NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 966

SENATE BILL 862

 

 

AN ACT TO FUND NAVIGATION AND BEACH RESTORATION PROJECTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development the sum of three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) in fiscal year 1979-80 and three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) in fiscal year 1980-81 as a Reserve for Navigation and Beach Restoration Projects.

Sec. 2.  In the event unanticipated General Fund revenues are realized during the 1979-81 biennium as a result of statutes enacted by the 1979 General Assembly, up to two million eight hundred thousand dollars ($2,800,000) of such unanticipated revenues is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year or years in which the revenues accumulate to the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development for statewide beach restoration, and with the approval of the Director of the Budget and the Advisory Budget Commission, the Department may use these funds to meet the matching requirements of a federal grant or grants for statewide beach restoration.

Sec. 3.  No funds appropriated in this act or any other State funds shall be expended for beach restoration projects or for grants for beach restoration, for any beaches where, in the opinion of the Department, reasonably adequate public access to the State owned portion of the ocean beach is not available.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.