818                                     LAWS OF MARYLAND                               Ch. 82

(House Bill 513)

AN ACT concerning

Pensions - Correctional Officers

FOR the purpose of removing duplicative language from the
Annotated Code of Maryland pertaining to pension
benefits for correctional officers.

BY repealing

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 11(20)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

BY renumbering

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 11(21)

to be Section 11(20)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 73B - Pensions

11.

[(20) (a) Any correctional officer serving in any of
the first six job classifications who has completed 20 years
of creditable service and who has served as a correctional
officer in one of these classifications for five or more
years immediately preceding retirement may retire and
receive a retirement allowance equal to 1/55 of his average
final compensation multiplied by the number of years of
service. Retirement for a correctional officer in these
classifications is mandatory when he attains the age of 60
years; however, year-to-year extensions may be permitted
beyond age 60 with the approval of the Commissioner of
Correction for correctional officers of the Division of
Correction and the Director of Patuxent Institution for
correctional officers of that Institution.

(b) The benefits for ordinary disability for any
correctional officer in these classifications, who has
served as a correctional officer in one of these
classifications for five years immediately preceding
retirement, shall be computed in the manner described in the
subsection. The benefit for accidental disability shall be
computed as provided by subsection (7) of this section. In
cases of vested retirement allowance as provided under