NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 158
SENATE BILL 188

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 153A-233 CONCERNING COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-233 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:
"§ 153A-233.  Fire-fighting and prevention services. — A county may establish, organize, equip, support, and maintain a fire department; may prescribe the duties of the fire department; may provide financial assistance to incorporated volunteer fire departments; may contract for fire-fighting or prevention services with one or more counties, cities, or other units of local government or with an agency of the State government, or with one or more incorporated volunteer fire departments; and may for these purposes appropriate funds not otherwise limited as to use by law. The county may also designate fire districts or parts of existing districts and prescribe the boundaries thereof for insurance grading purposes."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1977.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of April, 1977.