620 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 231

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

(c) The County Commissioners, upon the recommenda-
tion 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 $2, -
100. 00.

(d) Persons now employed as chauffeurs of the sev-
eral Volunteer Fire Companies shall be appointed by the
County Commissioners in preference to all other appli-
cants to fill the positions created by this sub-title. The
County Commissioners may pass rules and regulations set-
ting forth the duties of each of the chauffeurs appointed
under this sub-title.

(e) The County Commissioners may retire any chauf-
feur 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) consecutive 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 Com-
missioners.

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

331. The County Commissioners are hereby, author-
ized 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, mainte-
nance, operation and replacement reserve for fire fighting
equipment, truck quarters and chauffeurs' dormitories of
such additional Volunteer Fire Companies as may be or-
ganized, provided such companies have complied with the
requirements of this sub-title. No Volunteer Fire Com-
pany shall be organized in any part of Anne Arundel
County (outside the City of Annapolis) without the ap-
proval of the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel