NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 1226
SENATE BILL 985

AN ACT RELATING TO FUNDS APPROPRIATED BY THE 1971 GENERAL ASSEMBLY AS MATCHING FUNDS OR FUNDS TO SUPPLEMENT FEDERAL GRANTS OR LOCAL FUNDS.

Whereas, sums of money have been appropriated from the State's General Fund by the 1971 General Assembly to provide financial aid to municipalities in the form of construction grants, by way of matching funds and to supplement federal grants or local funds for use in municipal civil works projects, including waste treatment projects as requested by the Department of Water and Air Resources and as recommended by the Advisory Budget Commission; and
Whereas, funds appropriated for said purposes to some extent may not be needed during the biennium 1971-73 depending upon the availability of federal funds or local funds; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  All funds appropriated by the 1971 General Assembly to be used as matching funds or to supplement federal grants or local funds, which appropriated funds shall for any reason not be needed for said purposes, may be reallocated by the Governor with the approval of the Advisory Budget Commission and expended for the following uses and purposes: (1) for any capital improvement purpose or project recommended to the 1971 General Assembly in the Capital Improvement Budget presented to it by the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission in January 1971, in whole or in part; and , (2) for advance planning funds for any such project or projects.
Sec. 2.  The question of whether or not the need exists for funds appropriated by the 1971 General Assembly as matching funds or supplemental funds as herein mentioned shall be determined by the Budget Division of the Department of Administration with the advice, consent and concurrence of the Governor, the Director of the Department of Administration and the State Treasurer, who is ex officio Chairman of the Local Government Commission.
Sec. 3.  This act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.