GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

 

 

SESSION LAW 2011-50

HOUSE BILL 26

 

 

AN ACT to allow henderson county to include all unincorporated areas in a fire protection district.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  Section 1 of S.L. 2000-4 reads as rewritten:

"Section 1.  (a) Notwithstanding G.S. 69-25.11, the boundaries of any fire protection district in Henderson County established under Article 3A of Chapter 69 of the General Statutes may be changed by resolution of the Board of Commissioners of Henderson County to follow the boundaries shown on the map in Attachment A to a resolution adopted by that board on March 17, 1999.

(b)        Notwithstanding G.S. 69-25.11, the boundaries of any fire protection district in Henderson County established under Article 3A of Chapter 69 of the General Statutes may be changed by resolution of the Board of Commissioners of Henderson County to include any unincorporated area of the county not already in such a fire protection district if (i) in that resolution all of such unincorporated areas, other than those owned by the United States, are placed in some fire protection district and (ii) no fire district contains any new noncontiguous territory other than a noncontiguity caused by exclusion of property owned by the United States. Any resolution adopted under this subsection becomes effective the first day of the next fiscal year."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of April, 2011.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives