NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 547

HOUSE BILL 538

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 113-35 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT FOREST TREE SEEDLINGS AND SEED MAY BE SOLD TO COMMERCIAL NURSERYMEN BY THE STATE UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 113-35, as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended by rewriting the fourth sentence thereof to read as follows:

"When the State Forester determines that a surplus of seedlings or seed exists, this surplus may be sold, and such sale shall be in conformity with the following priority of sale: first, to agencies of the federal government for planting in the State of North Carolina; second, to commercial nurseries and nurserymen within this State; and third, without distinction, to federal agencies, to other states, and to recognized research organizations for planting either within or outside of this State."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of May, 1973.