Chap. 230.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 271 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1934, approved March 28, 1934, relating to fire zones or districts
and fighting fires in counties. [H B 271]

Approved March 14, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That chap-
ter two hundred and seventy-one of the Acts of the General Assembly of
nineteen hundred and thirty-four, approved March twenty-eighth, nine-
teen hundred and thirty-four, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

The boards of supervisors and other governing bodies of the several
counties of this State are hereby authorized to create and establish by
defined metes and bounds, fire zones or districts in said counties, within
which may be located and established one or more fire departments, to be
equipped with apparatus for fighting fires and protecting property within
such zones or districts from loss or damage by fire.

In the event of the creation of such zones or districts in any county,
the board of supervisors, or the county manager or county executive
thereof, is hereby empowered to acquire, in the name of the county, real
or personal property to be devoted to the uses aforesaid, and shall pre-
scribe rules and regulations for the proper management, control and
conduct thereof, and said board or other governing body shall also have
authority to contract with, or secure the services of any individual cor-
poration, organization or municipal corporation, or any volunteer firemen
for such fire protection as may be required.

To raise funds for the proposes aforesaid, the board of supervisors
or other governing body of any county in which such zones or districts
are established may levy annually a tax not exceeding ten cents on the
hundred dollars of the assessed value of all property real and personal
within such zones or districts, subject to local taxation, which tax shall
be extended and collected as other county taxes are extended and col-
lected.
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The amount realized from such levy shall be kept separate from all
other monies of the county and shall be applied to no other purpose than
the maintenance and operation of the fire departments established under
the provisions of this act.