NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 990

HOUSE BILL 1004

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO THE LIBRARY RESOURCES PROGRAM.

 

Whereas, the public library is an essential educational and cultural institution; and

Whereas, the report of a legislative commission to study library support recommended in 1968 that the General Assembly affirm the principle that all citizens of North Carolina should have available to them adequate modern public library services and facilities, and that it is the responsibility of the State to share with local government the basic cost of reaching these; and

Whereas, the legislative commission recommended that the State should gradually assume equal responsibility for the costs of public library service with annual increases in State grants; and

Whereas, the annual increases have been retarded by recent financial conditions; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to Public Libraries‑Subprogram for the fiscal year 1977-78 fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and for the fiscal year 1978-79 fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in addition to the amounts specified in J‑41 (p.81) Department of Cultural Resources, Library Resources-Program, Services to Public Libraries-Subprogram, General Fund Appropriation.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.