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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 363

(House Bill 460)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Environmental Service - Employee Benefits

FOR the purpose of treating the Maryland Environmental
Service as a municipal corporation for purposes of the
Employees' Retirement System and Employees' Pension
System; and specifying the application of this Act.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 21(b) and 130(2)

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

21.

(b) (1) "Municipal corporation" means county,
incorporated town or municipality or special taxing area or
other political subdivision of the State, including any
public library association or organization and any fire
department receiving part or all of its funds from or
through any such county, town, municipality, special taxing
area or other political subdivision of the State, and also
including any board or commission created by an act of the
General Assembly for public purpose and not for the profit
of any private person or corporation. If a municipal
corporation ceases to meet the definition of "municipal
corporation" by virtue of any public general or public local
law, any employee thereof who has been a member of the
retirement system may continue membership in the system at
the employee's election if the employer's contribution, as
required herein, continues to be made pursuant to this
article.

(2) For the purpose of participation in the
Employees' Retirement System the following entities each
shall be considered to be a municipal corporation:

(i) The Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin[.];

(ii) A cooperative library commission[.];