NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 1190
HOUSE BILL 1086

AN ACT TO EXPAND THE SALT MARSH MOSQUITO CONTROL PROGRAM BY DRAINAGE AND DIKING MARSH LANDS.

WHEREAS, the drainage and diking of salt marshes has proven most effective in long-range mosquito control; and
WHEREAS, those Sections of eastern North Carolina having salt marshes must be drained and diked to achieve the status in health, comfort and prosperity enjoyed by the rest of North Carolina: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  In addition to all other appropriations made at the 1961 Session of the General Assembly, there is hereby appropriated to the North Carolina State Board of Health, out of the General Fund of the State, the sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1961, and ending July 30, 1962, and the sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1962, and ending June 30, 1963, to be expended for improvements in drainage, filling and diking in order that the salt marsh mosquito control program may be expanded to include salt marsh drainage.
Sec. 2.  Funds herein appropriated shall not be given to mosquito control districts or other local governmental units except as provided in Section 209, Chapter 130 of the General Statutes.
Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of June, 1961.