FOR the purpose of authorizing the Garrett County Office of for Children, Youth and
Families to participate in the Employees' Pension System as a participating
governmental unit; designating the Board of County Commissioners for Garrett
County as the legislative body for purposes of participation in the Employees'
Pension System; defining certain terms; and generally relating to the
participation of the Garrett County Office of for Children, Youth and Families in
the Employees' Pension System.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Personnel and Pensions
Section 31-101(g) and 31-102(2)(xxi) and (xxii)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1997 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - State Personnel and Pensions
Section 31-102(2)(xxiii)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1997 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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

Article - State Personnel and Pensions

31-101.

(g) (1) "Legislative body" means the entity with legislative authority or
control over an eligible governmental unit.

(2) "Legislative body" includes:

(i) a board of county commissioners;

(ii) a county council;

(iii) the legislative body of a municipal corporation;

(iv) for a community action agency, a governing body as defined in
Article 83B, § 12-101 of the Code;

(v) for an agency on aging:

1. the legislative body of the county that the agency on aging

represents; or

2. for an area agency on aging that represents more than one
county, the legislative body of each of the counties included in the jurisdiction of the
area agency on aging; [and]

(vi) for the University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, the
Board of Directors of the corporation; AND