NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1007

HOUSE BILL 1239

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA APPLE FESTIVAL, INC., IN HENDERSON COUNTY.

 

Whereas, the North Carolina Apple Festival is one of the largest and most beautiful events held in the South each August in Henderson County; and

Whereas, the festival had its beginning in 1947, as a means of promoting the sale of apples and the local economy in Henderson County; and

Whereas, the festival is also designed to help promote the tourist industry in North Carolina; and

Whereas, the festival is sponsored by the North Carolina Apple Festival, Inc., a nonprofit corporation; and

Whereas, the festival stimulates the economic growth of western North Carolina, which is in dire need of a constant stimulant for its economy; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the North Carolina Apple Festival, Inc., the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for fiscal year 1979-1980, and five thousand dollars ($5,000) for fiscal year 1980-81, to put on the Apple Festival in Henderson County.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.