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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="27-201" title_number="27" title_name="Judges' Retirement System" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Membership">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The following individuals are members of the Judges’ Retirement System:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a judge of the Supreme Court of Maryland, Appellate Court of Maryland, circuit court of a county, or District Court of Maryland;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a member of the State Workers’ Compensation Commission; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a magistrate in chancery or magistrate in juvenile causes who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>was appointed by the circuit court of a county on or before June 30, 1989; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>serves full time as a magistrate.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A former judge who is temporarily assigned to sit in a court of the State under the authority of Article IV, § 3A of the Maryland Constitution is not a member.</text>
  </level>
</section>
