NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 622

HOUSE BILL 1144

 

 

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ART, CULTURE AND HISTORY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A THEATER ARTS DIVISION.

 

Whereas, the value of outdoor dramas to the cultural and economic life of the State are well known; and

Whereas, all living theater contributes to the vitality of the State; and

Whereas, there exists a great need to provide both economic and managerial support for some theater operations; and

Whereas, the State has been providing only economic support in a fragmental manner in the past; Now, therefore.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the Department of Art, Culture and History a sum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1973, and the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1974, to establish a Theater Arts Division of the Department of Art, Culture and History. The Theater Arts Division shall provide both managerial and economic aid, when needed and requested by established drama organizations whether existing on the effective date of this act or established thereafter, with precedence being given to outdoor dramas.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of May, 1973.