PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                               Ch. 67

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved April 9, 1996.

CHAPTER 67
(House Bill 584)

AN ACT concerning

Charles County - Fire and Rescue Workers - Length of Service Award Program - Benefit

Adjustments

FOR the purpose of repealing the cap on the maximum overall increase in adjustments to
benefits under the length of service award program for qualified active volunteer
members of the Charles County Volunteer Fire Companies, Volunteer Rescue
Squads and mobile intensive care units; requiring any benefit adjustment under the
program to be applied only prospectively; and generally relating to benefit
adjustments in the Length of Service Award Program for certain fire and rescue
workers in Charles County.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 54-8

Article 9 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1994 Edition and November 1995 Supplement, as amended)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 54-10 A.

Article 9 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1994 Edition and November 1995 Supplement, as amended)

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

Article 9 - Charles County

54-8.

There is hereby established a length of service award program for qualified active
volunteer members of the Charles County Volunteer Fire Companies; Volunteer Rescue
Squads and mobile intensive care units. For the purposes of §§ 54-8 through 54-11,
"active volunteer member" means a person who accumulated a minimum of fifty (50)
points per calendar year in accordance with the point system set forth in Section 54-11.

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