NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION
CHAPTER 1251
SENATE BILL 980
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AS A GRANT-IN-AID TO THE SOUTHWESTERN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION FOR THE RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAIN CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER.
Whereas, at present, there is no firearms training facility in Western North Carolina; and
Whereas, law enforcement agencies which can afford to, send their officers to the Salemburg Justice Academy in Sampson County for this training; and
Whereas, Southwestern Technical Institute Foundation, a tax-exempt, non-profit organization, has begun construction of the Rattlesnake Mountain Career Training Development Center which will include a firearms training facility and a dormitory facility to house law enforcement personnel while staying at the center; and
Whereas, the completed firearms training facility will be completely under the control of Southwestern Technical Institute; and
Whereas, the facility will have the capacity to serve the needs of approximately 600 law enforcement officers from Western North Carolina counties; and
Whereas, the operation of a firearms training facility in Western North Carolina would reduce transportation expenses, decrease the number of work days lost because of travel time, and increase the number of officers who can obtain firearms training; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) is appropriated from the General Fund to the Southwestern Technical Institute Foundation for the 1978-79 fiscal year for the completion of the dormitory facility at the Rattlesnake Mountain Career Development Center in Swain County. This sum shall be dispensed to the Southwestern Technical Institute Foundation only after the foundation has furnished proof acceptable to the State Budget Office that sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) has been raised from non-State sources for the completion of the Rattlesnake Mountain Career Development Center.
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective on July 1, 1978.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1978.