GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 559

HOUSE BILL 302

AN ACT TO ALLOW COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION SERVICE DISTRICTS WITH A FIFTEEN CENT RATE LIMITATION TO ALSO PROVIDE AMBULANCE AND RESCUE SERVICES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-309 reads as rewritten:

"§ 153A-309.  EMS services in fire protection districts.

(a)       If a service district is established under this Article for fire protection purposes under G.S. 153A-301(2), (including a district established with a rate limitation under G.S. 153A-309.2), and it was not also established under this Article for ambulance and rescue purposes under G.S. 153A-301(7), the board of county commissioners may, by resolution, permit the service district to provide emergency medical, rescue, and/or ambulance services, and may levy property taxes for such purposes under G.S. 153A-307, but if the district was established under G.S. 153A-309.2, the rate limitation established under that section shall continue to apply.

(b)       The resolution expanding the purposes of the district under this section shall take effect at the beginning of a fiscal year commencing after its passage."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 4th day of July, 1989.