[Adopted 1-1933]
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An Act incorporating the Georgetown Fire
District in the Towns of Wilton, Redding and Weston.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
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All of the electors of this state, inhabitants
of the Towns of Wilton, Redding or Weston, dwelling within the following
described limits of said towns: Commencing at a point where the Weston-Redding
town line meets the westerly side of the Saugatuck River, thence following
the westerly side of said river in a northerly direction to the school
district boundary-line separating Diamond Hill and Little Boston School
districts near Burr's Corner, thence following said line separating
said school districts in a westerly direction to the Florida School
District line, thence southerly following said Florida School District
line to the Ridgefield town line, thence continuing southerly following
said Ridgefield town line (being the Ridgefield-Redding town line)
to the Wilton town line, thence westerly following the Wilton town
line (being the Wilton-Ridgefield town line), to the westerly line
of Wilton School District No. 10, thence southerly and easterly following
said school district line to the Weston-Wilton town line, thence easterly
to a point on the Georgetown-Weston state road where said road crosses
Samuelson's brook, so called, at the center line of said brook, thence
continuing easterly following said center line of said brook to a
tributary brook flowing from the north into said Samuelson's brook,
thence northerly following the center line of said tributary brook
and continuing northerly in a straight line to the Weston-Redding
town line, and thence easterly following said town line to the point
of beginning, are constituted a body politic by the name of Georgetown
Fire District, and shall be an entity in law capable of suing and
being sued in all Courts, and of purchasing, holding and conveying
any estate, real and personal, and may have a common seal and alter
or change the same.
Said corporation is authorized to provide for
the extinguishment of fires and to lease, accept, take over or purchase
land within its limits and to erect or cause to be erected upon such
land a building or buildings for the housing of all fire apparatus
owned by it or by any fire department located therein, and for the
accommodation of members of such fire department, which building or
buildings may also be used for district meetings; and said corporation
may also accept, take over or purchase any apparatus deemed necessary
or advisable by it for use in the extinguishing of fires in said district.
Said corporation is authorized to hold meetings
at any point within said district for the performance of the purposes
of said corporation and to fix the compensation of such officers and
other agents of the corporation as may be needed for the performance
of the work incidental to the carrying on of the objects herein authorized.
The officers of said district and their powers
and duties, except as herein provided, shall bear the same relation
to the purposes for which said district is incorporated, as officers
of school districts and their powers and duties bear to the School
District affairs and except as otherwise provided, the laws relating
to school districts (mutatis mutandus) shall apply to said Georgetown
Fire District.
The first meeting of said Georgetown Fire District
shall be held on the 12th day of June, 1933, at 7:00 p.m., eastern
standard time. Benjamin B. Banks, Arthur A. Smith and David T. Wahlquist,
shall be a committee to call said first meeting of said district by
posting a notice designating said time and the place of holding the
same, on the sign post in each of said towns of Wilton, Redding and
Weston five days before the time designated in said notice for the
holding of such meeting, and one of said committee shall preside at
such meeting until a presiding officer shall be chosen. Such meeting
shall proceed to organize and elect officers who shall serve until
the next annual meeting of said Fire District and until others shall
be elected and shall have qualified in their stead. Any any meeting
of the District, a majority of the electors present shall be sufficient
to transact business.
The annual meeting of said District shall be
held on the second Tuesday of June, in each year, at seven o'clock
in the evening, eastern standard time.
