NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 316
HOUSE BILL 278

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 128-21 TO RENDER CERTAIN FULL-TIME PAID VOLUNTEER FIREMEN ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE NORTH CAROLINA LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 128-21(10), as the same appears in Volume 3B of the 1974 Replacement Volume to the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence immediately before the last sentence thereof:
"'Employee' shall also mean all full-time, paid firemen who are employed by any fire department that serves a city or county or any part thereof and that is supported in whole or in part by municipal or county funds."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 128-21(11), as the same appears in Volume 3B of the 1974 Replacement Volume to the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by adding to the end thereof the following sentence:
"'Employer' shall also mean any fire department that serves a city or county or any part thereof, and that is supported in whole or in part by municipal or county funds."
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1977.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of May, 1977.