GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 706
SENATE BILL 1667

AN ACT AUTHORIZING UNION AND COLUMBUS COUNTIES TO ESTABLISH A TOURISM BOARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF TRAVEL AND TOURISM WITHIN THE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  A county Board of Commissioners may by resolution establish a tourism board to promote travel and tourism within the County.  The board shall be created pursuant to G.S. 158-8, except that the membership, duration of service, powers, and duties of the board shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Commissioners.  The resolution establishing a tourism board may be modified, amended, or repealed in the same manner as it was originally adopted.  G.S. 158-7.1 and G.S. 158-12 authorize the County Board of Commissioners to appropriate funds not otherwise limited as to use by law for the purpose of promoting travel and tourism within the County.
Sec. 2.  This act applies only to Columbus and Union Counties.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 1994.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives