BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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payment, within such period of time as may be determined by
the board of trustees, the contributions, with interest,
which he would have paid had he been a member of the
retirement system but withdrew. Provided, however, that any
such member may waive the payment of any or all such
contributions, in which case upon retirement any service
retirement allowance, any ordinary disability retirement
allowance or any allowance due to nonreappointment or
nonreelection to any office payable to such official, shall
be reduced by the actuarial equivalent of those
contributions which be had not paid, with interest to date
of retirement.

(C)    Provided further that any desk officer or
employee of either house of the General Assembly, who was
receiving an annual salary as compensation for such
employment as of February 1, 1961, and who previously served
as a desk officer or employee of either house of the General
Assembly and received per diem compensation for such
previous service, shall be entitled to prior service credit
equal to four years for any four—year term of a General
Assembly during which such previous service was rendered.

(D)    Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
article, any member of the retirement system who had
previously served as an elected or appointed official of the
State or a participating municipality, shall be entitled to
receive credit for the period of such creditable service
upon making in a single payment, within such period of time
as may be determined by the board of trustees, the
contributions, with interest, which the board deems
appropriate. For the purpose of this subsection, creditable
service includes service rendered prior to the date of
establishment of the retirement system, and a "year of
service" shall mean a year or any portion thereof, if the
portion of the year served is at least equal to the number
of days of the regular session of the General Assembly for
that year in which service credit is requested.

(E)    [At the time of retirement as a judge in one of
the listed courts, the member is eligible to receive
benefits from both the retirement system and the Judges'
Pension System.] Upon retirement, no salaried State
employee, judge, legislator, or executive official may
receive benefits under more than one pension system for the
same period of service.

[(5a)] (F) Notwithstanding any provision of general or

local law to the contrary, any member of a local retirement
system which is operated on an actuarial basis, as described
in § 31 of this article, who is on leave of absence without
pay from employment with a political subdivision of the
State of Maryland in order to serve as a member of the
General Assembly shall, upon application, receive service
credit in the local retirement system for the period of such
absence required for service in the General Assembly. In
order to receive the benefit of the service credits provided
under this subsection the member shall contribute into the