HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     1475

(1)  Payment for time worked in excess of the
position's normal work week but not in excess of 40 hours shall
be made at the employee's usual hourly rate or rates.

(2)  Payment for time worked in excess of 40 hours in
any week shall be made at time and one-half the employee's
regular hourly rate. The regular hourly rate for the week is
determined by dividing the total regular pay for all hours worked
in the week by the total hours worked.

(3)  [Payment] FOR EMPLOYEES OF HOSPITALS AND

DOMICILIARY CARE FACILITIES FOR THE ILL, AGED, OR HANDICAPPED,

PAYMENT may be computed on the basis of an 80 hour biweekly
period in lieu of a 40-hour workweek. Payment shall then be made
at time and one-half the employee's regular rate for all hours
worked in excess of 80 hours in the biweekly period, or at time
and one-half the regular hourly rate for all hours worked in
excess of 8 hours each day, whichever is greater. The regular
hourly rate is determined as in paragraph (2), but used for the
2-week period. [This method of payment may not be used by
departments or units which operate on a 5-day work schedule.]

(b)  The Secretary of Personnel is authorized and empowered
to designate those bona fide administrative, executive, and
professional employees who shall not be eligible to receive
overtime compensation but who may be compensated by compensatory
time. The Secretary of Personnel is authorized and empowered to
adopt and promulgate reasonable regulations to prevent an abuse
of this section by the granting of unnecessary and unwarranted
overtime or by the failure to grant overtime compensation when
the employee is eligible to receive it under the provisions of
this section.

(c)  [Provided, however, that the THE provisions of this
section shall not apply to the law-enforcement personnel of the

Maryland Alcohol Tax Enforcement Unit; . [and provided further,

that the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section
shall not apply to the law-enforcement personnel and cadets of
the Maryland State Police or law-enforcement personnel of any

other State agency.]

(1)  AN AGENCY MAY ADOPT AN ALTERNATE WORK SCHEDULE
ALTERNATE WORK SCHEDULES AS PERMITTED BY THE FAIR LABOR
STANDARDS ACT FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING OVERTIME
COMPENSATION FOR ITS LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEES OR FIRE FIGHTERS.

(2)  A LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEE OF THE MARYLAND STATE
POLICE OR NATURAL RESOURCES POLICE WHO IS CALLED OUT TO DUTY ON A
REGULARLY SCHEDULED OFF-DUTY DAY OR DURING A REGULARLY SCHEDULED
ON-DUTY DAY AFTER GOING OFF-DUTY SHALL BE COMPENSATED AT ONE AND
ONE-HALF TIMES THE EMPLOYEE'S REGULAR HOURLY RATE. THIS PAYMENT
SHALL BE MADE FOR NOT LESS THAN FOUR HOURS TIME ON ANY DAY THE
EMPLOYEE IS CALLED OUT. A LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEE OF ANY OTHER
STATE AGENCY WHO IS CALLED OUT TO DUTY ON A REGULARLY SCHEDULED