NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 905

HOUSE BILL 59

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE.

 

Whereas, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, located in Durham, North Carolina, has, over the past 27 years, provided millions of the residents of this State with a Museum of Life and Science; and

Whereas, the museum has permanent displays of our environment, space exploration and historical data dealing with our total background; and

Whereas, the museum had 360,000 visitors representing people from 40 or more counties in the State; and

Whereas, the City and County of Durham did in 1973 furnish ninety-nine thousand dollars ($99,000) in operating costs; and

Whereas, the museum now owns 28 acres of land, has many buildings and exhibits and now needs additional funds for capital improvements and for expansion; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated for the 1976-1977 fiscal year from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources for the continuation of capital improvements and operating funds the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the use and benefit of the North Carolina Museum of Life and Sciences.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.