NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1129

HOUSE BILL no8

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 121-13.1 RELATING TO THE USE OF THE STATE CAPITOL LEGISLATIVE CHAMBERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The first paragraph of G.S. 121-13.1 is hereby amended by rewriting the paragraph to read as follows:

"The Legislative Chambers in the Capitol shall be placed in custody of the State Department of Archives and History to be preserved as historic shrines for the edification of the present and future generations. Insofar as practicable, the aforesaid Legislative Chambers shall be maintained and preserved in the conditions in which they now are and shall be used primarily for the purpose of historic shrines and as public attractions, and, with the consent and approval of the Governor, may be used from time to time for governmental and educational purposes; provided, however, that the General Assembly may hold such Sessions as it may by Resolution deem proper; and, provided further, that the initial and final meetings of each Regular or Special Session of the General Assembly may commence and adjourn sine die in the aforesaid Legislative Chambers as ceremony in perptuam rei memoriam."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1965.