2052                              MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

such permanent member who has been an employee of the Fire [bureau]
Department for more than five but less than ten years, the ordinary
disability benefit allowance shall be twenty-five percent of the annual
salary which he last received as such employee. For any such permanent
member who has been an employee for more than ten years, an additional
two and one-half percent shall be added for each year above ten years of
service, with a fifty percent ceiling.

21-9. Amount of benefits for retired members.

The Director of Personnel is hereby authorized to retire from office in
the Fire [bureau] Department any permanent member thereof, includ-
ing the chief engineer, who has become permanently disabled while in the
active performance of duty, and place the member so retired upon a pen-
sion roll and to allow to each pensioner annually an amount equal to one-
half the yearly amount received by him at the time of his retirement
payable in monthly installments; provided, that no member of the Fire
[bureau] Department shall be retired until he shall have been examined
by the board of physicians herein provided for, and their findings as to the
disability assigned as reason for a retirement shall have been certified by
them to the Director of Personnel; the physicians serving on said board
shall be selected and compensated, as provided in Section 21-17 of this
Code as amended.

21-10. Authority to pension widows and infant children of firemen
killed in line of duty.

The county is hereby authorized to make such provisions for pen-
sioning the widow and infant children of firemen who have been killed
in the active discharge of their duties as members of the Fire [bureau]
Department as in the judgment of the county shall be just and proper.

21-12. Retirement benefits for twenty years of service.

Any permanent member of the Fire [bureau] Department including
the chief engineer, who shall perform faithful service in the [bureau]
department for a period of not less than twenty years, may, by the county,
be retired at that time, and such members shall be placed upon the pension
roll as provided in Section 21-9 of this Code and entitled to all benefits
therefrom as therein provided for. All members of the department, includ-
ing the chief engineer, shall for the purposes of this section be credited
with all the time they may have served in the department prior to June 1,
1922. The retirement and pensioning provisions effective as to the Fire
[bureau] Department shall apply only to the chief engineer, his assistants
and members of the [bureau] department engaged for actual fire fighting
duty of the operation of fire fighting machinery in actual service and
to no other person-whatsoever.

21-12.1. Payments to 10 year employees.

Any person who has been an officer or employee of the Fire [bureau]
Department of Baltimore County [formerly known as the Fire Depart-
ment of Baltimore County] for more than ten years, and who has con-
tributed to the