NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 131

HOUSE BILL 157

 

 

AN ACT TO VALIDATE THE APPLICATION OF RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT FUNDS TO RESCUE AND AMBULANCE SERVICES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 3A of General Statutes Chapter 69 is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 69-25.17.  Validation of fire protection funds appropriated in providing rescue and ambulance services. All prior appropriations and expenditures by any county board of commissioners of funds derived from taxes levied in rural fire protection districts, but used to provide rescue and ambulance services within said districts, are hereby approved, confirmed, validated, and declared to be proper, authorized, and legal."

Sec. 2.  This act shall not affect pending litigation.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of April, 1977.