Current Status Bill Number:3977 Ratification Number:89 Act Number:190 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19950411 Primary Sponsor:Davenport All Sponsors:Davenport Drafted Document Number:BR1\18366AC.95 Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19950421 Governor's Action:V Date of Governor's Action:19950517 Action on Governor's Veto:O Subject:North Spartanburg Area Fire and Rescue District Board
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 19950525 Act No. A190 Senate 19950525 Veto overridden House 19950524 Veto overridden House 19950523 Debate adjourned upon Governor's Veto House 19950518 Debate adjourned upon Governor's Veto ------ 19950517 Vetoed by Governor ------ 19950511 Ratified R89 Senate 19950421 Read third time, enrolled for ratification Senate 19950420 Read second time, unanimous consent for third reading on Friday, 19950421 Senate 19950418 Introduced, read first time, placed on local and uncontested Calendar without reference House 19950413 Read third time, sent to Senate House 19950412 Unanimous consent for third reading on the next Legislative day House 19950412 Read second time House 19950411 Introduced, read first time, placed on Calendar without referenceView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
(A190, R89, H3977)
AN ACT TO AMEND ACT 172 OF 1969, RELATING TO THE NORTH SPARTANBURG AREA FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT BOARD OF FIRE AND RESCUE CONTROL, SO AS TO INCREASE THE MEMBERS ON THE BOARD FROM FIVE TO SEVEN AND TO PROVIDE FOR TERMS OF FOUR RATHER THAN SIX YEARS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Membership and terms revised
SECTION 1. Section 2 of Act 172 of 1969 is amended to read:
"Section 2. There is established a board of fire and rescue control for the North Spartanburg Area Fire and Rescue District to be composed of seven members who must be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of a majority of the Spartanburg County Legislative Delegation. Members shall serve for terms of four years and until their successors are appointed and qualify. The members of the board shall serve without pay and shall file annually a report with the Spartanburg County Board of Control not later than the first of November of each year showing all activities and disbursements made by the board during the year.
If at least twenty percent of the qualified electors residing in the district petition the commissioners of election by the first of September of a general election year, the commissioners shall call an election to be held at the following general election for the purpose of electing a member to the board to succeed the member whose term expires during that year, for a four-year term. Thereafter, members must be elected in each succeeding general election for terms of four years."
Transition provisions
SECTION 2. Members of the Board of Fire and Rescue of the North Spartanburg Area Fire and Rescue District serving on this act's effective date shall continue to serve until their terms expire. Additional members elected to the board pursuant to this act and subsequent members elected shall serve terms of four years as provided for in this act.
Time effective
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Vetoed by the Governor -- 5/17/95.
Veto overridden by House -- 5/24/95.
Veto overridden by Senate -- 5/25/95.