NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1141

HOUSE BILL 421

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION FOR SUPPORT OF RESEARCH IN THE BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT FOR PROTECTION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

WHEREAS, tobacco as a farm crop and as a manufactured product is very important to the economy of North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, research and study into the possible means of improving tobacco products have been conducted at North Carolina State University at Raleigh; and

WHEREAS, this research has of late been concentrated in the area of reduction of nicotine and tar content of tobacco products and in the area of lowering of burning temperatures of tobacco products; and

WHEREAS, the success of this general research project depends in large part upon the prompt availability of funds clearly earmarked for this study;

NOW, THEREFORE,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State of North Carolina to the North Carolina State University Agricultural Experiment Station, in addition to all other appropriations, the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00) per year for each year of the 1969-1971 biennium exclusively for the purpose of conducting, in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, research and experimentation with tobacco and tobacco products for the purpose of producing tobacco products with a reduced nicotine and tar content and a lowered burning temperature or other characteristics likely to make the products more readily commercially marketable.

Sec. 2.  No funds herein appropriated shall be used for any purpose other than those set out herein. All funds herein appropriated not used for this purpose on or before July 1, 1971, shall be returned to the General Fund of the State.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1969.