NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 952

HOUSE BILL 339

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF OYSTERS AND CLAMS IN PUBLIC WATERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Economic Resources, or its successor, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for each fiscal year of the biennium for the purpose of increasing oyster, clam and other shellfish populations in the public waters of the State of North Carolina in a manner which, in the discretion of the department, will provide the greatest economic benefit to the shellfish industry of the State.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

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