NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 688
SENATE BILL 415

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 115 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO THE POWERS OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO RECEIVE AND ADMINISTER GIFTS, GRANTS AND DONATIONS FOR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL PROJECTS AND TO EMPOWER THE SAID BOARD TO USE RELEVANT DATA FOR TEACHER ALLOTMENT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Subsection (12) of G.S. 115-11 (1960 Replacement Volume 3A) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
"The Board is further authorized, in its discretion, to allot teaching personnel to county and city administrative units for experimental programs and purposes."
Sec. 2.  Section 115-11 of the General Statutes is amended by adding two new subsections to be designated as subsection (15) and subsection (16) and to read as follows:
"(15)	Acceptance of Gifts and Grants. The Board is authorized to accept, receive, use, or reallocate to local school units any gifts, donations, grants, bequests, or other forms of voluntary contributions.
"(16)	Power to Provide for Programs or Projects in the Cultural and Fine Arts Areas. The Board is authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to make provision for special programs or projects of a cultural and fine arts nature for the enrichment and strengthening of educational opportunities for the children of the State.
	"For this purpose, the Board may use funds received from gifts or grants and, with the approval of the Director of the Budget, may use State funds which the Board may find available in any budget administered by the Board."
Sec. 3.  Section 115-59 of the General Statutes is amended by inserting immediately after the word "year" and immediately before the word "shall" in the twelfth line of said Section, the following words and punctuation: ", together with other pertinent attendance data,".
Sec. 4.  Section 115-299 of the General Statutes is amended by deleting from the last sentence the following: "to exceed three hundred dollars ($300.00) per fiscal year," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "less than three hundred sixty dollars ($360.00) per fiscal year,".
Sec. 5.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of June, 1963.