NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 1067

HOUSE BILL 1041

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A PINE MOUSE RESEARCH LABORATORY AT MOUNTAIN HORTICULTURAL CROPS RESEARCH STATION, FLETCHER, NORTH CAROLINA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund through the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, at North Carolina State University, to the Department of Horticultural Science, Plant Pathology and Zoology, in addition to all other appropriations, a total sum of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1977, and ending June 30, 1978, and fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1978, and ending June 30, 1979, for the purpose of constructing and operating a modular building at Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station, Fletcher, North Carolina. These monies are to be used for research in developing pine mouse control techniques and procedures for the protection of orchards in North Carolina by the Pine Research Laboratory according to the following schedule:

1.      Construction of 25' by 80' building                                       $25,000

2.      Operating funds for research laboratory for 1977-78, 1978-79 and ensuing year                                                                 3,500

3.      Salary for research technician for 1977-78, 1978-79 and ensuing year                                                                11,500

Sec. 2.  Funds appropriated pursuant to this act shall be used as specified in this act. Such funds not assigned as provided herein shall revert to the General Fund.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.