NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 147

HOUSE BILL 237

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE ANY COUNTY OPERATING AN AMBULANCE SERVICE TO APPOINT AN AMBULANCE COMMISSION AND DELEGATE POWERS THERETO.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Subsection 58 of G.S. 153-9, as the same appears in the 1967 Cumulative Supplement to the 1964 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision fat the end thereof, to be designated as subdivision f and to read as follows:

"In the event a county elects to operate and maintain a county ambulance service pursuant to this subsection, the board of county commissioners may, but is not required to, create an ambulance commission of five members and appoint the members thereof to serve at the pleasure of the board of county commissioners. The board of county commissioners is expressly authorized to delegate to this commission full and complete powers of the board of county commissioners in operating and maintaining such county ambulance service, or it may limit the authority dele- gated to such commission. Any powers delegated pursuant to this subsection may be modified or rescinded by the board of county commissioners at any time."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of March, 1969.