NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1981 SESSION
CHAPTER 1078
HOUSE BILL 636
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO THE NORTH CAROLINA AGENCY FOR PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR ITS MEDIA OPERATIONS.
Whereas, the North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications was created to develop ways of using modern telecommunications to deliver public services in the most cost effective way; and
Whereas, APT was charged to coordinate and centralize media production and distribution so as to curtail proliferation and duplication of media facilities for the delivery of public services; and
Whereas, APT has identified State media equipment needs so that public services can be delivered more efficiently; and
Whereas, APT has some funds in hand; and has in prospect the receipt of funds mostly from nonstate sources sufficient to establish the core of a media production and distribution facility for State use; and
Whereas, APT was established not only as a State agency but also as a nonprofit corporation intended to bring in revenues in support of its continuance; and
Whereas, a substantial part of APT's revenues may be expected to result from receipts for media services from other public agencies; and
Whereas, technical personnel are required to establish and maintain the media equipment; and
Whereas, a State appropriation invested in technical personnel will enable APT to bring in revenues which can in future years support such personnel; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. There is appropriated to the Department of Administration from the General Fund the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for fiscal year 1981-82 for the media operations of the North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications.
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.