Montgomery County                               2613

Avenue to the place of beginning, the council is hereby authorized and
empowered to levy annually against all of the real and personal property
within the area a tax sufficient, on each one hundred dollars of the
assessable value of the real and personal property within such area, to
pay the annual requirements or expenditures necessary to establish, main-
tain and operate the fire department, the tax to be determined, levied,
collected and paid over in the following manner: No later than February
1st of each year the director of finance of the county may certify to the
Chevy Chase Fire Department, Inc., or its successor, the whole assessable
value of the real and personal property within such area.

"(b) The Chevy Chase Fire Department, Inc., or its successor, shall
then determine the amount necessary to be raised for the ensuing year to
establish, maintain and operate the fire department, and then after deter-
mining the number of cents for one hundred dollars of assessable value nec-
essary to raise the required amount for the ensuing year shall certify the
same to the council, together with its proposed operating and capital
budget no later than February 15 of each year. The council, in its next
annual levy, is herewith authorized to levy such tax or such part thereof
as in its judgment is needed to provide adequate fire protection in the area
described in this chapter on all land and improvements and any other
property assessed for county tax purposes within the area, provided that
the council shall not levy such tax at a rate which would produce less than
the amount so certified by the Chevy Chase Fire Department, Inc., as
necessary to maintain, equip and operate the fire department, without a
previous public hearing to determine the necessity of any proposed reduc-
tion of the amount so certified by the fire department, and the tax so
levied shall be collected as county taxes now are or may be hereafter by
law levied and collected, and have the same priority rights, bear the same
interest and penalties in every respect be treated the same as county taxes.
The taxes so levied for the ensuing year shall be collected by the tax
collecting authorities of the county and every sixty days they shall remit
the whole amount of the taxes so levied and collected to the treasurer of the
Chevy Chase Fire Department, Inc., or its successor, upon the treasurer
giving a corporate bond to the county, to be approved by the county
manager and the county attorney in a penal sum to be fixed by them,
conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the duties of the treasurer.
From the money so received the treasurer of the Chevy Chase Fire Depart-
ment, Inc., or its successor, shall pay all proper costs, expenses, claims
and demands including salaries to firemen, of the fire department, payment
on account of any "retirement plan" of the fire department as authorized
by this section and such principal and interest on any encumbrances on
the real estate owned by the fire department as may be due, that are
necessary to properly establish, maintain and operate the fire department.
Should the tax so collected in any one year be inadequate to defray the
costs, expenses, claims and demands, such deficiency may be added to the
amount required for the next ensuing year and collected in the next year's
taxes."

Section 2. This Act shall take effect on the 76th day following its
enactment.

Certified correct as passed.

President
Secretary