The County Commissioners of Garrett County are hereby authorized, directed and empowered to levy such sums as are necessary annually for the above purposes on the assessable property of the county. Before the County Commissioners shall be required to pay the aforesaid sums of money, the Commissioners shall have the power to require the officers of the fire departments to appear before them and show to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that any sums of money paid by the Commissioners to the fire departments under this chapter have been expended for the purposes set forth in this chapter and also that the fire departments are active firefighting organizations. In the event that the fire departments hereinbefore mentioned cease to remain active fire-fighting organizations or have not used the moneys appropriated to them for the sole purposes set forth in this chapter, then this chapter shall become null and void.
(1986 Code, § 41-3) (P.L.L., 1930, Art. 12, § 184; 1957 Code, § 167; 1929, Ch. 41, § 3; 1931, Ch. 40, § 184; 1937, Ch. 308, § 184; 1943, Ch. 343, § 184; 1947, Ch. 548, § 184)