A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to washington county for the construction and operation of a visitors center in that county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the Highway Fund to Washington County the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year for the construction and operation of a Visitors Center in Washington County.
SECTION 2.  G.S. 20‑79.7(c)(2) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	Use of Funds in Special Registration Plate Account. –
(1)	The Division shall deduct the costs of special registration plates, including the costs of issuing, handling, and advertising the availability of the special plates, from the Special Registration Plate Account.
(2)	From the funds remaining in the Special Registration Plate Account after the deductions in accordance with subdivision (1) of this subsection, there is annually appropriated from the Special Registration Plate Account the sum of one million one hundred thousand dollars  ($1,100,000) to provide operating assistance for the Visitor Centers:
a.	on U.S. Highway 17 in Camden County, ($100,000);
b.	on U.S. Highway 17 in Brunswick County, ($100,000);
c.	on U.S. Highway 441 in Macon County, ($100,000);
d.	in the Town of Boone, Watauga County, ($100,000);
e.	on U.S. Highway 29 in Caswell County, ($100,000);
f.	on U.S. Highway 70 in Carteret County, ($100,000);
g.	on U.S. Highway 64 in Tyrrell County, ($100,000);
h.	at the intersection of U.S. Highway 701 and N.C. 904 in Columbus County, ($100,000);
i.	on U.S. Highway 221 in McDowell County, ($100,000); j.	on Staton Road in Transylvania County,  ($100,000); and
k.	on U.S. Highway 64 in Washington County, ($100,000)."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.