1912

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 610

employees who are admitted as provided in § 22 of this
article shall be optional with such officers and employees
in the service on the date the approval is given and any
such officer or employee who elects to join the [said]
retirement system [within one calendar year thereafter,
shall be] IS entitled to [a] prior service [certificate
covering full] credit for service rendered prior to date of
approval. Any person who was an officer or employee of any
such municipal corporation before or during World War II and
who left his position to [service] SERVE in military service
therein, and who later reentered the employment of that or
another municipal corporation within two years from the date
of his discharge from military service, shall be entitled to
prior service credit for any part of the period of such
military service not otherwise credited and allowable under
the provisions of this article; and the expense of allowing
such prior service credit shall be borne by the municipal
corporation with which he is serving on June 1, 1955.

27A.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
article, if any officer or employee of a participating
municipal corporation, while being a member of the State
Employees' Retirement System, shall vacate his position by
reason of the termination of his tenure by act of the
General Assembly or by reason of the abolition of his job or
position by act of the legislative body of the participating
municipal corporation after said person has twenty years of
creditable service, regardless of age, he may elect to
receive the allowance for service retirement in lieu of the
withdrawal of his accumulated contributions. The board of
trustees shall include any additional amount required to pay
such pension in the amount certified to the chief fiscal
officer of the participating municipal corporation as
provided by § 26 of this article. Should such beneficiary
be appointed or elected to any office, the salary or
compensation of which is paid by the State or by a
participating municipal corporation, his retirement
allowance shall cease, and he may again become a member of
the retirement system and shall contribute thereafter at the
same rate he paid prior to his retirement. Any prior
service [certificate] CREDIT on the basis of which his
service was computed at the time of his retirement shall be
restored to full force and effect, and in addition upon his
subsequent retirement he shall be credited with all his
service as a member, provided his pension upon such
subsequent retirement shall not exceed the pension he was
receiving prior to restoration plus such pension as may have
accrued on account of his membership service after
restoration- The payment of any such pension and the
continued payment of any such pension shall be contingent on
the payment annually by the State of Maryland or the
participating municipal corporation, as the case may be, of
the additional amount so required to meet the current
disbursements of such pension.