HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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eligible to receive any salary increases or change in benefits
applicable after July 1, 1975 to all employees in the local
system. Any salary increases or change in benefits applicable to
less than all the employees in the local system which are
applicable . to such employees shall be effective for them only
upon approval of the increases or change in benefits by the
Secretary of Personnel. Any clerical personnel who elects to
remain in a local system shall be entitled to receive the
benefits of that system, and shall not share in any benefit of a
system provided for State employees.

(d)  All clerical personnel who on July 1, 1975 become
subject to any of the provisions of the State Merit System Law
under Article 64A of this Code shall become members of the
Employees' Retirement System on July 1, 1975 and shall be placed
in that position which is comparable or which most closely
compares with his former position, without further examination or
qualification, and without diminution or loss of any benefits to
which entitled prior to July 1, 1975. All clerical employees who
were members of a local actuarial system prior to becoming
subject to the State employees pension system under Article 73B
of this Code shall be credited with all prior service rendered by
them to the counties or Baltimore City to which they were
entitled prior to July 1, 1974 for purposes of retirement and
death benefits and rates of contribution under Article 73B. Any
clerical personnel who elects to transfer to the State shall
receive those benefits provided for by the State under Articles
64A and 73B and shall not share in any benefit of any system
provided for employees of any county or Baltimore City.

(e)  All clerical personnel who became so employed after
January 1, and prior to July 1, 1975, shall be transferred to and
become part of the State merit system under Article 64A and the
State employees pension system under Article 73B on July 1, 1975,
with all of the rights and benefits provided under subsection (d)
above.

(f)  With respect to every employee described in subsection
(a) who elects to remain under a county, city or municipal merit,
classification, leave, retirement or health system, the county,
city or municipality in question shall make whatever payments or
contributions are required to be made by the county, city or
municipality to or for the account or on the behalf of the
employee, and the State shall periodically reimburse the county,
city or municipality for any such payments made, provided that
payments or contributions made by the county, city or
municipality to the retirement or group insurance program of any
such employee shall not be deemed to be salary with respect to
the employee.

SECTION 18. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s) 252
of the Article 81 - Revenue and Taxes of the Annotated Code of
Maryland be repealed and reenacted, with amendments, and
transferred from the Annotated Code of Maryland to the Session