GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 172
HOUSE BILL 536

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT GASTON COUNTY MAY USE THE PROCEEDS OF ITS OCCUPANCY TAX ONLY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO PROMOTE TRAVEL AND TOURISM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 1(e) of Chapter 618 of the 1987 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"(e)	Use of tax revenue.  Gaston County may use the proceeds of an occupancy tax levied under this section only for economic development to promote travel and tourism, including administrative expenses of the county's Travel and Tourism Office.  The county shall remit the gross proceeds of the tax to the Economic Development Commission, which shall administer the use of the proceeds in accordance with this subsection."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives