2754

LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 570

Benefits — Rescue Squadmen

FOR the purpose of including rescue squadmen and their
families in certain benefits; and clarifying
language.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 38A — Fires and Investigations

Section 42, 43 and 45

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 42, 43 and 45 of Article 38A -
Fires and Investigations, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be
and they are hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 38A — Fires and Investigations

42.

Whenever any volunteer fireman OR VOLUNTEER RESCUE
SQUADMAN in good standing of an incorporated volunteer
fire company OR VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD in the state of
Maryland, [shall be] IS temporarily or permanently
disabled as a direct result from active participation in
fighting a fire or while going to or from a fire, [or]
performing any other duties necessary to the operation or
maintenance of the fire company, or actively
participating in the ambulance or rescue squad work of an
incorporated volunteer fire company OR VOLUNTEER RESCUE
SQUAD in the State [of Maryland], the [said] fireman OR
RESCUE SQUADMAN shall lay his case before the board of
trustees of the Maryland State Firemen's Association,
supported in all cases by the recommendation of the fire
company OR VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD of which he is a
member, and the board of trustees [aforesaid] shall
proceed to consider [the same, and if] IT. IF the facts
are found as [above] stated, the name of the fireman OR
RESCUE SQUADMAN shall be placed on a list to be kept by
the secretary of the Maryland State Firemen's
Association, to be known as "Disabled Firemen's AND
RESCUE SQUADMEN'S List," and every person [so] placed on
[said] THE list shall be entitled to receive a pension
from the Maryland STATE Firemen's Association in a sum,
the amount of which shall be decided upon by the board of
trustees of the Maryland State Firemen's Association and
to be paid out of its treasury at [such] WHATEVER times,