NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 539

HOUSE BILL 608

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 153-9 RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION IN LENOIR COUNTY.

The General A8sembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Numbered paragraph 39 of G. S. 153-9 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "Provided that in order to provide fire protection to rural sections of Lenoir County, the Board of Commissioners of Lenoir County is hereby authorized to appropriate, out of the general funds of said county to the Volunteer Fire Department of the Town of Deep Run, and to the Fire Departments of the Towns of Pink Hill and La Grange, the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month each, retroactive to December 1, 1958, conditioned however upon the Volunteer Fire Department of the Town of Deep Run and the Fire Departments of the Towns of Pink Hill and La Grange undertaking to answer calls from and extend their several services to all rural parts of Lenoir County."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to Lenoir County and shall become invalid after November 30, 1963.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of May, 1959.