NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1271

HOUSE BILL 215

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO ACQUIRE, CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A STATE ZOO.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State to the North Carolina Zoological Authority the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.00) for the biennium (1969-71), to be used by said Authority for the purpose of aiding said Authority in the establishment of a Zoological Garden in North Carolina, subject to the following conditions:

(a)  Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) of said funds shall be transferred to said Authority within ninety (90) days after said Authority is organized to enable the Board of Directors to use said funds, in combination with other available funds, to begin the selection of a site and the basic plan for said Zoological Garden.

(b)  The balance of said appropriation shall be transferred upon the approval of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission, either as one sum or several sums, upon the condition that a reasonable plan is presented to said Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission, which will indicate public support of a Zoological Garden and the availability of a substantial amount of non-state funds for that purpose.

(c)  It is a condition of this appropriation that the North Carolina Zoological Authority will not seek additional appropriations from the General Fund during future sessions of the General Assembly.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1969.