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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

squads which rights shall be essentially the same as
accorded merit system employees under County personnel
regulations.

d. The Personnel Committee,

subject to approval of the Fire Board and availability
of funds, shall establish a uniform pay scale.

(2)    Personnel system for volunteer
members of fire departments and rescue squads.

a. The Personnel Committee

shall prepare and adopt uniform personnel regulations
and minimum standards, subject to the approval of the
Fire Board, governing all volunteer members of the
several fire departments and rescue squads.

b. The Personnel Committee,

subject to approval of the Fire Board and the
availability of funds, shall establish a program for
volunteer members to provide financial protection for
the volunteer and his family in the event of the
volunteer's disability or death in the line of duty.
The Committee shall also determine what other parts of
the paid firemen and rescue squadsmen fringe benefit
program can be extended in whole or in part to
volunteer members. Any determinations made by the
Committee shall be subject to the approval of the Fire
Board and the availability of funds.

(3)    The Executive Committee is

authorized, subject to approval of the Fire Board, to
contract on a fee-for—service basis with the County's
Personnel Office for whatever personnel services it
may deem necessary.

(4)    Applicability. The provisions

of subsection (e) shall not apply to the City of
Takoma Park, Maryland.

SECTION 3. Section 27-2, title "Council approval
for organization and location of fire companies and
rescue squads," Chapter 27, title "In General," of the
Montgomery County Code 1965, as amended, is hereby
repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

Sec. 27—1. Council approval for organization and

location of fire companies and rescue