HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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capital account; and providing that the fire companies
conduct an annual audit and submit the results of the
audit provide an accounting of the expenditures of such
funds to the County Commissioners.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Somerset County
Section 17

Article 20 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1977 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of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as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 20 - Somerset County

17.

(a) The County Commissioners of Somerset County are
hereby authorized, empowered and required to appropriate and
levy annually the sum of [thirteen thousand five hundred
dollars ($13,500.00)] $97,300 for the use of the organized
volunteer fire companies of said Somerset County. The said
sum shall be divided into five parts and paid annually to
the treasurers of the following companies in the manner
following: That is to say, to the treasurer of the Crisfield
Volunteer Fire Company [three thousand dollars ($3,000.00)],
$27,000; to the treasurer of the Princess Anne Volunteer
Fire Company [three thousand dollars ($3,000.00)], $27,000;
to the treasurer of the Marion Volunteer Fire Company
[twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00)], $16,700; [and] to
the treasurer of the Deals Island-Chance Volunteer Fire
Company [twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00)], $14,700;
[and] to the treasurer of the Ewell Fire Department, Inc.,
of Smith's Island [twenty-five hundred dollars
($2,500.00).], $11,900.

[(b) In addition to the provisions of subsection (a)
of this section, the County Commissioners may appropriate
and levy annually an additional sum not to exceed $51,500
for the use of the organized volunteer fire companies of
Somerset County. If this sum is appropriated and levied, it
shall be divided into five parts and paid annually to the
treasurers of the following companies in these amounts:
Crisfield Volunteer Fire Company, $15,000; Princess Anne
Volunteer Fire Company, $15,000; Marion Volunteer Fire
Company, $9,000; Deal's Island-Chance Volunteer Fire
Company, $7,500; and Ewell Fire Department, Inc., of Smith's
Island, $5,000. If a sum less than $51,500 is appropriated
and levied in any year under the provisions of this
subsection, it shall be divided among the several organized
volunteer fire companies in a ratio approximately equal to
the ratio of the figures hereinabove in this subsection.]