NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 914

HOUSE BILL 550

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO CHEROKEE COUNTY FOR A MUCH NEEDED SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS MARKET.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the Department of Agriculture for Cherokee County, North Carolina, out of the General Fund of the State of North Carolina the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the fiscal year 1975-76. The funds hereby appropriated shall be used for the purpose of purchasing land and building a facility to be known as the Southwestern North Carolina Farmers' Market, which will serve as a point of assembly of produce for grading, packing and shipping to other areas of the United States, and which will also serve as a livestock auction market.

Sec. 2.  The sum appropriated by Section 1 is to represent approximately twenty percent (20%) of the needed funds. The remainder is to be provided by local county government in Cherokee and adjoining counties in addition to federal sources.

Sec. 3.  The facility will be operated on a self-supporting basis governed by a board of directors aided by the chairman of the county commissioners. One member will be from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture to serve in an advisory capacity.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.