HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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AN ACT concerning

Pensions - Correctional Officers

FOR the purpose of altering the age for mandatory retirement
for correctional officers under the Correctional
Officers' Retirement System.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 156(a)

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

156.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
article, any correctional officer serving in any of the
first six job classifications who has completed 20 years of
creditable service and who has served as a correctional
officer in one of these classifications for at least 5 years
immediately before retirement may retire and receive a
retirement allowance that is equal to 1/55 of his average
final compensation multiplied by the number of years of
service. Retirement for a correctional officer in these
classifications is mandatory when he is [60] 62 years old;
however, year-to-year extensions may be permitted beyond age
[60] 62 with the approval of:

(i) The Commissioner of Correction for
correctional officers of the Division of Correction; and

(ii) The Director of Patuxent Institution for
correctional officers of that institution.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved June 1, 1982.

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