NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1182

SENATE BILL 822

 

 

AN ACT TO MERGE THE MOTORBOAT FUND WITH THE WILDLIFE RESOURCES FUND AND TO ELIMINATE THE NECESSITY OF SEPARATE ACCOUNTING THEREFOR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 143-250 is hereby amended by changing the period at the end of the next to last paragraph to a comma and by adding thereafter the following:

"Chapter 75A, Article 1, and Chapter 113, Subchapter IV of the General Statutes of North Carolina."

Sec. 2. Subsection (c) of G.S. 75A-3 is hereby amended by rewriting the subsection to read as follows:

"(c)       All moneys collected pursuant to the numbering provisions of this Chapter and pursuant to G.S. 105-446.2 shall be deposited in the State treasury and credited to a special fund known as the Wildlife Resources Fund as provided by G.S. 143-250. The said moneys shall be made available to the Wildlife Resources Commission, subject to the Executive Budget Act and the Personnel Act, for the administration and enforcement of this Article, for activities relating to boating and water safety including education and waterway marking and improvement, and for boating access area acquisition, development and maintenance all in accordance with plans approved by the Wildlife Resources Commission. Such funds are hereby appropriated, reserved, set aside, and made available to the Wildlife Resources Commission until expended for the purpose set forth in this Article."

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 1982.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1982.