2508                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 480

1.

The following words and phrases as used in this article,
unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context,
shall have the following meanings:

(3) "Employee" shall mean any regular classified or
unclassified officer or employee of the State for whom
compensation is provided for by the State appropriation, or whose
compensation is paid from State funds, including all regular
employees of the State Highway Administration, whether classified
or unclassified and whether paid on an annual, daily or hourly
basis, and shall expressly include those engaged in work on the
maintenance of county roads under the supervision of the State
Highway Administration. The term "employee" shall include any
appointed or elected employee of the State, and any clerk of any
court and register of wills, and shall include the Sheriff of
Baltimore City and the employees of his office. It shall exclude
any person who is a member of or eligible to membership in the
Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Maryland or of the
State Police Retirement System or any judge of the circuit
courts. Court of Appeals of Maryland, Court of Special Appeals,
and District Courts or any commissioner of the Workmen's
Compensation Commission, and any class of employees whose
compensation is only partly paid by the State or who are serving
on a temporary basis. The term "employee" also shall include any
person who was regularly employed by Miners' Hospital in
Frostburg and who was a member of the retirement system at the
time it was transferred from State ownership, and who continues
in employment at the hospital after the transfer, so long as all
contributions to the retirement system which are required from
both employees and employer are made when and as payable. From
and after the time the hospital is transferred from State
ownership, the State no longer has the responsibility of paying
the employer's share of the contributions. The term "employee"
also shall, on and after June 1, 1961, include any person who is
regularly employed by the State Military Department as a National
Guard technician, although paid by or from federal appropriated
funds, provided the employer's contribution to the retirement
system, when and as payable, shall be made by the United States,
or otherwise, and provided the State shall not be responsible for
payment of such employer's contribution. The term "employee"
also includes all the several classes of assessors, including
supervisors and assistants, for whom the State pays a portion of
annual salary under the provisions of [the] FORMER subtitle
"State Department of Assessments and Taxation" in Article 81 of

this Code, NOW SECTION 17 OF CHAPTER ____ OF THE ACTS OF 1985;

but the term "employee" does not include any such assessor who is
a member of a retirement or pension system operated by a
political subdivision of this State. The term "employee" also
includes regular and full-time staff members of the Commission to
Revise the Annotated Code and of any successor agency or
agencies. In all cases of doubt, the board of trustees, provided
for in § 12 of this article, shall determine whether any person
is an employee as defined in this article, irrespective of the