Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 144

AN ACT APPROPRIATING MONEY TO CERTAIN FIRE COMPANIES IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE WHICH MAINTAIN AND OPERATE AN AMBULANCE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware (three-fourths of all the Members elected to each House thereof concurring therein):

Section 1. To each and every fire company in the State of Delaware, outside the limits of the City of Wilmington, which does on the first day of June, 1959, maintain and operate and does continue to maintain and operate an ambulance for the purpose of public service, there is appropriated the sum of $750 annually for each of the fiscal years beginning July 1, 1959, and beginning July 1, 1960, to be used for the maintenance and operation of said ambulance in the public service.

The said sum of $750 shall be paid by the State Treasurer to each of the said fire companies maintaining and operating an ambulance in the public service within three months after the beginning of each of said fiscal years; and a certificate of the Secretary of Delaware Volunteer Firemen's Association to the effect that a fire company did on the first day of June, 1959, and does continue to maintain and operate an ambulance in the public service shall be sufficient authority for the payment of said sum of $750 by the State Treasurer to said fire company.

Section 2. This Act is a supplementary appropriation and the money appropriated shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the General Fund of the State of Delaware.

Approved July 9, 1959.