NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 217

HOUSE BILL 352

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY MEDICAL, RESCUE, AND AMBULANCE SERVICE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 69-25.4 is amended by adding the following new paragraph at the end:

"For purposes of this Article, the term 'fire protection' and the levy of a tax for that purpose may include the levy, appropriation, and expenditure of funds for furnishing emergency medical, rescue and ambulance services to protect persons within the district from injury or death; and the levy, appropriation, and expenditure of the tax to provide such services are proper, authorized and lawful. In providing these services the fire district shall be subject to G.S. 153A-250."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of April, 1981.