2192                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 711

preceding consecutive years or has attained the age of
seventy years while so employed, shall be entitled to
retirement with a salary of [$6,000] $9,000 $7,500 per
annum[; provided, however, such retirement]. RETIREMENT
shall be mandatory at age seventy years.

(b)        Every court reporter receiving a retirement
salary on July 1, 1969, who was retired upon attainment of
sixty or more years of age, and the completion of
twenty-five consecutive years of service, shall be entitled
to a retirement salary of [$6,000] $9,000 $7,500 per annum.

(c)        Retirement salaries paid under subsections (a)
and (b) of this Section shall not be diminished by reason of
the retired reporter's having any earned income.

(d)        No reporter appointed after January 1, 1956,
shall be entitled to any retirement salary under this
Section.

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(a) Every official court reporter who, on July 1,
1969, is receiving a retirement salary under the provisions
of this subtitle by reason of physical or mental incapacity
to perform the duties of his position, shall thereafter be
entitled to a retirement salary of [$6,000] $9,000 $7,500
per annum when eligible therefor under subsection (c) of
this Section.

(b) Any official court reporter appointed prior to
January 1, 19 56, who, having served less than twenty—five
preceding consecutive years and being under seventy years of
age, shall become physically or mentally incapable of
performing the duties of that position by reason of ailments
or accidents not resulting from his own misconduct, shall be
entitled during the period of such incapacity to a
retirement salary of [$6,000] $9,000 $7,500 per annum.

(c)    Every court reporter otherwise entitled to a
retirement salary under subsections (a) or (b) above, shall
receive such salary only when such retired reporter's earned
income is less than [$4,000] $9,000 per annum; and the
amount of such retirement salary shall be the difference
between the retired reporter's earned income and the
[$4,000]$9,000 maximum provided herein. In order to
claim a retirement salary under this Section, each court
reporter retired by reason of incapacity shall, on January
1st of each year, file with the Administrator of the Supreme
Bench a statement showing (1) his earned income for the
previous year, and (2) his anticipated earnings for the
ensuing year, together with a medical statement satisfactory
to the Medical Service Division of the Baltimore City Civil
Service Commission that he remains incapable of performing
the duties of a court reporter.

(d)    No reporter appointed after January 1, 1956,
shall be entitled to a retirement salary under this Section.