5463
MONTGOMERY COUNTY

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—one 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 (i) the completion within the immediate
past calendar year of the construction contract for a new
fire station, or (ii) the existing tax boundaries having
been affected by changes in property boundary lines, or
(iii) new roads or bridges opening or existing roads or
bridges closing within the immediate past calendar year
resulting in a change of response distances, (iv) or
errors in drawing the fire tax district boundaries on the
map required by this section. Response areas within the
consolidated district shall be developed or amended from
time to time by the county fire board.

SECTION 3. Severability.

The provisions of this Act are severable and if any
provision, sentence, clause, section or part thereof is
held illegal, invalid or unconstitutional or inapplicable
to any person or circumstance, such illegality,
invalidity, unconstitutionality, or inapplicability shall
not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions,
sentences, clauses, sections or parts of this Act or
their application to other persons and circumstances. It
is hereby declared to be the legislative intent that this
Act would have been adopted if such illegal, invalid or
unconstitutional provision, sentence, clause, section or
part had not been included therein, and if the person or
circumstances to which the Act or any part thereof is
inapplicable had been specifically exempted therefrom.

SECTION 4. Effective Date.