WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 306

rate is determined as in paragraph (2), but used for the 2-week
period.

(B) A STATE EMPLOYEE WHO EARNS OVERTIME PAY SHALL RECEIVE
THAT OVERTIME PAY NO LATER THAN THE DAY OF PAYMENT OF THE 2ND PAY
PERIOD FOLLOWING THE PAY PERIOD DURING WHICH THE OVERTIME PAY IS
EARNED.

[(b)] (C) 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)] (D) 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.

(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] 4 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 off-duty day shall be compensated at one and one-half
times the employee's regular hourly rate for the time worked.

[(d)] (E) (1) Law enforcement employees and cadets of the
Maryland State Police who work in excess of their normal
[eight-hour] 8-HOUR daily workday and law enforcement employees
of any other State agency who work in excess of their normal
[eight-hour] 8-HOUR daily workday shall receive overtime
compensation at one and one-half times their respective hourly
wage rates.

(2) The maximum yearly overtime to be paid any [one]
1 employee of the Maryland State Police or the Department of
Natural Resources is as follows:

Cadet, Maryland State Police                                                Unlimited

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