NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1462

HOUSE BILL 1506

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO THE NORTH CAROLINA COTTON QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE THE MARKETABILITY OF AND INCREASE THE INCOME FROM COTTON PRODUCED IN NORTH CAROLINA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the North Carolina State University Agricultural Experiment Station for the North Carolina Cotton Quality Improvement Committee out of the General Fund of the State the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1974.

Sec. 2.  Said sums are to be used by the North Carolina Cotton Quality Improvement Committee in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and North Carolina State University for the purchase of materials and supplies, printing, etc., to increase the production and marketability of North Carolina cotton, for purchase or contract of necessary equipment and costs of renting and transporting machinery to conduct on-farm tests aimed at reducing cost of production, harvesting and ginning, and programs and activities to increase, improve and promote cotton in North Carolina.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective on and after July 1, 1974.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1974.