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27-3. Authority of council to provide for disability and death benefits
for members of fire departments and rescue squads; designation of board
to conduct hearings.

The council is hereby authorized and empowered to provide for the
payment of disability benefits for members of fire departments, fire com-
panies and fire and ambulance rescue squads operating in the county; and
for the payment of death benefits to their widows and to their children
where such members are injured or killed in the line of duty with such
fire department, fire company or fire or ambulance rescue squad; provided,
that the council may provide, by way of illustration and not by limitation,
for the implementation and administration of such disability and death
benefits, for minimum and maximum benefits payable thereunder, for the
source and funds from which such benefits shall be paid, and for rights
of subrogation in the county.

Section 5. Severability.

The provisions of this Act are severable and if any provision, sentence,
clause, section or part thereof is held illegal, invalid or unconstitutional
or inapplicable to any person or circumstances, such illegality, invalidity
or unconstitutionality, or inapplicability shall not affect or impair any of
the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or parts of the Act
or their application to other persons or circumstances. It is hereby declared
to be the legislative intent that this Act would have been adopted if such
illegal, invalid or unconstitutional provision, sentence, clause, section or
part had not been included therein, and if the person or circumstances to
which the Act or any part thereof is inapplicable had been specifically
exempted therefrom.

Section 6. Effective date.

This Act shall take effect on December 7, 1970.

Chapter 46
(Bill No. 54-69)

An Act to amend Chapter 15, title "Motor Vehicles and Traffic,"
of the Montgomery County Code 1965 by repealing and re-enacting,
with amendments, Section 15-5, title "Authority of County Manager
to erect traffic signs; penalty for failure to observe," and Section 15-7,
title "Same—By County Manager", so as to authorize the County
Executive to erect traffic signs and issue, without Council approval,
traffic orders restricting and/or limiting the movement of automo-
biles or other vehicular or pedestrian traffic and to eliminate an
obsolete reference to the prior Montgomery County Charter.

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

Section 1. Section 15-5, Chapter 15, title "Motor Vehicles and Traf-
fic", of the Montgomery County Code 1965 is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: