NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1081

HOUSE BILL 651

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A SURVEY OF HISTORICALLY AND ARCHITECTURALLY SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURES IN THE CITY OF BURLINGTON IN ALAMANCE COUNTY.

Whereas, the City of Burlington in Alamance County was founded about 1851 when the North Carolina Railroad established its repair shops at the site, and was first known as Company Shops until renamed Burlington in 1887; and

Whereas, the City of Burlington prospered as a center of transportation, commerce, and industry and now possesses a wide variety of historic residential, commercial, industrial, and public structures that reflect the economic and cultural growth of North Carolina through the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century; and

Whereas, the citizens of Burlington desire to identify, record, and document these structures for the purposes of planning for their continued preservation, use, enjoyment, and appreciation by the citizens of Burlington, Alamance County, and North Carolina; and

Whereas, the Historic Properties Commission of Alamance County and the Historic District Commission of Burlington have previously conducted and published a survey of historic properties elsewhere in Alamance County and desire to complete the county survey with the study of historic properties in Burlington; and

Whereas, funds are needed to conduct the survey; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for the 1981-82 fiscal year the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the purposes of conducting the survey of historically and architecturally significant structures in the City of Burlington and publishing the survey results, including compensation for the research services of a qualified principal investigator, necessary travel, photography, supplies, and printing, provided that a like amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) is raised by the Historic Properties Commission of Alamance County and the Historic Districts Commission of Burlington, in order to match the grant-in-aid on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Sec. 2. The survey shall be performed to the standards and guidelines for survey projects established by the Archaeology and Historic Preservation Section of the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, and shall be conducted under the professional supervision of that agency.

Sec. 3. Funds appropriated in this act shall be expended only in accordance with G.S. 121-11 and G.S. 143-31.2.

Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.