NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 307

HOUSE BILL 825

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE COUNTIES AND CITIES TO PROVIDE DEFENSE COUNSEL FOR MEMBERS OF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND RESCUE SQUADS WHICH RECEIVE PUBLIC FUNDS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-97 is amended by changing the period at the end thereof to a comma and by adding the following: "and of any member of a volunteer fire department or rescue squad which receives public funds."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 160A-167 is hereby amended by inserting after the words and punctuation "or former employee or officer," in line 2, the following: ", or any member of a volunteer fire department or rescue squad which receives public funds,".

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of May, 1977.