| LA 060 |
| 2015 -- S 0037 Enacted 05/07/2015 |
| A N A C T |
| IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HOPKINS HILL ROAD FIRE DISTRICT |
| Introduced By: Senators Raptakis, Kettle, and Morgan |
| Date Introduced: January 13, 2015 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 3 of an act passed at the January session, 1955, of the General |
| Assembly entitled "An Act To Incorporate The Hopkins Hill Road Fire District," as amended, is |
| hereby further amended to read as follows: |
| Section 3. Annual meetings of the corporation shall be held on the first Saturday of May |
| second Monday of September at 7:00 p.m. at the fire station on Bestwick Trail off of Hopkins |
| Hill Road or at such other place as the Executive Committee may designate. Upon written |
| application to the clerk by twenty (20) or more qualified and registered voters of the district, or by |
| order of the Executive Committee, said clerk shall call a special meeting giving such notice as |
| provided in the by-laws and the General Laws of Rhode Island. Any application signed by the |
| twenty or more qualified and registered voters, must set forth and define with specificity the |
| precise business which is to be discussed at said meeting and no other business can be addressed |
| other than that which appears in the petition and has otherwise, been placed upon the agenda. No |
| Special Meeting shall be called without the consent of the Executive Committee if the subject or |
| any of the subjects proposed to be considered at such special meeting shall have been acted upon |
| by a district meeting, either annual or special, within six (6) months previous to the time of such |
| proposed call. No Special Meeting shall be called without the consent of the Executive |
| Committee if the purpose is to amend or modify the annual budget approved at the most recent |
| annual meeting. All meetings will have a seven (7) day notice of said meeting, stating the time, |
| place, and purpose thereof, and signed by five (5) or more qualified voters of said district, shall be |
| given by posting the same in three (3) or more public places in the district, at least one week |
| before said meeting, and by publishing the same one week prior to said meeting in some |
| newspaper published in the County of Kent. Twenty (20) qualified electors of said district shall |
| constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the corporation, legally |
| called. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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