2612                                  Municipal Charters

March Legislative Session 1969

Chapter 10
(Bill No. 8-69)

An Act to repeal and reenact, with amendments, Section 31-1 (a)
and (b), Chapter 31, title, "Chevy Chase," of the Montgomery County
Code 1965, to eliminate the maximum authorized tax rate and to state
a time in which the Chevy Chase Fire Department, Inc., must certify
their operating and capital budget requests to the County Council.

Be It Enacted by the County Council for Montgomery County, Maryland,
that—

Section 1. Section 31-1 (a) and (b), Chapter 31, title "Chevy Chase,"
of the Montgomery County Code 1965, is hereby repealed and reenacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

Sec. 31-1. Area defined; annual levy; treasurer's duties and bond;
retirement of employees.

"(a) For the purpose of providing funds with which to establish,
maintain and operate a fire department within the area in the Seventh
Election District in the county, particularly designated and described, and
lying and being within the bounds, courses and distances as follows:
Beginning for the same at a point where the center line of Wisconsin
Avenue intersects the northwestern boundary of the District of Columbia;
thence with the boundary of the District of Columbia, northeast to a point
where the said boundary intersects Rock Creek, following the meanders
thereof, in a northwesterly direction, to the point where the easterly line
of the Charles C. Bohrer property intersects Rock Creek, the said property
being the certain tract of land particularly designated and described in a
deed recorded in the Land Records of Montgomery County, Maryland,
in Liber J. A. 46 at Folio 38, the above described point being where the
boundary of the Bethesda Fire Department taxing area leaves Rock Creek;
thence in a southwesterly direction and with the easterly line of the said
Charles C. Bohrer property to the northeast corner of the M. E. Coolidge
property; thence with the easterly line of the said M. E. Coolidge property
and across the public road known as the Jones Bridge Road to the northerly
line of the property of the Columbia Country Club; thence following the
boundaries of the said Columbia Country Club in a clockwise direction to
the northwest corner of the property of the Chevy Chase Land Company;
thence in a southerly direction and with the westerly line of the property
of the Chevy Chase Land Company to the southwest corner of the said
property of the Chevy Chase Land Company; thence in an easterly direc-
tion and with the southerly line of the property of the said Chevy Chase
Land Company, crossing the right of way of the Metropolitan Southern
Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to the northeast
corner of the property of Mary E. Patten, et al; thence southwesterly and
with the westerly line of the property of the said Chevy Chase Land
Company, crossing the East-West Highway, and with the westerly bound-
ary line of Chevy Chase Section 4-B, to the northern boundary of the
special taxing area of Section Four of the Village of Chevy Chase, Mary-
land; thence westerly and southerly along the northern and western bound-
aries of the said Section Four taxing area and across Bradley Lane to the
northern boundary of the Chevy Chase Club; thence following the bound-
aries of the said Chevy Chase Club in a clockwise direction to the southwest
corner of the said Chevy Chase Club; thence west to the center line of
Wisconsin Avenue; thence southerly along the center line of Wisconsin