1788

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 550

local retirement system, at his usual rate of contribution
based upon the salary of the position from which he is on
leave without pay to serve as a member of the General
Assembly. It shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the
State to make appropriate certifications as to the service
credits to which such members shall be entitled. The
application of this subsection shall be limited to persons
who are members of the General Assembly from and after
January 15, 1963.

[(6) Should any member in any period of six
consecutive years after last becoming a member be absent
from service more than two years, or should he withdraw all
or part of his accumulated contributions, or should be
become a beneficiary or die, he shall thereupon cease to be
a member; provided, however, that any member who was absent
from service for more than two years on account of the
transfer or lease to the United States of the facility or
property where said member was employed and who continued to
work at the same place as an employee of the United States
until the return of the property to the State after the war,
when he again became an employee of the State, shall be
entitled to credit for all service as an employee of the
State before he became an employee of the United States as
hereinbefore described and his prior service certificate
shall again become effective as if he had not ceased to be
an employee of the State. However, any such person who has
withdrawn his accumulated contributions (other than one who
has become a beneficiary or died) may subsequently redeposit
in the retirement system the amount of accumulated
contributions previously withdrawn, with interest to the
date of redeposit, and regain previous service credit with
the condition, however, that he may not retire within three
years after the date of reentry in the retirement system.

Any member who had terminated membership in the
Teachers' Retirement System or the State Police Retirement
System may and upon deposit into the Employees' Retirement
System of the accumulated contributions previously withdrawn
from the Teachers' System or the State Police System, with
interest to date of deposit, receive credit in the
Employees' System for the service that had previously been
terminated with the condition, however, that he may not
retire within three years after the date of entry in the
Employees' Retirement System. ]

(3) MEMBERSHIP CEASES IF THE MEMBER:

(A) IS ABSENT FROM SERVICE FOR MORE THAN 2

YEARS;

(B)    WITHDRAWS HIS ACCUMULATED CONTRIBUTIONS;

(C)    BECOMES A BENEFICIARY; OR

(D)    DIES.

[(7)] (4)

It shall be the duty of the head of each