GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 388

HOUSE BILL 201

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE A HIGHER PERCENTAGE PETITION OF LANDOWNERS FOR THE CREATION OF A RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 69-25.1 is hereby amended by replacing "fifteen percent (15%)" with "thirty-five percent (35%)".

Sec. 1.1.  G.S. 69-25.1 is amended by adding the following at the end of the first paragraph:

"If the voters reject the special tax under the first paragraph of this section, then no new election may be held under the first paragraph of this section within two years on the question of levying and collecting a special tax under the first paragraph of this section in that district, or in any proposed district which includes a majority of the land within the district in which the tax was rejected."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective with respect to all petitions submitted under G.S. 69-25.1 on and after 30 days after ratification of this act, but shall not affect any petitions submitted before that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1983.