NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1090

SENATE BILL 645

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 683 AND CHAPTER 684 OF THE 1963 SESSION LAWS TO PROVIDE FOR A PROGRAM OF STATEWIDE EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Amend Section 1 of Chapter 683 of the 1963 Session Laws by adding at the end thereof the following:

"There is hereby appropriated to the University of North Carolina (Consolidated) from the General Fund of the State the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for the first year of the 1963-65 biennium and the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00) for the second year of the 1963-65 biennium to provide for the operation of a State-wide educational television program. This appropriation shall be in addition to all other funds appropriated to the University of North Carolina for the 1963-65 biennium."

Sec. 2.  Amend Section 4 of Chapter 684 of the 1963 Session Laws by adding at the end thereof the following: "There is hereby appropriated to the University of North Carolina (Consolidated) from the General Fund of the State the sum of one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,250,000.00) to provide facilities for State-wide educational television."

Sec. 3.  The Legislative Council is hereby requested and directed to make a study of the programs being offered by the University of North Carolina in its educational television service, with a view of making recommendations for the improvement thereof and the possible adoption of alternate programs or measures to the end that said educational television may better serve the people of the State and to make said recommendations to the General Assembly of 1965.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1 1963.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1963.