SECTION 1. Section 3 of the act to incorporate Shelter Harbor Fire District, passed at the January session of the Rhode Island general assembly 1937, and as amended in the general assembly in 1985, 1991 and 1993 is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 3. The first meeting of said fire district shall be held on the second Saturday of July A.D. 1937, at 8 o'clock p.m., at some convenient place within said fire district and may be called by any five (5) or more persons qualified to vote therein as provided in section 2 hereof. The annual meeting of said fire district for the election of officers and the transaction of any other business of said fire district shall be held on the second Saturday of August in 1938 and annually thereafter on the date set by the bylaws of the Shelter Harbor Fire District. Twenty percent (20%) of the qualified voters, as established by the clerk in accordance with the bylaws, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any regular meeting of said corporation.

SECTION 2. Section 9 of the act to incorporate the Shelter Harbor Fire District, passed at the January session of the Rhode Island general assembly 1937, and as amended in the general assembly in 1985, 1991, and 1993 is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 9. Said corporation at any legal meeting shall have power to make bylaws prescribing the duties of firewards, and the other officers, and the inhabitants of said fire district, in times of conflagration, and for the purpose of forcing obedience to the commands of the firewards for suppressing disorder and tumult, guarding and removing property, or rendering other services in time of fire; and also for the protection of water pipes within said fire district, and for the protection of hydrants, safety valves, water gates, hose, electric light wires, poles, or other apparatus or property of the district; and also such other rules and regulations as said corporation may prescribe for connecting with and using its drains and sewers by any person; and also sanitary rules, regulations and ordinances for the protection of the lives and health of its inhabitants; and for the breach of any such bylaws, rules, regulations or ordinances, may provide a penalty not exceeding a fine of twenty dollars ($20.00) to be recovered to the use of said fire district, or imprisonment, for a term not exceeding thirty (30) days, which penalty may be enforced by prosecution on complaint of any officer of said fire district, or any state or town officer before the district court of the Fourth Division D district Ccourt of the third judicial district, and in all such prosecutions the officer bringing the same shall be exempt from furnishing recognizance or surety for costs.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.