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MONTGOMERY COUNTY

establish a program of financial protection for
volunteers and their families, that the Executive
Committee of the Fire Board is authorized to
contract with the County Personnel Office for
personnel services, that the provisions of
subsection (e) shall not apply to the City of
Takoma Park, Maryland; to amend Chapter 27, title
"In General," of the Montgomery County Code 1965,
as amended, by repealing in its entirety as
obsolete existing Section 27—1, title "Annual
allowance to fire departments," by repealing and
re—enacting, with amendments, Section 27-2, title
"Council approval, for organization and location
of fire companies and rescue squads," by
redesignating Section 27—2 as Section 27—1, and
by providing that applications for organization
or changes of location of facilities shall be
submitted to the County Executive for
recommendation before being submitted to the
County Council for approval, by repealing and
re-enacting, with amendments, Section 27-3, title
"Authority of council to provide for disability
and death benefits for members of fire
departments and rescue squads; designation of
board to conduct hearings," by redesignating
Section 27—3 as Section 27—2, by adding a new
Section 27-3, title "County Fire Tax District,"
to establish two classes of Fire Tax Districts
within Montgomery County, Maryland, one of which
shall be delineated as the Consolidated Fire Tax
District which shall consist of any Fire
Department with a tax rate equal to or exceeding
seventeen cents per one hundred dollars assessed
valuation as determined by the tax rate
established in fiscal year 1971-72 or
subsequently requires a tax rate equal to or
exceeding twenty—one cents per one hundred
dollars assessed valuation for the then current
fiscal year and shall remain a part of the
Consolidated Fire Tax District free of any
subsequent encroachment by any Individual Fire
Tax District except when the County Council has
had to pass legislation amending the Fire Tax
District boundaries as the result of the
completion within the immediate past calendar
year of the construction contract for a new fire
station, or the existing tax boundaries having
been affected by changes in property boundary
lines, or new roads or bridges opening or
existing roads or bridges closing within the