The Montgomery County Council plans to vote this month on a bill that would prohibit government employees from soliciting from the median strips on roads, but would hurt the charity efforts of the county’s firefighters. A council committee on Monday discussed a bill that would change a county ethics law that prohibits county employees, while working or in uniform, from standing at a median divider or intersection to solicit money or donations from a driver — unless approved by the county executive.
Such a change could be bad news for the Fill the Boot campaign, an annual drive by the county’s Fire and Rescue employees to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association by soliciting donations on road medians.
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