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[[SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this
Act shall take effect June 1, 1974.]]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
health and safety and having been passed by a yea and nay
vote supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 31, 1974.

CHAPTER 810
(House Bill 1431)
AN ACT concerning

St. Mary's County — Fire Companies

FOR the purpose of altering the amount paid to each
active volunteer fire department in St. Mary's
County, and clarifying the language.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

The Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County
Section 76

Article 19 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1965 Edition and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 76 of the Public Local Laws of St.
Mary's County being Article 19 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1965 Edition and 1973 Supplement)
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 19

76.

The County Commissioners are authorized to pay
annually from general county funds to each active
volunteer fire [company] DEPARTMENT in St. Mary's County
a sum not less than [$5,000.00 per company, provided,
however, that] $8,500 WITH AN ANNUAL INCREMENT OF $1,000,
TO A MAXIMUM OF $12,500 PER STATION. HOWEVER, no part of