Ch. 135

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 135

(Senate Bill 95)

AN ACT concerning

Merit System - Accumulated Leave

FOR the purpose of altering the maximum number of days for which
certain State employees may be compensated on termination of
employment.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 64A - Merit System

Section 37(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

Preamble

WHEREAS, During the 1986 Session of the General Assembly,
legislation was enacted to increase the number of annual leave
days' that a State employee may accumulate from 35 to 45; and

WHEREAS, The number of leave days for which an employee may
be compensated when the employee terminates State service
previously had equaled the number of annual leave days that an
employee may accumulate; and

WHEREAS, The Office of the Attorney General of the State of
Maryland, in a recent advice of counsel letter stated that, the
intent of the Legislature was to sanction compensation for up to
45 working days of accumulated leave for separated employees; and

WHEREAS, It is the desire of the General Assembly that the
number of annual leave days for which a State employee may be
compensated when the employee terminates State service be equal
to the number of annual leave days that a State employee may
accumulate; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 64A - Merit System

37.

(c) Whenever any classified employee is dismissed from the
classified service for any cause involving moral turpitude, the
employee shall forfeit all unused vacation time and compensation
for all unused vacation leave. Whenever the service of any
classified employee is terminated within six months from the date

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