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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

(2)     Personnel System for Volunteer Members of
Fire Departments and Rescue Squads.

(i)         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.

(ii) 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)       Contract with County Personnel Office.
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.

(f.) Contract with Prince George's County. With
respect to fire services provided by the Takoma Park
Volunteer Fire Department, there shall be executed and
periodically renewed a written agreement between
Montgomery County and Prince George's County providing
for reimbursement to Montgomery County for fire services
rendered by Takoma Park within Prince George's County.

SECTION 2. Section 21-13(a), title "Generally," of
Article III, title "Fire Tax Districts," of Chapter 21,
title "Fire and Rescue Services," of the Montgomery
County Code 1972, is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with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