NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION
CHAPTER 986
SENATE BILL 176
AN ACT TO CREATE A 2 YEAR SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT EAST CAROLINA COLLEGE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The Board of Trustees of East Carolina College is hereby authorized to create a School of Medicine at East Carolina College, Greenville, North Carolina.
Sec. 2. The School of Medicine shall meet all requirements and regulations of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association, The Association of American Medical Colleges, and other such accrediting agencies whose approval is normally required for the establishment and operation of a two year medical school.
Sec. 3. The North Carolina General Assembly shall appropriate a sum not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1965, and two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1966 for payment of current expenses involved in the organization and operation of said medical school; provided, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) herein appropriated for the first year of the biennium shall be used for the purpose of employing a Dean or other competent personnel to determine whether or not a satisfactory curriculum can be devised which will meet the accreditation standards of the Council of Medical Education and the American Association of Medical Schools and Colleges, and that if and when those two accrediting associations shall indicate that the proposed two year medical school will be accredited, that the two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) appropriated for the second year of the biennium shall be available during the said second year for the purpose of employing necessary personnel, professors and others to implement the school.
Sec. 4. The North Carolina General Assembly shall appropriate an amount not to exceed one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for capital improvements for the medical school, provided: this appropriation for capital improvements shall be contingent upon the securing of four million dollars ($4,000,000) additional funds for capital improvements from sources other than the General Fund of the State of North Carolina, or such lesser amount as may be recommended by the accrediting agencies required for the establishment of said school, the sum herein appropriated shall not be made available until the proposed curriculum has met the approval of the accrediting agencies required for the establishment of said school. Further provided that if the conditions imposed by Section 3 and Section 4 have not been met by January 1, 1967, and accreditation granted, the Board of Higher Education shall study the proposal for a medical school at said college and first give its approval thereto before said college shall continue or implement any program for a two or four year school of medicine.
Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1965.