WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 523

eligible for worker's compensation coverage under this Act
guidelines for certain eligible members of any volunteer
fire company or rescue squad; providing for a certain
restriction on the guidelines; and generally relating to the
extension of workers' compensation benefits to volunteer
fire and rescue personnel in Cecil County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation
Section 21(c)(5) and 34(a) and (c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1985 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 21(b)(4) and 34(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

21.

(b)  The following shall constitute employees subject to the
provisions of this article, except as exempted under subsection
(c) of this section:

(4) Every person in the service of any political
subdivision or agency thereof, under any contract of hire,
express or implied, and every official or officer thereof,
whether elected or appointed, while performing his official
duties. Except as provided in subsection (c)(5) of this section,
every person who is a member of a volunteer fire or rescue squad
or police department shall be deemed for the purpose of this
article, to be in the employment of the political subdivision of
the State where the department is organized. Except as provided
in subsection (c)(5) of this section, every person who is a
regularly enrolled volunteer member or trainee of the civil
defense corps of this State as established under the Maryland
Emergency Management and Civil Defense Act shall be deemed, for
the purposes of this article, to be in the employment of the
State.

(c)  The following employees are exempt from the coverage of
this act:

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