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office in the City of Baltimore for the purpose of examining
applicants at least once in every week, and at a specified
hour and day, and shall sit until all applicants shall be
examined, and in the event of inability to examine all the
applicants on the regular day of meeting, it shall continue
its sessions for each successive day until the same shall be
completed. The Board [shall] MAY visit and inspect the
running and management of all steam plants wherein the
engineers are required to be examined as hereinbefore
provided, [not less than once every six months,] and in the
event of their finding on such examination that the engineer
or engineers in charge of such plant or machinery are not
running and managing the same with proper skill and care, it
shall report the same to the State Board of Boiler
Inspectors for their action; and said Board of Examining
Engineers may enter all such premises and make the
examination herein provided for; and any owner of premises
who refuses to allow the members to enter and make such
examination shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be
punishable upon trial and conviction, as provided in Section
4-3.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three—fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved May 2, 1978.

CHAPTER 253
(Senate Bill 593)
AN ACT concerning

Mandatory Retirement

FOR the purpose of prohibiting any member of the Employees'

and Teachers' Retirement System of the State who is

not an elected or appointed official from being

required, as a condition of employment, to retire at or
before a specified age or after the completion of a

specified number of years of service; requiring the

Secretary of Personnel and the Superintendent of the
State Police to establish reasonable criteria and
standards of job performance to bo used for the purpose

of determining when employment of State employees

should be terminated; providing that if a certified

bargaining agent exists, the establishment of

retirement standards and criteria may be a subject of

collective bargaining; providing that this Act may not