436 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 98

additional for each year of service thereafter, subject to said
maximum of $2,400.00 per year.

(b) All chauffeurs appointed under this sub-titile shall be
entitled to 15 days annual vacation, at the full rate of pay.

(c) The County Commissioners, upon the recommendation
of the several Volunteer Fire Companies, shall appoint a relief
chauffeur for each of the several Volunteer Fire Companies,'
to substitute for the regular chauffeurs when they are off on
vacation or sick. The pay of said relief chauffeurs shall be
computed at the annual rate of f 2,100.00.

(d) Persons now employed as chauffeurs of the several
Volunteer Fire Companies shall be appointed by the County
Commissioners in preference to all other applicants to fill the
positions created by this sub-title. The County Commis-
sioners may pass rules and regulations setting forth the duties
of each of the chauffeurs appointed under this sub-title.

(e) The County Commissioners may retire any chauffeur of
a Volunteer Fire Department who shall after June 1, 1939,
become permanently disabled while in the active performance
of his duties, or who has performed faithful services as a
chauffeur for a period of not less than twenty (20) consecu-
tive years' service prior to June 1, 1939, to be included, and
has reached the age of sixty-five (65) years, and place the
chauffeurs so retired upon a pension roll and pay him one-
half of his regular monthly salary. No chauffeur shall be
retired before reaching the age of sixty-five (65) until he shall
have been examined by a board of three physicians of the
State Department of Health and its findings as to disability
assigned as a reason for retirement shall have been certified
to the County Commissioners.

(f) This sub-title shall not apply to the City of Annapolis.

331. The county Commissioners are hereby authorized and
empowered to provide such additional sums of money (not to
exceed $2,000.00 per Company) as may be necessary from time
to time for the purchase, maintenance, operation and replace-
ment reserve for fire fighting equipment, truck quarters and
chauffeurs' dormitories of such additional Volunteer Fire
Companies as may be organized, provided such companies
have complied with the requirements of this sub-title. No
Volunteer Fire Company shall be organized in any part of
Anne Arundel County (outside the City of Annapolis) with-
out the approval of the County Commissioners of Anne
Arundel County. No Volunteer Fire Company shall be
organized in the City of Annapolis without the approval of
the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis.