BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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St. Mary's County
Washington County
Wicomico County
Worcester County,]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 442

(Senate Bill 229)

AN ACT concerning

State Employees — Accumulated Leave

FOR the purpose of increasing the maximum accumulation of
unused annual leave permitted for purposes of
compensation on termination of State employment.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 64A - Merit System

Section 37(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 64A - Merit System

37.

(b) Whenever any classified employee is dismissed
from the classified service for any cause involving moral
turpitude, the employee shall forfeit all unused vacation
time and compensation for all unused vacation leave-
Whenever the service of any classified employee is
terminated within six months from the date of his original
appointment to the classified service, the employee is not
entitled to any vacation leave or compensation for vacation
leave. Subject to the exceptions of this subsection and
excluding employees covered under collective bargaining
agreements, every classified employee, unclassified
employee, or appointed official, upon the termination of his