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THE OFFICIAL      MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF THE COUNTY

COMMISSIONERS      AND THE OFFICIAL VOTE RECORDED IN THOSE
MINUTES.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved April 1, 1976.

CHAPTER 60
(Senate Bill 989)

AN ACT concerning

Charles County - Pensions

FOR the purpose of restricting the amounts of certain
pensions which may be paid by Charles County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 58A(b)

Article 9 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1969 Edition and 1975 Supplement, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY mHE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 58A(b) of the Public Local Laws of
Charles County being Article 9 of the Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1969 Edition and 1975 Supplement, as
amended) be and it is hereby repealed and reenacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 9

58A.

(b) Such persons who have held one or more of the
elected public offices of Charles County enumerated in
subsection (a) of this section for a combined total of
four full terms shall be entitled to an annual retirement
salary in an amount equal to the total of five percent
(5%) of each of the highest annual salaries received by
the person for each year he held office; provided,
however, the maximum annual retirement salary shall not
exceed eighty percent (80%) of the highest annual salary
the person received while holding one of those offices,
AND PROVIDED FURTHER THAT THE AMOUNT OF ANY PENSION BEING
PAID TO A PERSON BY REASON OF RETIREMENT FROM EMPLOYMENT
WITH THE COUNTY SHALL BE SUBTRACTED FROM ANY RETIREMENT
SALARY PAYABLE UNDER THIS SECTION.