NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1360

HOUSE BILL 1512

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR TESTING POULTRY FOR GUMBORO DISEASE.

 

Whereas, poultry is North Carolina's largest food industry; and

Whereas, control of poultry diseases is vital to the continued success of this industry; and

Whereas, gumboro disease is a serious threat to the poultry industry because it attacks the immune system of baby chicks, making them more susceptible to other poultry diseases, thereby promoting the spread of poultry diseases; and

Whereas, the Department of Agriculture presently lacks the equipment and supplies necessary for testing for gumboro disease; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the fiscal year 1982-83 to be used for the purchase of equipment and supplies necessary and appropriate for testing for gumboro disease in poultry.

Sec. 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 1982-83 fiscal year for an animal disease diagnostic laboratory in northwestern North Carolina.

Sec. 3. Funds appropriated in this act shall not become part of the Department's continuation budget.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 1982.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1982.