NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1189

HOUSE BILL 854

 

 

AN ACT PROVIDING FUNDS FOR RESEARCH AND RESEARCH FACILITIES IN THE SCIENCES, PURE AND APPLIED, THE LIBERAL AND FINE ARTS, AND IN THE LEARNED PROFESSIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  For the purpose of carrying out those provisions of Chapter 116, Section 15, of the General Statutes of North Carolina constituting the University of North Carolina as the primary State-supported agency for research in the sciences, pure and applied, and in the liberal and fine arts, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the University of North Carolina (Consolidated) — General Administration, in addition to all other appropriations, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966 and the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967.

Sec. 2.  Such funds shall be used only for pure and applied research in the fields of pure and applied science, and the liberal and fine arts, technical assistance for supporting programs, including personnel, equipment and supplies, and such other operating expenditures as may be necessary in order to carry out the objectives stated in Chapter 116, Section 15, of the General Statutes of North Carolina, and to establish and maintain at the University of North Carolina an adequate, efficient and complete system of research, with required and necessary research facilities, in the fields of pure and applied science, and in the liberal and fine arts, for the purpose and with the objective of strengthening the research competence of the University of North Carolina, and for establishing an essential base for the sound and accelerated economic growth of the State of North Carolina.

Sec. 3.  The allocation of the funds appropriated by this Act for the purpose of carrying out the objectives stated herein shall be at the sole discretion of the Consolidated University Administration.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1965.