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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 508

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88B - State Police

Section 53(1)(a), (8), and (11)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 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

1.

The following words and phrases as used in this
article, unless a different meaning is plainly required by
the context, shall have the following meanings:

(3) "Employee" shall mean any regular classified
or unclassified officer or employee of the State for whom
compensation is provided for by the State appropriation, or
whose compensation is paid from State funds, including all
regular employees of the State Highway Administration,
whether classified or unclassified and whether paid on an
annual, daily or hourly basis, and shall expressly include
those engaged in work on the maintenance of county roads
under the supervision of the State Highway Administration.
The term "employee" shall include any appointed or elected
employee of the State, and any clerk of any court and
register of wills, and shall include the Sheriff of
Baltimore City and the employees of his office. It shall
exclude any person who is a member of or eligible to
membership in the Teachers' Retirement System of the State
of Maryland or of the State Police [Pension Fund] RETIREMENT
SYSTEM or any judge of the circuit courts. Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Court of
Special Appeals, and District Courts or any commissioner of
the Workmen's Compensation Commission, and any class of
employees whose compensation is only partly paid by the
State or who are serving on a temporary basis. The term
"employee" also shall include any person who was regularly
employed by Miners' Hospital in Frostburg and who was a
member of the retirement system at the time it was
transferred from State ownership, and who continues in
employment at the hospital after the transfer, so long as
all contributions to the retirement system which are
required from both employees and employer are made when and
as payable. From and after the time the hospital is
transferred from State ownership, the State no longer has
the responsibility of paying the employer's share of the