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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="12-209" title_number="12" title_name="Other Powers of Counties -- Generally" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Pensions; Group Insurance">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only to Carroll County.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other law, the Board of County Commissioners may not establish:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a group insurance program to be offered to the county commissioners, in any year, that offers different benefits or a different county subsidy allowance than the group insurance program offered to full–time county employees for that year; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a defined benefit or defined contribution pension plan to be offered to the county commissioners that is separate from a defined benefit or defined contribution pension plan offered to full–time county employees.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A county commissioner:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>each year may participate in the group insurance program offered to full–time county employees, and may receive the same county subsidy allowed to full–time county employees for that year; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>each year may participate in a defined benefit or defined contribution pension plan offered to full–time county employees, but is not eligible for any employer matching contribution.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
