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PUBLIC LAW 91-358-JULY 29, 1970

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title, and shall retain all of his rights, privileges, and benefits and shall be considered as a continuous employee of the Superior Court. If the individual serving as the Auditor of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia is appointed to serve as the AuditorMaster of the Superior Court, he shall retain all of his rights, privileges, and benefits, and shall be considered as a continuous employee of the Superior Court without break in service. (b) Nothing in this title shall affect the status of persons in the competitive civil service on the date of enactment of this title, but such persons may be assigned within the District of Columbia court system without regard to such status. RETIREMENT OF CERTAIN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Ante, p. 579. Ante, p. 490.

JUDGES

SEC. 193. (a) The person serving as judge of the District of Columbia Tax Court on the day prior to the effective date of this title may, within sixty days of such date, elect to retain retirement benefits under section 2 of title IX of the District of Columbia Revenue Act of jgg/jr (D^Q, Code, sec. 47-2402), or relinquish such benefits and elect retirement benefits under chapter 15 of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code, as contained in the revision made by part A of this title, (b)(1) Any judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, or the former District of Columbia Municipal Court of Appeals or Municipal Court, who had retired prior to the effective date of this subsection, may elect to have his retirement salary recomputed and paid in accordance with this subsection. Such election may be made in writing within sixty days after such effective date and shall be filed with the Commissioner of the District of Columbia. (2) The retirement salary of each judge making such election shall be recomputed in accordance with applicable law then in effect at the time of his retirement, except that in the recomputation of such retirement salary, the salary of the corresponding judicial office on the day immediately following the effective date of this subsection shall be deemed to be the salary which such judge was receiving immediately prior to the date of his retirement. (3) Each judge who elects recomputation of his retirement salary in accordance with this subsection shall— (A) deposit in the District of Columbia Judicial Retirement and Survivors Annuity Fund an amount equal to 31/^ per centum of his basic salary received for judicial service, with interest at 4 per centum per annum to December 31, 1947, and 3 per centum per annum thereafter, compounded on December 31 of each year; or (B) have his retirement salary, as recomputed in accordance with this subsection, reduced by 10 per centum of the amount of such deposit remaining unpaid. (4) The retirement salary of any judge which is recomputed in accordance with this subsection shall be payable only with respect to those months beginning on and after the first day of the first month following the date of the election made by such judge under this subsection. C O N T I N U A T I O N OF SERVICE OF JUDGES OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURTS

SEC. 194. A judge of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, or the District of Columbia Tax Court who is serving as a judge of such a court on the day before the effective date of this title under an appointment

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