AN ACT allowing cabarrus county to change the boundaries of fire districts.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Chapter 558 of the 1987 Session Laws is amended by adding a new section to read:
"SECTION 19.1.  The Board of Commissioners may, effective the first day of July after the adoption of an ordinance, change the boundaries of a fire district in Cabarrus County established by this act, if:
(1)	It first holds a public hearing on that ordinance, with notice published at least 14 days before the hearing.
(2)	Makes available in the office of the Clerk to the Board of Commissioners a map showing the proposed changes.
(3)	No area will be in more than one fire district.
(4)	No area shall be within the corporate limits of a municipality (except for any area within the corporate limits of a municipality that is already within a fire district under this act)."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 10th day of May, 2006.

	s/	 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives