VETOES

permitting requiring Cecil County to secure workers'
compensation benefits as to certain volunteer fire and
rescue personnel through certain methods; authorizing the
Cecil County Commissioners to establish guidelines for
certain eligible members of any volunteer fire company or
rescue squad; providing for a certain restriction on the
guidelines; and generally relating to the extension of
workers' compensation benefits to volunteer fire and rescue
personnel in Cecil County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation
Section 21(c)(5) and 34(a) and (c)(3)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1985 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 21(b) (4) and 34(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 34(c)(6)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
Maryland, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

21.

(b) The following shall constitute employees subject to the
provisions of this article, except as exempted under subsection
(c) of this section:

(4) Every person in the service of any political
subdivision or agency thereof, under any contract of hire,
express or implied, and every official or officer. thereof,
whether elected or appointed, while performing his official
duties. Except as provided in subsection (c)(5) of this section,
every person who is a member of a volunteer fire or rescue squad
or police department shall be deemed for the purpose of this
article, to be in the employment of the political subdivision of

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