BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                        2417

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 29, 1978.

CHAPTER 825

(Senate Bill 813)

AN ACT concerning

State Police — Salary Ceiling

FOR the purpose of altering the maximum amount of yearly
overtime that may be paid to certain law-enforcement
employees; and clarifying language and structure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 10 0 - Work, Labor and Employment

Section 76(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1964 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 100 - Work, Labor and Employment

76.

(d) (1) Law-enforcement employees of the Maryland
State Police who work in excess of their normal eight hour
daily work day, and law-enforcement employees of the
Department of Natural Resources who work in excess of their
normal eight hour daily work day shall receive overtime
compensation which shall be computed by dividing the daily
rate of compensation by the number of hours in the normal
daily work day and multiplying the resulting quotient by one
and one—half times the number of hours worked in excess of
the normal daily work day. Law—enforcement employees of the
Maryland State Police and the Department of Natural
Resources who are called out to duty during a regularly
scheduled off-duty day and work one or more hours shall
receive overtime compensation which shall be computed by
dividing the daily rate of compensation by the number of
hours in the normal daily work day and multiplying the
resulting quotient by one and one—half times the number of
hours worked during the off-duty day.

(2) The maximum yearly overtime to be paid any
one employee is as follows: