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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 345

(c)  Retirement salaries paid under subsections (a) and (b)
of this section shall not be diminished by reason of the retired
reporter's having any earned income.

(d)  No reporter appointed after January 1, 1956, shall be
entitled to any retirement salary under this section.

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(a)  Every official court reporter who, on July 1, 1969, is
receiving a retirement salary under the provisions of this
subtitle by reason of physical or mental incapacity to perform
the duties of his OR HER position, shall thereafter be entitled
to a retirement salary of $8,000 per [annum] YEAR when eligible
therefor under subsection (c) of this section.

(b)  Any official court reporter appointed prior to January
1, 1956, who, having served less than twenty-five preceding
consecutive years and being under seventy years of age, shall
become physically or mentally incapable of performing the duties
of that position by reason of ailments or accidents not resulting
from [his] THE REPORTER'S own misconduct, shall be entitled
during the period of such incapacity to a retirement salary of
$8,000 per [annum] YEAR.

(c)  Every court reporter otherwise entitled to a retirement
salary under subsections (a) or (b) above, shall receive such
salary only when such retired reporter's earned income is less
than $4,000 per [annum] YEAR; and the amount of such retirement
salary shall be the difference between the retired reporter's
earned income and the $4,000 maximum provided herein. In order
to claim a retirement salary under this Section, each court
reporter retired by reason of incapacity shall, on January 1st of
each year, file with the Administrator of the [Supreme Bench]
CIRCUIT COURT FOR BALTIMORE CITY a statement showing (1) [his]
THE REPORTER'S earned income for the previous year, and (2) [his]
THE REPORTER'S anticipated earnings for the ensuing year,
together with a medical statement satisfactory to the Medical
Service Division of the Baltimore City Civil Service Commission
that [he] THE REPORTER remains incapable of performing the duties
of a court reporter.

(d)  No reporter appointed after January 1, 1956, shall be
entitled to a retirement salary under this Section.

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The eligibility of any bailiff or COURT reporter for a
retirement salary under this subtitle shall be evidenced by a
certificate of the Administrator of the [Supreme Bench] CIRCUIT
COURT FOR BALTIMORE CITY directed to the Board of Estimates, and
all retirement salaries shall be paid in the same manner as the
salaries of active bailiffs and COURT reporters.

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