A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to ensure adequate fire protection services at the university of north carolina at pembroke.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated as a grant‑in‑aid to the Pembroke Rural Fire Department to be used as follows:  (i) to reimburse the Pembroke Rural Fire Department for the extra costs incurred when it purchased a 100‑foot aerial fire truck to ensure adequate fire protection services to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and (ii) to purchase additional equipment for the fire truck that is needed to make the fire truck fully operational.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.