HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(8) (a) Any person who is a member of the
retirement system, established by this subtitle, on December
31, 1979 shall continue to be a member unless on January 1,
1980 or the first day of any month thereafter he becomes a
member of the Pension System for Employees of the State of
Maryland by filing with the board of trustees, at least 90
days before, on the form the board requires an executed
waiver of all benefits which might inure to him under this
retirement system.

(b) Any person who is not a member of the
retirement system, established under; this article, on
December 31, 1979 or who becomes an employee on or after
that date may not be eligible for membership in this
retirement system.

[(c) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of this
subsection do not apply to any judge as defined in subtitle
"Pensions of Judges and Their Surviving Spouses" in this
article.]

11.

(1) (a) Any member may retire upon written application
to the board of trustees setting forth at what time he
desires to be retired, provided that such member at the time
so specified for his retirement shall have attained the age
of sixty (60) or shall have rendered twenty-five (25) years
of creditable service as an employee [and notwithstanding
that during such period of notification he may have
separated from service].

56.

[(c) A judge who retires and accepts the pension
provided by this subtitle may not, thereafter, engage in the
practice of law for compensation; but this prohibition does
not apply to a former judge who has attained the age of 70
years and received less than $3,500 per annum in pension as
provided by this subtitle, and who has not voluntarily
retired.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s)
56(d) through (h), respectively, of Article 73B - Pensions,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland be renumbered to be
Section(s) 56(c) through (g), respectively.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)
of the Annotated Code of Maryland read(s) as follows:

Article 73B - Pensions