WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 661

expended for the purposes set forth in this subsection and also that the fire companies are
active fire-fighting organizations. If any of the fire companies ceases to remain an active
fire-fighting organization or has not used the moneys appropriated to them for the sole
purposes set forth in this subsection, the County Commissioners shall allocate the
unexpended funds to the contingent fund of Dorchester County.

[(6) The minimum amounts to be paid and distributed to the volunteer fire
companies in Dorchester County for the year 1981 shall also apply to 1982 and
subsequent years unless they are increased by an act of the General Assembly or by the
Dorchester County Commissioners. The provision for levying amounts to be paid to the
fire companies shall also apply to 1982 and subsequent years. The County Commissioners
shall specify the amount to be received by Elliotts Volunteer Fire Company ]

EXPLANATION: Article 25, § 3(w)(2) through (6) requires the Dorchester County
Commissioners to make a certain minimum appropriation to specified fire
companies in 1979, 1980, and 1981. The 1981 minimum amounts are to remain
in effect in subsequent years. References to 1979 and 1981 are deleted as
obsolete. Since this provision establishes an annual minimum appropriation,
the specific reference to 1981 also is deleted. Since the figures are statutory
minimums, the qualification, "unless [the amounts] are increased by an act of
the General Assembly or by the Dorchester County Commissioners" is
repealed as implicit.

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(a)     Unless otherwise provided in the public local laws of a county, the county
commissioners of the several counties shall receive three dollars per day for each day they
shall be engaged in the discharge of their duties, and mileage at the rate of ten cents for
every mile over five miles from their places of residence.

(b)     The following vary the above:

The County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall receive a salary of one
thousand dollars per year each, including mileage, payable monthly by the treasurer of
that county; and the County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall meet at their office
in the courthouse in Towson on Tuesday and Wednesday of each week, and to meet daily
for the transaction of the public business from the first Tuesday in March until after the
annual levy is made.

(c)     The compensation for the County Commissioners of Talbot County shall be as
set forth in Article 21 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland.

(d)     The compensation for the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County shall
be as set forth in Article 19 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland.

(e)     Any compensation or reimbursement for travel expenses for the County
Commissioners of Carroll County shall be as set forth in Article 7 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland.

(f)      The compensation for the County Commissioners of Frederick County shall
be as provided in the Code of Public Local Laws of the county in lieu of any compensation
or expenses provided for in this section.

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