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[c] (D) In a civil case in which the amount in
controversy exceeds $500, and in any case in which the
parties so agree, an appeal shall be heard on the record
made in the District Court. In every other case, including
a criminal case in which sentence has been imposed or
suspended following a plea of nolo contendere or guilty, AND
AN APPEAL IN A MUNICIPAL INFRACTION CASE, an appeal shall be
tried de novo.

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

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 736

(House Bill 1739)

AN ACT concerning

Frederick County - Bordering County Fire Departments

FOR the purpose of deleting the requirement that the
Frederick County Commissioners make payments to fire
companies bordering Frederick County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Frederick County
Section 9—1

Article 11 — Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1959 Edition, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as
follows:

Article 11 - Frederick County

9-1.

The county commissioners shall annually levy on the
assessable property of the County a tax to provide the sum
of not less than $4,000 for each Frederick County Fire
Company which has been approved and recognized by the
Frederick County Firemen's Association and the Board of
County Commissioners[, and the sum of not less than $650 for
the following bordering county fire departments:

(a)    Union Bridge Fire Company.

(b)    Hyattstown Volunteer Fire Company.