GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1808*

Short Title:  Nash Forestry Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representative Tolson.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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May 30, 2000

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR FORESTRY EQUIPMENT AND TO ESTABLISH A FORESTRY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR POSITION FOR NASH COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Forest Resources, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the sum of four hundred thirty-one thousand three hundred seven dollars ($431,307) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year for Nash County for equipment and personnel needed due to an increase in damage to woodlands caused by forest fires and recent severe storms.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$200,000 shall be used for the purchase of a tractor.
(2)	$25,000 shall be used for the purchase of a low-boy trailer.
(3)	$10,000 shall be used for the purchase of a fire plow.
(4)	$65,000 shall be used for the purchase of a truck tractor.
(5)	$100,000 shall be used to construct an equipment shelter approximately 2,800 square feet in size.
(6)	$31,307 shall be used to establish and maintain a forestry equipment operator position in Nash County.
Section 2.  The appropriation under Section 1 of this act is conditioned upon Nash County providing the sum of twenty thousand eight hundred seventy-two dollars ($20,872) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year for the forestry equipment operator position in Nash County, which sum represents a forty percent (40%) match in county funds to sixty percent (60%) in State funds for that position.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2000.