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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2015

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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

     Referred To: Senate Housing & Municipal Government

     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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