Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                  1457

Edition), title "State Department of Public Welfare", sub-title
"Volunteer Firemen", relating to the contingencies whereupon
benefits are payable because of death or disability of a volunteer
fireman and providing for the payment of such benefits where a
volunteer fireman participates in ambulance or rescue squad work.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 38, 39 and 41 of Article 88A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1951 Edition), title "State Department of Public Wel-
fare", sub-title "Volunteer Firemen", be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

38.    Whenever any volunteer fireman in good standing of an in-
corporated volunteer fire company in the State of Maryland, shall be
temporarily or permanently disabled as a direct result from active
participation in fighting a fire or while going to or from a fire, or
performing any [other duties necessary to the operation or mainte-
nance of the fire company] necessary duties relating to actual fire
fighting, or actively participating in the ambulance or rescue squad
work of an incorporated volunteer fire company in the State of
Maryland, the said fireman shall lay his case before the Board of
Trustees of the Maryland State Firemen's Association, supported in
all cases by the recommendation of the fire company of which he is a
member, and the Board of Trustees aforesaid shall proceed to con-
sider the same, and if the facts are found as above stated, the name of
the fireman shall be placed on a list to be kept by the Secretary of the
Maryland State Firemen's Association, to be known as "Disabled
Firemen's List", and every person so placed on said list shall be
entitled to receive a pension from the Maryland Firemen's Association
in a sum, the amount of which shall be decided upon by the Board
of Trustees of the Maryland State Firemen's Association and to be
paid out of its treasury at such times and in such instalments and in
such Amounts as the said Board of Trustees of the Maryland State
Firemen's Association may decide, during the period he is so disabled
or so long as said pensioner is without other means of comfortable
support.

39.    In case of the death of any volunteer fireman by accident re-
sulting from the active participation in fighting a fire or while going
to or from a fire, or performing any [other duties necessary to the
operation or maintenance of the fire company] necessary duties re-
lating to actual fire fighting or actively participating in the ambulance
or rescue work of an incorporated volunteer fire company in the
State of Maryland, and he leaves a widow or a dependent child or
children, the case shall be laid before the Board of Trustees of the
Maryland State Firemen's Association, and if the facts are established
as provided in Section 38, the widow and child, or children as the
case may be, shall be placed on said "Disabled Firemen's List", and
the widow shall be entitled to receive a pension from the Maryland
State Firemen's Association in a sum, the amount of which shall be
decided upon by the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Fire-
men's Association, and to be paid out of its treasury at such times
and in such instalments and in such amount as the said Board of
Trustees of the Maryland State Firemen's Association may decide,
during widowhood, and each of the children of the said deceased
firemen shall receive a pension from the Maryland State Firemen's
Association in a sum the amount of which shall be decided upon by