NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 981
HOUSE BILL 1224

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 153‑9 SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LENOIR COUNTY TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO ASSIST THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN THE WHEAT SWAMP COMMUNITY OF LENOIR COUNTY, IF AND WHEN THE SAME IS ORGANIZED.

The General Assembly 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 sentences:
"Provided that in order to provide better fire protection to rural sections of Lenoir County, the Board of Commissioners of Lenoir County is hereby authorized to appropriate out of the General Fund of Lenoir County a sum of money not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) to equally match private funds raised for the purpose of assisting a duly organized and chartered volunteer fire department in the Wheat Swamp Community, if and when the same is organized. In addition, if a volunteer fire department is organized and chartered in the Wheat Swamp Community, the Board of Commissioners of Lenoir County is hereby authorized to appropriate out of the general fund of said county to such volunteer fire department to be organized in the Wheat Swamp Community, the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month, commencing when and if the board of county commissioners finds that the said volunteer fire department is functioning and rendering satisfactory fire protection to areas of the county served by it; and in cooperation with other fire departments, is rendering satisfactory fire protection to the entire county. The continuation of the assistance provided in the preceding sentence shall be conditioned upon the said fire department continuing to function and render satisfactory fire protection in the areas of the county served by it, and in cooperation with other fire departments rendering satisfactory fire protection to the entire 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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 12th day of June, 1959.