NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 290

HOUSE BILL 593

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES WHEN A PETITION FOR A FIRE DISTRICT ELECTION INCLUDES TERRITORY IN FORSYTH AND DAVIDSON COUNTIES AND TO RATIFY AN ELECTION AND TAX LEVY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 69-25.9 is amended by adding the following paragraph at the end of the second paragraph:

"In the event that an area petitioning for a tax election under this Article lies in both Forsyth County and Davidson County, then either the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners or the Davidson County Board of Commissioners may provide by resolution that the elections shall be conducted separately and may be held at different times, and in such event the cost of the election in that county shall be paid by the county where the election is held. In the event that a separate election is held and a majority of the qualified voters voting at said election vote in favor of levying and collecting a tax in said district, then the provisions of G.S. 69-25.4 shall apply, and the area lying within the county conducting the election shall be considered for all purposes as a separate fire protection district under the provisions of this Article."

Sec. 2. All aspects of that certain election conducted by the Davidson County Board of Elections on May 2, 1978, known as the Gum Tree Fire Protection District Election wherein the voters expressed themselves in favor of a tax for fire protection in the Gum Tree Fire Protection District and the subsequent levy of a special tax for fire protection within said Gum Tree Fire Protection District by the Davidson County Board of Commissioners for the fiscal year 1978-1979 are hereby ratified, confirmed, validated, and declared to be proper, authorized, and legal. The Gum Tree Fire Protection District of Davidson County is hereby declared to be in legal existence in accordance with Section 1 of this act.

Sec. 3. This act shall apply only to Forsyth County and Davidson County.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are, to the extent of such conflict, repealed.

Sec. 5. This act shall also apply to any petition described above for a tax election which is pending on the date of its enactment.

Sec. 6. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of April, 1979.