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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 625

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 64A - Merit System

35.

(A)  [An employee in a position that is] EMPLOYEES WHO
ARE IN POSITIONS THAT ARE to be abolished, discontinued, or
vacated, because of change in departmental organization, or
through stoppage or lack of work, shall- be laid off [and his
name placed, in the order provided in the rules of the
Secretary of Personnel, on the eligible list for the class
of the position from which he was laid off].

(B)  EXCEPT FOR FACULTY AND OTHER UNCLASSIFIED
EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND
THEIR GOVERNING BOARDS, THE SECRETARY OF PERSONNEL SHALL
ESTABLISH UNIFORM PROCEDURES AMONG STATE AGENCIES, BY RULE
AND REGULATION, FOR:

(1) THE LAYOFF OF CLASSIFIED AND UNCLASSIFIED
STATE EMPLOYEES; AND

(1) THE LAYOFF OF STATE EMPLOYEES, REGARDLESS OF
EMPLOYMENT STATUS; AND

(2)  THE REINSTATEMENT OF LAID OFF CLASSIFIED AND
UNCLASSIFIED STATE EMPLOYEES TO COMPARABLE OCCUPATIONAL
POSITIONS IN STATE EMPLOYMENT.

(C) RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE SECRETARY
PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE:

(1) AN ORDER OF LAYOFF DETERMINED BY SENIORITY
POINTS, INCLUDING CREDIT FOR:

(I) TOTAL STATE SERVICE;

(II) SERVICE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT WHERE
THE LAYOFF IS TO OCCUR; AND

(III) SERVICE IN THE JOB CLASSIFICATION
AND ITS JOB SERIES, AS DEFINED BY THE SECRETARY, WHERE THE
LAYOFF IS TO OCCUR.

(2) A PROVISION THAT AN EMPLOYEE BEING LAID OFF
MAY DISPLACE ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WITH THE LEAST SENIORITY IN
THE SAME JOB CLASSIFICATION OR JOB SERIES, OR ANY OTHER JOB
CLASSIFICATION IN WHICH THE EMPLOYEE BEING LAID OFF