NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 593
HOUSE BILL 750

AN ACT TO ASSURE THE CONTINUANCE OF AMBULANCE SERVICE IN UNION COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Union County is hereby authorized and empowered to take such action as it may determine necessary to insure adequate ambulance service for protection and safety of people in Union County. To this end, said board is authorized and empowered to enter into contracts with private firms or individuals or governmental or quasi‑governmental agencies or municipalities to establish and/or maintain adequate ambulance service in Union County.
Sec. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Union County is authorized and empowered to appropriate and expend from the general fund, or from any other source available, such funds as it may determine necessary for the purposes herein set out.
Sec. 3. The Board of County Commissioners of Union County is authorized in its discretion to levy a special tax at a rate not to exceed five cents (5¢) per one hundred dollars ($100.00) valuation of real property for the purposes herein set out.
Sec. 4. The Board of County Commissioners of Union County is hereby authorized and empowered to determine and approve a schedule of minimum and maximum fees that shall be charged for ambulance service in Union County, and compliance with such fee schedule may be required by said board as a prerequisite to receiving any funds from the county for ambulance service.
Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. 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 28th day of May, 1963.