There are hereby created and established forty-six several respective forestry districts for fire protection of the forests of South Carolina. Each of the several respective forestry districts shall be composed of one of the several respective counties of the State of South Carolina, and shall be as follows and so numbered and designated, to wit:

Forestry District No. 1Abbeville County Forestry District No. 2Aiken County Forestry District No. 3Allendale County Forestry District No. 4Anderson County Forestry District No. 5Bamberg County Forestry District No. 6Barnwell County Forestry District No. 7Beaufort County Forestry District No. 8Berkeley County Forestry District No. 9Calhoun County Forestry District No. 10Charleston County Forestry District No. 11Cherokee County Forestry District No. 12Chester County Forestry District No. 13Chesterfield County Forestry District No. 14Clarendon County Forestry District No. 15Colleton County Forestry District No. 16Darlington County Forestry District No. 17Dillon County Forestry District No. 18Dorchester County Forestry District No. 19Edgefield County Forestry District No. 20Fairfield County Forestry District No. 21Florence County Forestry District No. 22Georgetown County Forestry District No. 23Greenville County Forestry District No. 24Greenwood County Forestry District No. 25Hampton County Forestry District No. 26Horry County Forestry District No. 27Jasper County Forestry District No. 28Kershaw County Forestry District No. 29Lancaster County Forestry District No. 30Laurens County Forestry District No. 31Lee County Forestry District No. 32Lexington County Forestry District No. 33Marion County Forestry District No. 34Marlboro County Forestry District No. 35McCormick County Forestry District No. 36Newberry County Forestry District No. 37Oconee County Forestry District No. 38Orangeburg County Forestry District No. 39Pickens County Forestry District No. 40Richland County Forestry District No. 41Saluda County Forestry District No. 42Spartanburg County Forestry District No. 43Sumter County Forestry District No. 44Union County Forestry District No. 45Williamsburg County Forestry District No. 46York County

Each forestry district enumerated and designated herein shall have the same territory and territorial boundaries as the county which it represents and in which it is located.