ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  709

provided or until their death, resignation or retirement, The
County Commissioners of Baltimore County may punish any
officer, member or employee of the Fire Department for any
infraction of the rules or regulations of such department or for
insubordination or wilful neglect of duty.

245. The County Commissioners of Baltimore County are
hereby authorized to retire from office in the Fire Department
of Baltimore County any permanent member thereof, including
the Chief Engineer, who has become permanently disabled while
in the active performance of duty, and place the member so
retired upon a pension roll and to allow to each pensioner an-
nually an amount equal to one-half the yearly amount received
by him at the time of his retirement, payable in monthly install-
ments. That no member of the Fire Department of Baltimore
County shall be retired until he shall have been examined by
the Board of Examiners herein provided for, and their finding
as to the disability assigned as reason for a retirement shall
have been certified by them to the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County.

252. Any permanent member of the Fire Department of Bal-
timore County, including the Chief Engineer, who shall per-
form faithful service in the Department for a period of not less
than twenty consecutive years, may, by the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County, be retired at that time, and such
members shall be placed upon the pension roll as provided in
Section 245 of this Article and entitled to all the benefits there-
from as therein provided for. All members of the department,
including the Chief Engineer, shall for the purposes of this sec-
tion be credited with all the time they may have served in the
department prior to the passage of this Act,

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1931.

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 275.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 193
of Title 20 of Offutt's Revised Code of Public Local Laws of
Baltimore County (Edition of 1928), entitled "Elections, "
regulating the compensation of judges and clerks of election in
Baltimore County.