NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1060

HOUSE BILL 424

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A GRANT-IN-A1D TO HISTORIC CABARRUS, INC., IN CABARRUS COUNTY.

 

Whereas, Historic Cabarrus, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation responsible for the restoration and adaptive reuse of the old Cabarrus County Courthouse; and

Whereas, the old Cabarrus County Courthouse is one of North Carolina's outstanding examples of the Second Empire style of architecture; and

Whereas, the century old courthouse in Concord has been listed by the United States Department of the Interior in the National Register of Historic Places; and

Whereas, Historic Cabarrus, Inc., has leased the old Courthouse from Cabarrus County for adaptive reuse as a community arts center; and

Whereas, Historic Cabarrus, Inc., has raised more than one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) in actual contributions and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in donated materials for emergency repairs; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for the 1981-82 fiscal year the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the purpose of the interior and exterior restoration and rehabilitation of the old Cabarrus County Courthouse, provided an amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is raised by Historic Cabarrus, Inc., in order to match the grant-in-aid on a dollar for dollar basis. The corporation may apply to the division from time to time for the funds appropriated under this act as it raises the matching funds.

Sec. 2. Funds appropriated in this act shall be expended only in accordance with G.S. 121-11 and G.S. 143-31.2.

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.