A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide funding for a green visitor center in wilkes county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Reserve for Visitor Center account in the State treasury the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for fiscal year 2009‑2010 to be used to construct an environmentally friendly visitor's center in Wilkes County.
SECTION 2.  G.S. 20‑79.7(c)(2) reads as rewritten:
"(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 421 in Wilkes County, ($100,000)."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.