NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION
CHAPTER 1086
HOUSE BILL 1251
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE.
Whereas, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, located in Durham, North Carolina, has, over the past 30 years, provided millions of the residents of this State with a Museum of Life and Science; and
Whereas, the museum has permanent displays of our environment, space exploration and historical data dealing with our total background; and
Whereas, the museum had 400,000 visitors representing people from 40 or more counties in the State; and
Whereas, the City and County of Durham did in 1975 furnish one hundred ten thousand dollars ($110,000) in operating costs; and
Whereas, the museum now owns 28 acres of land, has many buildings and exhibits and now needs additional funds for capital improvements and for expansion; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated for the 1977-79 biennium from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources for the continuation of capital improvements and operating funds the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the use and benefit of the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, to be paid at the rate of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per year for each year of the biennium.
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective on July 1, 1977.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.