A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide funding for shallow draft inlet dredging to increase water safety and prevent boating accidents From SHOAL groundings.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) which shall be transferred to the Department of Transportation to be used for shallow draft inlet dredging to increase water safety and prevent boating accidents from shoal groundings. The funds set aside in this act shall be used by the Department before any unit of local government may be required to participate in a partnership or to fund any part of the inlet dredging.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.