There is hereby created a Commission to manage the finances of the Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department, consisting of 7 members, all of whom must be taxpayers, each appointed for a term of one year in the following manner:
(a) 2 members by the Mayor and Council of Gaithersburg;
(b) 2 members by the Mayor and Council of Washington Grove;
(c) 2 members by the members of the Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., from its active membership; and
(d) one by the 6 remaining members who must be a taxpayer of Gaithersburg-Washington Grove. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 34-4; 1933, Sp. Sess., ch. 55, § 2; 1939, ch. 440; 1972 L.M.C., ch. 15, § 9; 1998 L.M.C., ch. 4, §1.)
Editor’s note-Section 21-29, formerly §21-8, was renumbered and amended pursuant to 1998 L.M.C., ch. 4, §1.
The above Section and Section 71-19(20) of the County Code do not make Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Fire Department, Inc., (a volunteer fire department) a governmental agency so as to entitle it to governmental immunity. Utica Mutual Ins. Co. v. Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Fire Department, Inc., 53 Md. App. 589, 455 A.2d 987 (1983).