A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for farmland preservation.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the North Carolina Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund under G.S. 106‑744 the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to be used for the acquisition of agricultural conservation easements or for the preservation of farmland as provided in Article 61 of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.