Ch. 165                                    1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Approved May 9, 1995.

CHAPTER 165
(Senate Bill 366)

AN ACT' concerning

Firefighters and Emergency Medical Personnel - Right of Aggrieved Parties to Judicial

Review

FOR the purpose of providing that certain firefighters and emergency medical personnel,
counties, and municipal corporations have a right to obtain judicial review of certain
final disciplinary decisions of their employers under certain circumstances;
specifying that the collective bargaining rights of firefighters and emergency medical
personnel exist concurrently with the right to judicial review requiring the court to
apply a certain standard of review; allowing certain rights under a collective
bargaining agreement to be an alternative to the right to judicial review; providing
that certain rights under certain collective bargaining agreements are not abrogated
by this Act; defining a certain term certain terms; and generally relating to
firefighters and emergency medical personnel and the right of aggrieved parties to
judicial review.

BY adding to

Article - Labor and Employment

Section 4-601 through 4-603, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 6.

Firefighters and Emergency Medical Personnel - Right to Judicial Review"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Volume and 1994 Supplement)

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

Article - Labor and Employment

SUBTITLE 6. FIREFIGHTERS AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL PERSONNEL - RIGHT TO

JUDICIAL REVIEW.

4-601.

(A) IN THIS SUBTITLE, "FIREFIGHTER OR EMS EMPLOYEE" MEANS A PAID
EMPLOYEE WHO ENGAGES IN FIRE FIGHTING, RESCUE, SUPPORT, OR EMERGENCY
MEDICAL SERVICES FOR:

(1) THE BALTIMORE CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT;

(2) THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, BUREAU, OR FORCE OF A COUNTY; OR

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