Chap. 297.—_An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to authorize
and empower the board of supervisors of counties adjacent to counties having
a density of population in excess of five hundred inhabitants per square
mile, to lay a special levy annually, for fire protection’, approved March
22, 1930. [H B 344]

Approved March 28, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors
of counties adjacent to counties having a density of population in
excess of five hundred inhabitants per square mile, to lay a special
levy annually, for fire protection, approved March twenty-second, nine-
teen hundred and thirty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows: ,

Section 1. It shall be the duty of the president of the county.
volunteer firemen’s association of any county adjacent to a county
having a density of population in excess of five hundred inhabitants
per square mile, in the month of February in each year, to lay before
the board of supervisors of the county a budget showing the estimated
amount of money necessary for fire protection in the county for the
following year, including indebtedness on necessary fire equipment
heretofore purchased, which budget shall be inspected by said board
and if it meets with their approval, the amount thereof shall be in-
cluded in the county budget; or should a portion of such budget be
approved and a portion of such budget be disapproved the amount
approved shall be included in the county budget for such year and
the said board of supervisors is hereby authorized and empowered to
lay a special levy each year, at the time the other county and district
levies are laid, on all property subject to taxation by the county, sufh-
cient to take care of the fire protection budget so included in the
county budget. But no amount shall be included in either the fire
protection budget or the county budget of any such county for any
volunteer fire company, department or association other than those now
belonging to the county volunteer firemen’s association of such county,
unless such company, department or association be regularly organized
and maintain a minimum equipment of one five hundred gallon per
minute pumper with booster tank, one piece of auxiliary motorized
fire equipment and at least one thousand feet of two and one-half inch
fire hose with standard couplings and standard threads seven and
one-half to the inch.