WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 249

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(a)  The Superintendent of the Maryland State Police shall
develop a salary plan for police employees which shall include
such ranks and grades within ranks as he deems appropriate. The
plan shall be effective upon approval by the Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services if sufficient funds therefor are
included in the State budget AND THE PLAN HAS BEEN APPROVED BY
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AS PART OF THE ANNUAL SALARY REVIEW (ASR).
No [person who is a] police employee [on July 1, 1974,] shall be
demoted or otherwise affected in rank, pay or status except for
cause as hereinbefore required[; and all such police employees
shall continue in the rank and salary step which they then hold,
that is to say: troopers are within rank I; troopers first class
within rank II; corporals within rank III; sergeants within rank
IV; first sergeants, detective sergeants, and sergeants mechanic
within rank V; second lieutenants and the examining physician
within rank VI; first lieutenants within rank VII; captains
within rank VIII; majors within rank IX; and lieutenant colonels
within rank X]. A POLICE EMPLOYEE WHO HOLDS A RANK DETERMINED BY
THE SUPERINTENDENT TO BE OBSOLETE SHALL REMAIN IN THE RANK UNTIL
PROMOTED, DEMOTED, RETIRED, OR OTHERWISE TERMINATED.

(b)  A police employee shall receive the salary for the next
highest step within his rank upon each anniversary date.
"Anniversary date" means (1) July first, as to all persons who
were police employees on July 1, 1967, or (2) the date of
employment as to all other persons. Upon promotion, a police
employee shall be entitled to the pay specified for the new rank
in the same step as that occupied before promotion, except that
if such step is higher than that held by any employee who (1) is
already in the rank and (2) has equal or higher total service
time, a police employee upon promotion shall be entitled only to
the pay specified for the new rank in the step next lower than
that occupied before promotion.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of
Maryland read as follows:

Article 100 - Work, Labor and Employment

76.

(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the
law enforcement personnel of the Maryland Alcohol and Tobacco Tax
Enforcement Unit.

(1) An agency may adopt 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.

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