Ch. 82                                     1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 82
(House Bill 762)

AN ACT concerning

Caroline County - Sheriff - Appointment of Fire Company Members as Deputy Sheriffs

FOR the purpose of requiring allowing the Sheriff of Caroline County to appoint certain
members of certain fire companies as deputy sheriffs; authorizing the fire company
members appointed as deputy sheriffs to exercise the same authority as other
Caroline County deputy sheriffs under certain circumstances; and generally relating
to the appointment of deputy sheriffs in Caroline County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 87—Sheriffs
Section 53(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 87 - Sheriffs
Section 49, 50, and 51 51, and 53(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 87 - Sheriffs

Section 53(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1991 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

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

Article 87 - Sheriffs

49.

Members of fire companies to be designated as hereinafter provided, whether the
companies to which they belong are volunteer or paid, incorporated or unincorporated,
shall be authorized to be appointed deputy sheriffs by the sheriffs of the several counties
to have and exercise the powers of such deputies at fires and on the way to and from fires.

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