GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 299

HOUSE BILL 618

 

AN ACT TO INCLUDE THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF INDIAN BEACH WITHIN THE SALTER PATH RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, AND TO ALLOW THAT TOWN TO REMOVE ITSELF FROM THE DISTRICT AT A FUTURE TIME.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The area of the Salter Path Rural Fire Protection District is increased to include all of the territory within the corporate limits of the Town of Indian Beach.  As territory is annexed to the Town of Indian Beach, that territory automatically becomes part of the Salter Path Rural Fire Protection District on the effective date of the annexation.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 69-25.15 does not apply to the Town of Indian Beach.

Sec. 3.  Upon the adoption of an ordinance by the governing board of the Town of Indian Beach finding that the Town is able to establish a fire and rescue department staffed either by volunteers or by fulltime professional employees, or to otherwise adequately provide for fire protection and rescue services, the area of the Salter Path Rural Fire Protection District is decreased by removing the territory within the corporate limits of the Town of Indian Beach.  Any such ordinance shall become effective on the first day of July which is more than 60 days after adoption of the ordinance.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of May, 1985.