NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1100

HOUSE BILL 857

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND/OR OPERATION OF CERTAIN FARMERS' MARKETS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the Cumberland County Farmers' Produce and Craft Market, Inc., from the General Fund, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for fiscal year 1977-78, to be used by the corporation for the operation of a farmers' market on Southern Avenue in the City of Fayetteville.

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture to be used in completing the Western North Carolina Farmers' Market at Asheville the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for fiscal year 1978-79 (originated in HB 1055/SB 625).

Sec. 3.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Town of Carrboro the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for fiscal year 1977-78 to be used by the town for the construction and operation of a farmers' market. This appropriation is contingent upon the Town of Carrboro matching this appropriation by entering into a lease or purchase agreement which commits the town to pay at least twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to acquire a tract of land that may be used as the site of the farmers' market. The Town of Carrboro is hereby authorized to construct and operate a farmers' market and for this purpose may appropriate funds not otherwise limited as to use by law (originated in HB 1467).

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.