GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 420
SENATE BILL 273

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION TO CHANGE ITS NAME AND TO HOLD PROPERTY WITH A VALUE IN EXCESS OF FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 251 of the Private Laws of 1889 as amended by Section 1 of Chapter 255 of the 1949 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.  That C. D. Benbow, J. G. Fowler, H. J. Elam, J. W. Griffith, A. T. Boyd, C. F. Thomas, J. R. Donnell, Charles Whittington and S. D. Wilson, of Greensboro, J. D. McNeill, of Fayetteville, J. T. Thacker, W. F. Keith, S. A. Link, C. A. Snipes, F. N. Vogler, F. C. Mimming, of Winston-Salem, E. B. Englehard, T. W. Blake, F. H. Lumsden and F. Brannan, of Raleigh, H. E. Heartt, of Durham, B. J. Swinston, of Charlotte, and such other persons as are associated with them and their successors, be and they hereby are constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the North Carolina State Firemen's Association.  The corporation may change the corporate name at any time in accordance with its bylaws and applicable law. The corporation may sue and be sued, and prosecute and defend suits in all courts in this State, and may have and use a common seal; may make contracts and shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding and conveying any real or personal estate for the use and benefit of said association or corporation."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of June, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives