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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 10

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

3.

(b) The State Administration may develop and implement an
automated statewide income maintenance system and related
administrative procedures to achieve effectively and efficiently
the purposes of this title. In the implementation of the system,
the State Administration may assume income maintenance functions
that this article otherwise assigns to local units only to the
extent necessary for efficient implementation of the system.
Such changes in assignments and performance of functions will be
effected by executive order, promulgated by the Governor in
accordance with [§ 15CB of Article 41] TITLE 3, SUBTITLE 4 OF THE
STATE GOVERNMENT ARTICLE.

Article 88B - State Police

31.

(a) Whenever any of the employees of the Department of
Maryland State Police, who have elected not to become members of
the State Police Retirement System of the State of Maryland, and
any of the license examiners of the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles shall have given meritorious service as an employee for
a period of fifteen continuous years, and shall have reached the
age of 55 years, excepting the physician of the Department who
shall have reached the age of 65 years, the employees shall be
eligible for retirement forthwith upon his or her voluntary
application or may be retired by the Superintendent of the
Department of Maryland State Police. These employees shall retire
forthwith upon reaching the age of 64, excepting the physician of
the Department who shall be retired forthwith upon reaching the
age of 70. In all retirements under the provisions of this
section the employee in question shall be paid during the
remainder of his or her natural life a salary or pension, payable
monthly, equal to fifty percent (50%) of his or her annual
remuneration, the annual remuneration to be taken as of the year
immediately preceding the granting of his or her application for
retirement; provided, however, that any employee who is retired
and is receiving retirement benefits under the provisions of this
[section and § 31A] SUBTITLE and such benefits in the aggregate
are less than $200.00 per month, shall receive an additional sum
so that the amount received as benefit is in no event less than
$200.00. Any employee who is retired and who is receiving
retirement benefits under the provisions of this section and is
also receiving benefits from the federal old age and survivors
insurance system, when the benefits in the aggregate are less
than $200.00 per month shall receive an additional sum equal to
the difference. No money payable under this subtitle shall, prior
to issuance and delivery of the warrant or voucher therefor, be
capable of being assigned, charged or taken in execution or
attachment. All employees subject to the provisions of this
subtitle shall contribute to the pension fund, hereinafter
provided for, a sum equal to the contribution which the employees