GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 2215*

Short Title:  Economic Development Publications.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Gibson.
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Referred to:  Commerce.
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May 31, 1990

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ALLOW PRIVATE FUNDS TO BE USED FOR THE COSTS OF PUBLISHING AND DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION AIMED AT ENCOURAGING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 143B-435 reads as rewritten:
"§ 143B-435.  Publications.
The Department of Economic and Community Development may also cause to be prepared for publication, from time to time, reports and statements, with illustrations, maps and other descriptions, which may adequately set forth the natural and material resources of the State and its industrial and commercial developments, with a view to furnishing information to educate the people with reference to the material advantages of the State, to encourage and foster existing industries, and to present inducements for investment in new enterprises.  Such information shall be published and distributed as the Department of Economic and Community Development may direct.  The costs of publishing and distributing such information shall be paid from:
(1)	State funds as other public documents; or
(2)	Private funds received:
a.	As donations, or
b.	From the sale of appropriate advertising in such published information."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.