NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 922
HOUSE BILL 102

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY AT RALEIGH.

Whereas, the General Assembly of North Carolina, by Resolution 171 of the 1974 Session, requested the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina "to give special attention to the need for training additional veterinary medical practitioners for North Carolina, and to report to the General Assembly of 1975, by not later than the 30th legislative day of the session, its findings and recommendations for administrative and legislative action with respect to the extent of the need for and the most effective and economical means of training additional veterinary medical practitioners for North Carolina"; and
Whereas, the General Assembly by G.S. 116-11(3) has authorized the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina to "determine the functions, educational activities and academic programs of the constituent institutions" of the University of North Carolina; and
Whereas, pursuant to the request of the General Assembly, the Board of Governors has studied extensively the need for and most effective and economical means of training additional veterinarians for North Carolina; has found that there is a present need to create a school of veterinary medicine in North Carolina; has established a school of veterinary medicine at North Carolina State University, conditional on the appropriation by the General Assembly of sufficient funds to initiate that school; and has filed with the General Assembly on the first day of its current session the report requested by the General Assembly in 1974; and
Whereas, the recommendations of the Governor and Advisory Budget Commission for appropriations for 1975-77 do not make provision for financing a school of veterinary medicine; and
Whereas, it is the conviction of the General Assembly that the State of North Carolina needs a school of veterinary medicine and needs it at the earliest feasible date; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina from the General Fund the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the fiscal year 1976-77 for the purpose of planning and developing a school of veterinary medicine at North Carolina State University at Raleigh and such related activity at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University as the Board of Governors may deem appropriate and complementary to the school of veterinary medicine.
Sec. 2.  It is the sense of the General Assembly that the funds appropriated by the General Assembly of North Carolina shall be used for no purpose other than the planning, and developing of a school of veterinary medicine at North Carolina State University at Raleigh and such related activity at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University as the Board of Governors may deem appropriate and complementary to the school of veterinary medicine.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.