1342                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND                                    Ch. 113

Approved May 4, 1982.

CHAPTER 114

(Senate Bill 133)

AN ACT concerning

Pensions - Former Judges of People's Court of
Montgomery County

FOR the purpose of altering the amounts that a former judge
or the spouse of a former judge of the People's Court
of Montgomery County may receive under the Judges'
Pension System; and correcting an error.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 63(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

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

Article 73B - Pensions

63.

(b) (1) Each full-time judge of the People's Court of
Montgomery County, including a judge who was continued in
office as a judge of the District Court pursuant to Article
IV, § 41-I(g) of the Constitution, shall be paid, after the
termination of active service, if he is then at least

sixty-two.....years of age, or when he becomes sixty-two years

of age or upon application and proof by the judge before he
becomes sixty-two years of age, to the County Council, that
he is totally disabled from performing his duties by reason
of his mental or physical health, a pension or salary in an
amount equal to sixty percent (60%) of his maximum salary,
OR 60 PERCENT OF THE SALARY OF A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE,
WHICHEVER IS GREATER or one sixteenth (1/16) of [that]
EITHER amount for each year of service, or a pro rata share
to reflect less than a full year of service, if he has
served less than sixteen years as a full-time judge of the
People's Court or trial magistrate court or magistrate for
juvenile causes for Montgomery County, provided, however,
that no person serving less than twelve months as a judge
under this subsection shall receive a pension or salary