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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That if any
provision of this Act or the application thereof to any
person or circumstance is held invalid for any reason, the
invalidity shall not affect the other provisions or any
other application of this Act which can be given effect
without the invalid provisions or application, and to this
end all the provisions of this Act are declared to be
severable.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 12, 1981.

CHAPTER 268

(Senate Bill 239)

AN ACT concerning

Pensions - Election of Benefits

FOR the purpose of removing references to the death of a

member of certain pension systems as related to

election of benefits payable on his account; and
correcting language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 73B - Pensions

Section ll(ll)(a)(i), 86(8)(a)(i), 117(12)(a), and

145(12)(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1978 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88B - State Police

Section 53(11)(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1980 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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.