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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 509

Pensions - Eligibility Service

FOR the purpose of repealing the provisions that define
"service" for purposes of eligibility in the Employees'
and Teachers' Pension Systems.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 114 and 143

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

114.

(1) Except as hereinafter provided, all service with
the State rendered by an employee on or after January 1,
1980 and before his retirement shall be eligibility service
for the purposes of this pension system. If an employee
completes at least 700 hours of service in any fiscal year,
he shall be credited for a full year of eligibility service.
Except for the prorating of hours worked in the first and
last years, if an employee completes less than 700 hours of
service in any fiscal year, he may not receive any
eligibility service credit for that year. There shall be a
break in service with respect to any fiscal year after the
year in which an employee first becomes employed during
which he does not complete more than 350 hours of service
with the State. Any service rendered before a break in
service that occurs before the year in which an employee
retires, dies, or otherwise terminates his employment or
becomes 62 years old may not be recognized as eligibility
service, until the employee completes 1 year of eligibility
service following the break in service. However, if an
employee who has not completed the eligibility requirements
for a vested retirement allowance incurs a break in service
in which the number of consecutive 1-year breaks in service
is at least equal to the aggregate number of years of
eligibility service rendered before the break in service,
excluding any years of eligibility service disregarded
because of any prior break in service, the service rendered
before the break in service may not be included in his
eligibility service. If an employee terminates his
employment and is reemployed after incurring a break in
service, his service before the break in service may not be
included in his eligibility service, except as provided in
this section.