BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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department to submit to the board of trustees a statement
showing the name, title, compensation, duties, date of
birth, and length of service of each member and such
information regarding other employees in his department as
the board of trustees may require, [The board of trustees
shall then place each member in one of the following groups:

Group 1. Clerical, administrative, professional and
technical workers engaged in duties requiring principally
mental exertion.

Group 2. Laborers, mechanics and other workers
engaged in duties requiring principally physical exertion.

Any other group of not less than two hundred and fifty
persons which may be hereafter recommended by the actuary on
the basis of service and mortality experience and approved
by the board of trustees, to cover all or part of any group
or groups previously created or any additional classes of
employees.]

[(8)] (5) Any "additional employee" of the Maryland
Racing Commission whose salary payments from the State are
subject to reimbursement to the State by licensees of the
Racing Commission under Article 78B of the Code, may become
a member of the retirement system as a condition of
employment, subject to his eligibility for membership being
determined by the board of trustees of the retirement
system. Such employee may receive credit for service
performed with the Commission prior to July 1, 1974, if he
pays both his and the employer's share of contributions to
the retirement system, together with regular interest
thereon. From and after July 1, 1974, the employer's share
of the contribution shall be an obligation of the race
tracks of the State and shall be paid in the manner as the
salary payments under Article' 78B are made-

[(9)] (6) (a) All full—time and part—time permanent
employees of the boards of supervisors of elections of the
counties and in Baltimore City shall become members of the
Employees' Retirement System of the State of Maryland as a
condition of employment, except those board employees who
have elected to remain in the local merit system under the
provisions of § 9G of Article 64A of this Code. Employees
who become members of the Employees' Retirement System under
this subsection shall not receive credit for any service
performed with the county or Baltimore City prior to January
1, 1972, except for credit transferred under §§ 31 through
34 of this article.

(b)    The county, or Baltimore City, where the
member is employed, shall pay to the Employees' Retirement
System the contributions required to be made by the State on
behalf of the service of the member.

(c)    The county, or Baltimore City, shall deduct
the appropriate contribution required to be made by the
member on account of the service from the compensation