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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 547

caused by heart diseases or hypertension resulting in total
or partial disability or death shall be presumed to be
compensable under this article and to have been suffered in
the line of duty and as a result of his employment.

(b)  Any paid fire fighter OR FIRE FIGHTING INSTRUCTOR
whose compensable claim results from a condition or
impairment of health caused by lung diseases, heart diseases
or hypertension and any paid police officer whose
compensable claim results from a condition or impairment of
health caused by heart diseases or hypertension and has been
suffered in the line of duty shall receive such benefits as
are provided for in this article in addition to such
benefits as he may be entitled to under the retirement
system in which said fire fighter or police officer was a
participant at the time of his claim. The benefits received
under this article however, shall be adjusted so that the
total of all weekly benefits shall not exceed one hundred
percent of the weekly salary which was paid to said fire
fighter or police officer.

(c)   Any volunteer fireman OR FIRE FIGHTING INSTRUCTOR
or rescue squad member referred to in § 21 (b) (4) of this
article whose compensable claim results from a condition or
impairment of health caused by lung diseases, heart diseases
or hypertension suffered in the line of duty shall receive
the benefits provided for in this section if that person has
met a suitable standard of physical examination for
membership.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 548

(Senate Bill 1125)

AN ACT concerning

Corporations - Consumer Cooperatives

FOR the purpose of expanding the purpose for which
cooperatives may be organized; establishing a means for
the conversion of membership corporations into
cooperatives; defining certain terms; and generally
relating to the creation and issuance of voting
memberships in consumer cooperatives.

BY adding to

Article — Corporations and Associations

Section 5-6A-01 through 5-6A-09 5-6A-08, inclusive, to