HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(a) In this subtitle the following words have the
meaning indicated.

(b) "Director" means the director of the personnel
merit system.

(c) "Employee" means a person who is employed in a

position that is subject to the personnel merit system.

(d) "Personnel merit system" means the personnel merit
system for the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore City, as created and provided for under this
subtitle.

(E) "STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM" MEANS THE STATE

EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM UNDER ARTICLE 73B OF THE CODE.

(F) "STATE PENSION SYSTEM" MEANS THE PENSION SYSTEM
FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE UNDER ARTICLE 73B OF THE CODE.

2-5A-06.

(A) The following positions shall be subject to the
personnel merit system:

(1)  Any position to which an appointment by a
clerk of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City is authorized
on or before June 30, 1982;

(2)  Any position to which an appointment by a
judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City is authorized
on or before June 30, 1982, and that was assigned to any of
the following:

(i) The civil assignment commissioner's
office;

(ii) The jury commissioner's office;

(iii) The criminal assignment
commissioner's office;

(iv) The domestic relations division; or

(v) The juvenile court clerk's office;

(3)  The six positions of deputy clerk of the
proposed Circuit Court for Baltimore City that are created
for the purpose of transferring the clerks of the several
courts of the Supreme Bench to the office of the clerk of
the Circuit Court for Baltimore City;

(4)  68 positions of the pre-trial release
services division of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City