§ 113-315.28. Purposes of Authority. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 113‑315.28. Purposes of Authority.

Through the Authority hereinbefore created, the State of North Carolinamay engage in promoting, developing, constructing, equipping, maintaining andoperating the seafood industrial parks within the State, or within thejurisdiction of the State, and works of internal improvements incident thereto,including the acquisition or construction, maintenance and operation as suchseafood industrial parks of watercraft and facilities thereon or essential forthe proper operation thereof. Said Authority is created as an instrumentalityof the State of North Carolina for the accomplishment of the following generalpurposes:

(1)        To develop and improve the Wanchese Seafood Industrial Park,and such other places, including inland ports and facilities, as may be deemedfeasible for a more expeditious and efficient handling of seafood commerce fromand to any place or places in the State of North Carolina and other states andforeign countries;

(2)        To acquire, construct, equip, maintain, develop and improvethe port facilities at said parks and to improve such portions of the waterwaysthereat as are within the jurisdiction of the federal government and thewaterways connecting the Wanchese Seafood Industrial Park with the channels of commerceof the Atlantic Ocean, consistent with the project designed by the UnitedStates Army Corps of Engineers pursuant to the Manteo (Shallowbag) Baynavigation project as authorized in the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1970 (P.L. 91‑611);

(3)        To foster and stimulate the shipment of seafood commercethrough said ports, whether originating within or without the State of NorthCarolina, including the investigation and handling of matters pertaining to alltransportation rates and rate structures affecting the same;

(4)        To cooperate with the United States of America and anyagency, department, corporation or instrumentality thereof in the maintenance,development, improvement and use of said seafood harbors and the waterwaysconnecting the parks with the channels of commerce of the Atlantic Ocean;

(5)        To accept funds from any of said counties or cities whereinsaid ports are located and to use the same in such manner, within the purposesof said Authority, as shall be stipulated by the said county or city, and toact as agent or instrumentality of any of said counties or cities in any mattercoming within the general purposes of said Authority;

(5a)      To encourage and develop the general maritime and marine‑relatedindustries and activities at or in the vicinity of the seafood industrialparks;

(6)        And in general to do and perform any act or function whichmay tend to be useful toward the development and improvement of seafoodindustrial parks of the State of North Carolina, and to increase the movementof waterborne seafood commerce, foreign and domestic, to, through, and fromsaid seafood industrial parks.

The enumeration of the above purposes shall not limit or circumscribethe broad objective of developing to the utmost the seafood possibilities ofthe State of North Carolina. (1979, c. 459, s. 4; 1993, c. 278, s. 1; 1998‑212, s. 15.5(a).)