Introduced By: Senators Sosnowski and Nygaard
Date Introduced : February 4, 1998
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Sections 1, 5 and 7 of Chapter 544 of the 1923 Public Laws entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Kingston Fire District in the Town of South Kingstown" are hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 1. All that portion of the town of South Kingstown which is bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of centerlines of Kingstown Road and Ministerial Road, thence running southerly along the centerline of Ministerial Road two thousand (2,000) feet, thence running true east approximately three thousand (3,000) feet to a point on the Old Kingston Fire District Boundary, said point being two thousand two hundred (2,200) feet more or less south of the centerline of Kingstown Road, thence running true south to a point five hundred (500) feet south of the southerly boundary of a New England Electric Company power line easement, thence running easterly along a line five hundred (500) feet south of the southern centerline of Kingstown, Road, thence running true north five hundred (500) feet to the southern boundary of the power line easement, thence running easterly along the southern boundary of the power line easement approximately eight hundred (800) feet to the centerline of Kingstown Road, thence running northwesterly along the centerline of Kingstown Road approximately seven hundred (700) feet to a point on the westerly extension of the southerly line of the University of Rhode Island, East Farm, thence running in an easterly direction along the southerly boundary of East Farm to a point one thousand (1,000) feet northeasterly from Kingstown Road, thence running northeasterly to the intersection Mitchell's Brook and the centerline of Mooresfield Road, thence running in a northwesterly direction to the intersection of North Road and Wolf Rocks Road, thence running southwesterly to a point on the centerline of Plains Road five hundred (500) feet northeasterly of the centerline of Kingstown Road and Plains Road intersection, thence southwesterly along the centerline of Plains Road to the point of beginning on Kingstown Road, is hereby incorporated into a fire district to be called the "Kingston Fire District". {ADD Said district may have a common seal, sue and be sued and enjoy the other powers generally incident to corporations. ADD}
Sec. 5. Said electors at any of their legal meetings shall have
power to order such taxes, and provide for assessing and collecting
the same, on the taxable inhabitants and property in said district
as they shall deem necessary for purchasing and procuring real
estate, buildings and implements, apparatus, other equipment and
a supply of water for the extinguishment of fire, for constructing
cisterns and reservoirs, laying waterpipes and purchasing rights
to lay the same, for the purpose of lighting the street in said
district with electricity or otherwise, for the payment of there
current expenses of said district, the payment of such police
force as they may deem necessary for the protection of the inhabitants
of said district from fires and for the preservation of the public
peace therein and also for the payment of any indebtedness that
has been or may be incurred by said district. Such taxes so ordered
shall be assessed by the assessors of said district on the taxable
inhabitants and property therein according to the last valuation
made by the assessors of the town next previous to said assessment,
adding, however, any taxable property which may have been omitted
by said town assessors or which may have been since acquired;
and in all cases where the town assessors have included property
within said district and property without said district in one
valuation, the assessors of said district shall make an equitable
valuation of that portion of the same lying within said district;
and in the assessing and collecting of said taxes such proceedings
shall be had by the officers of said district, as near as may
be, as are required to be had by the corresponding officers to
towns in this state in assessing and collecting town taxes assessed
for said district have the same powers and authorities as are
now by law conferred upon collectors of taxes for towns in this
state. Said district may provide for any such deduction from
the tax assessed against any person if paid by an appointed time,
or for such penalty by way of percentage on the tax if not paid
at an appointed time, as they shall deem necessary to insure punctual
payment {DEL . DEL} {ADD , which penalty shall not exceed that
provided by law to be charged by the cities and towns of the state
on property taxes assessed by them. ADD}
Sec 7. Said elector shall have power to enact by-laws prescribing
the duties of fire wardens and the several officers and committees
of said district, and of the inhabitants of said district in time
of conflagration, and to enforce obedience to the commands of
the fire wardens for suppressing disorder and tumult, guarding
or removing property or rendering other services in time of fire,
and also for the protection of the water pipes, hose, hydrants
or other apparatus or property of said district and for the preservation
of order and the public peace in said district; and said electors
may provide for the breach of any such by-law a penalty consisting
of a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, to be recovered for the
use of said district, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding
thirty days, or both, which penalty may be enforced by prosecution
on complaint and warrant in the district court of the {DEL second DEL}
{ADD fourth ADD} judicial district.
SECTION 2. Chapter 544 of the Revised Public Laws of 1923, entitled "An act to incorporate the Kingston Fire District in the Town of South Kingstown" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sections:
{ADD Section 14. The District may have a common seal, and in its corporate name, may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend, in any court and elsewhere and enjoy all the other powers generally incident to corporations. Every suit whether in law or equity, brought by the district shall be brought in the name of the district unless otherwise directed by law. Every suit whether in law or equity, brought against, the district shall be brought in the County of Washington unless otherwise directed by law. ADD}
{ADD Section 15. The District may from time to time make and ordain all ordinances, by-laws bond regulations for the District that shall not be in conflict with or in violation of other provisions of this act and not repugnant to law. ADD}
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.
