(A) The county shall pay any elected judge of the circuit court for the sixth judicial circuit resident in the county, whose active service is or has been terminated, and who is or hereafter becomes entitled to a pension from the state under the provisions of any act of the General Assembly of Maryland, in addition to any such pension by the state, a pension to be paid by the county. Such pension shall be calculated on the amount of the county’s annual supplemental compensation, which was paid or is being paid to such judge on the date of the termination of his active service as a circuit court judge, and such pension shall be in the amount of 3% of such final annual county supplemental compensation multiplied by the number of years or fraction thereof of active service by appointment as well as by election, up to a maximum number of 20 years.
(B) In addition thereto, the spouse of every judge eligible for a pension under this section and enabling law who dies in active service shall be paid one-half of the pension to which such judge would have been entitled under this section and enabling law on the date of his death if he would have terminated his active service on such date. In order to be entitled to the pension provided by this section and enabling law, a spouse of a judge who dies during active service shall have been married to the judge for a period of not less than 3 years prior to such judge’s death, and in the case of a judge not in active service, not less than 3 years prior to the date of the termination of active service. A spouse who is entitled to a pension under the provisions of this section and enabling law shall be paid for the period of her natural life, unless such spouse remarries, in which event the pension is to cease and terminate.
(C) The county governing body shall levy annually upon the assessable property of the county a tax sufficient to pay the pensions provided for in this section and enabling law.
(1959 Code, § 30-8) (Ord. 14-23-678, 11-13-2014)