GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	3 

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 1060
Second Edition Engrossed 5/6/93
Committee Substitute Favorable 7/14/93

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April 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
A JOINT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION TO STUDY PARTICIPATION BY CHARITABLE TRUSTS AND NONPROFIT INSTITUTIONS IN THE FARMLAND PRESERVATION PROGRAM.
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
Section 1.  The Legislative Research Commission may study the Farmland Preservation Enabling Act, Article 61 of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes, to determine whether an extension of the act to include farmland owned by a charitable trust or a nonprofit institution is consistent with the purposes of the act.  In making this study, the Commission shall determine the advantages and disadvantages, if any, of changing the act to include farmland owned by a charitable trust or a nonprofit institution.  The Commission may call upon the Department of Agriculture to cooperate with it in making this study.
Sec. 2.  The Commission shall make a final report of its recommendations on the expansion of the Farmland Preservation Enabling Act to the 1995 General Assembly and may make an interim report to the 1994 Session of the 1993 General Assembly.  If a recommendation proposes a change in the law, the report shall include draft legislation implementing the recommendation.
Sec. 3.  The Commission may conduct the study authorized by this resolution as a separate study or may include it as one of the topics to be studied by a committee of the Commission.
Sec. 4.  This resolution is effective upon ratification.