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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 13 – Orphans’ Court">
  <section prefix="§" num="13-1" heading="Bailiffs: compensation; retirement.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Compensation.">The Bailiff of the said Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City shall receive a salary of not less than $4,500.00 nor more than $5,250.00 per annum, payable in monthly installments at the end of each and every month by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, said salary to be determined and certified to by the Judges of the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Retirement.">From and after July 1, 1965, whenever any bailiff has served for at least ten (10) preceding consecutive years or whenever at any time any bailiff becomes physically or mentally incapacitated from performing his duties as a bailiff from disease or accident not resulting from his own misconduct, he is entitled to be retired and to receive a pension of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per annum.
No bailiff may be retired unless a certificate is approved by the Orphans’ Court and presented to the Treasurer of Baltimore City &lt;em&gt;{City Finance Director}&lt;/em&gt;, stating that the bailiff is entitled to retirement under the provisions of &lt;cite data-path="13|§13-1"&gt;this section&lt;/cite&gt;.
Nothing in this subsection shall relate to or affect the retirement of any bailiff who retired or who left his position under &lt;cite data-path="13|§13-1"&gt;this section&lt;/cite&gt; prior to July 1, 1965, unless the bailiff had served at least ten (10) consecutive years as a bailiff prior to his retirement.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">P.L.L. 1888, Art. 4, §209</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1915, §353</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, §353</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1930, §353</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1938, §464</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1949, §289</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1969, §13-1</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1868, ch 20</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1898, ch. 123, §353</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1900, ch 192</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1920, ch. 125</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, ch. 97</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1947 Sp. Sess., ch. 7</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1949, ch. 599</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1951, ch. 377</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1953, ch. 731</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1955, ch. 245</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1957, ch. 420</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1965, ch. 177</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="13-2" heading="Appraisers: appointment; duties; salary.">
    <text>The Register of Wills of Baltimore City shall appoint a number of appraisers as approved from time to time by the State Comptroller, for his full term of office, unless their places shall become vacant by removal from cause, death, resignation or otherwise.</text>
    <text>The said appraisers shall appraise the goods, chattels and personal estates of all decedents under administration in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City; and shall in each case make the charges therefor now allowed by law and certify the same to the Register of Wills; they shall receive such annual salary respectively as may be established by the State Comptroller from time to time, to be paid by said Register out of the fees of the office.</text>
    <text>The said Register shall keep an accurate account of all monies received for such appraisements, and shall account for and pay the same into the State Treasury, as he is now required by law to account for and pay other monies for which he is accountable to the State.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">P.L.L., 1915, §354A</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, §354A</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1930, §354A</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1938, §467</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1949, §290</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1969, §13-2</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1908, ch. 119</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1919, ch. 250</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1924, ch. 356</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1941, ch. 228</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1969, ch. 658</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
