as a levying body for the purpose of presenting to the voters of the city an election authorizing continuation of an additional city levy to maintain the present salaries of its paid fire and paid police departments, to repair and service existing fire-fighting and policeequipment and to purchase additional fire-fighting and police equipment, where necessary, from between the seventh and twenty-eighth days of March and the third Tuesday in April until the thirty-first day of May, two thousand five.
§1. Extending time for the city of Hurricane to meet as a levying body for an electionauthorizing continuation of an additional city levy to maintain present salaries of its paid fire and paid police departments, to repair and service existing fire-fighting and police equipment and to purchase additional fire-fighting and police equipment.