NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1023

HOUSE BILL 1402

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE MAJOR EQUIPMENT FOR THE STATE TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING SCHOOL.

 

Whereas, the rapid growth of the North Carolina motor transport industry in the years immediately following World War II created a great demand for employees well trained in the skills necessary for safely driving tractor-trailers and large trucks, vans and similar motor transport vehicles using the public streets and highways; and

Whereas, the State Truck Driver Training School was established in the year 1949 at North Carolina State College, (now North Carolina State University at Raleigh) under cosponsorship of the then North Carolina State College and the North Carolina Motor Carriers Association; and, the said State Truck Driver Training School has for 30 years experienced outstanding success and far famed recognition for the excellence of its six-week's program of concentrated training; and

Whereas, in 1974, as a part of the process of reorganizing public higher education services, negotiations between North Carolina State University and the State Board of Education, Department of Community Colleges, led to an agreement whereby the State Truck Driver Training School was transferred for general administration to the State Board of Education, Department of Community Colleges, by which authority the school is assigned to an institution of the Community College System for particular, local administration of its day‑to‑day operations; and

Whereas, the continued operation and existence of the State Truck Driver Training School urgently requires that the State provide special funding for certain items of essential major equipment; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  In addition to any and all other appropriations made to the State Board of Education, Department of Community Colleges, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State of North Carolina to the State Board of Education, Department of Community Colleges, the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for fiscal year 1979-80 to purchase three tractor-trailers for use in teaching in the State Truck Driver Training School.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.