CHAPTER 5


97-H 6444
Effective Without the Governor's Signature
Feb. 21, 1997


AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 544 OF THE REVISED PUBLIC LAWS OF 1923, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE KINGSTON FIRE DISTRICT IN THE TOWN OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN," AND OF ALL ACTS IN AMENDMENT THEREOF AND IN ADDITION THERETO

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows

SECTION 1. Sections 1 and 6 of chapter 544 of the revised public laws of 1923, entitled "An act to incorporate the Kingston Fire district in the town of South Kingstown," as amended, are hereby further 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 boundary of the power line easement to the western edge of the Union Fire District, said point being one thousand (1,000) feet west of the 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 of 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 "Kingstown 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. 6. Said electors at any of their legal meetings may authorize and empower the treasurer of said district to borrow money for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects for which said district is incorporated, to give the note or notes of said district for the money so borrowed and to give renewals thereof; provided, however, that at no time shall the note or notes and renewals of notes outstanding in pursuance of such authority exceed in the aggregate the sum of {DEL twenty-three thousand dollars ($23,000) DEL} {ADD two million dollars ($2,000,000). ADD}

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage, and all acts, parts of acts, and by-laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.



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