NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1079

HOUSE BILL 641

AN ACT TO ENHANCE THE HIGHWAY HISTORICAL MARKER PROGRAM.

Whereas, highway historical markers are an important means of conveying historical information to the citizens of North Carolina as well as to travelers on the highways of the State;

Whereas, the annual appropriation for the erection of highway historical markers has remained constant for 30 years while the cost of individual markers has increased sixfold; and

Whereas, the present appropriation is insufficient to provide maintenance to those markers already approved let alone mark new points of historic interest as was originally intended by the General Assembly; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for fiscal year 1981-82 for the purpose of designing and fabricating North Carolina highway historical markers and for maintaining and replacing as necessary those highway historical markers which have previously been erected. These funds are to be disbursed annually following the depletion of funds expended by the Department of Transportation pursuant to G.S. 136-42.3.

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.