5453
MONTGOMERY COUNTY

amended, to raise the rate at which a fire department
shall be included in the consolidated fire tax district
from twenty—one cents per one hundred dollars of assessed
value to twenty—six cents per one hundred dollars of
assessed valuation,

BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL FOR MONTGOMERY
COUNTY, MARYLAND, That -

SECTION 1. Section 21-13 of Article III, title
"Fire Tax Districts," of Chapter 21, title "Fire and
Rescue Services," of the Montgomery County Code 1972, as
amended, is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

21-13. Generally.

(a) Districts established. Two classes of fire tax
districts are hereby established as follows:

(1) Consolidated Fire Tax District. 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, shall be placed in and constitutes
part of a county—wide consolidated fire tax district.
This consolidated district (composed generally of the
following former areas; Bethesda, Burtonsville, Cabin
John, Chevy Chase, Glen Echo, Hillandale, Hyattstown,
Sandy Spring, Silver Spring and Takoma Park) constitutes,
that area described and outlined on the map attached
hereto, and made a part of this section. The fire tax
district boundaries represented on the map reflect the
boundaries of all existing fire and rescue stations. A
copy of this map shall be maintained in the offices of
the supervisor of assessments of the county and the
secretary of the fire board together with property tax
maps. Any fire department which subsequently requires a
tax rate equal to or exceeding twenty—six cents per
one—hundred dollars assessed valuation for the then
current fiscal year shall be included in and constitute
part of the aforesaid consolidated fire tax district.
Once a fire department becomes part of the district it
shall remain therein and its response area shall become
an integral part of the consolidated 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 (a) the completion within the immediate
past calendar year of the construction contract for a new
fire station, or (b) the existing tax boundaries having
been affected by changes in property boundary lines, or
(c) new roads or bridges opening or existing roads or