NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 155

SENATE BILL 84

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AN ALLOTMENT TO THE COLLEGE OF THE ALBEMARLE FROM THE 1957 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION TO THE BUDGET BUREAU.

 

WHEREAS, the 1957 General Assembly appropriated from General Fund Revenues of the State seven hundred twenty thousand dollars ($720,000.00) to the Budget Bureau for the purchase of land at educational institutions; and

WHEREAS, there is remaining in this land purchase account one hundred thirty‑four thousand dollars ($134,000.00); and

WHEREAS, a community college known as the College of the Albemarle has been established at Elizabeth City, North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, Elizabeth City has acquired as a site for the College of the Albemarle the former Albemarle Hospital property located in Elizabeth City; and

WHEREAS, the College of the Albemarle needs eighty thousand dollars ($80,000.00) to renovate and equip the former Albemarle Hospital property in order to make it functional as an educational facility; and

WHEREAS, the College of the Albemarle must begin immediately the renovation and equipping of the former Albemarle Hospital property if the same is to be ready for occupancy in the fall of 1961; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Higher Education and the Advisory Budget Commission desires that the College of the Albemarle begin operation in the fall of 1961: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The Governor and Council of State are authorized and empowered to allocate to the College of the Albemarle from the 1957 Capital Improvement appropriation to the Budget Bureau for the purchase of land at educational institutions a sum not to exceed eighty thousand dollars ($80,000.00) to be used for the renovation and equipping of the former Albemarle Hospital property at Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be effective from and after the date of its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of April, 1961.