AN ACT to ALLOW CERTAIN FIREFIGHTERS the opportunity to continue as members of the Firemen's and rescue squad workers' pension fund by making retroactive payments.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any member who was a firefighter employed by the Asheville Regional Airport Fire Department on April 1, 2005, and who has not received credit for periods of service with the Firemen's and Rescue Squad Workers' Pension Fund since that time, may receive credit for that service upon making a lump‑sum payment of ten dollars ($10.00) for each month of service not credited.  Any employee of the Asheville Regional Airport Fire Department that meets all the criteria of this section may continue as a member of the Pension Fund.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies only to those employees of the Asheville Regional Airport Fire Department who were employed on or before April 1, 2005, and remain continuously employed by the Asheville Regional Airport Fire Department.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of August, 2009.

	s/	 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved 2:04 p.m. this 28th day of August, 2009