[Adopted 3-11-1987 by Ord. No. 673 (Ch. 125, Art. X, of the 1975 Township Code)]
A. 
The Township of North Huntingdon is hereby designated as being one fire protection district.
B. 
The official designation of the fire protection district shall be referred to as the "Township of North Huntingdon Fire District."
For the expenses of fire protection, the Township of North Huntingdon hereby levies a special tax, based upon the assessment for county purposes for general taxation, in the amount of 3/20 mills ($0.00015) for each dollar of assessed value upon all taxable real property within the Township of North Huntingdon for the year 1987 and, for the years 1988 and thereafter, in an amount to be determined annually by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of North Huntingdon.
[Added 2-2017 by Ord. No. 2225]
Effective January 1, 2017, the Tax Office of North Huntingdon is directed where a minimum amount of tax, lower than $1, that the Tax Collector shall state that there is no tax due on any tax bills issued for such a de minimis amount.
The taxes imposed by this article shall be collected in the same manner as the taxes of the Township of North Huntingdon.
In the event that the taxes levied by § 494-26 of this article fail to provide for expenses of the fire protection district of the Township of North Huntingdon, said Township is hereby authorized to include such expenses in the annual budgets of said Township and to fix the amounts to be appropriated from revenues available for the specific purpose of maintaining the fire protection district.