NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 214

HOUSE BILL 402

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF PITT COUNTY TO APPROPRIATE AND MAKE AVAILABLE TO EAST CAROLINA COLLEGE THE SUM OF TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($10,000.00)           TO ASSIST IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW JAMES S. FICKLEN STADIUM.

 

WHEREAS, East Carolina College is a State-supported institution located at Greenville, in Pitt County, North Carolina, and serves all the people of the State of North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, East Carolina College because of its location in Pitt County renders many special services and makes the college facilities available to various clubs, art societies, civic, religious and charitable organizations; East Carolina College also makes its stadium available for public school use, the Greenville High School football team having used the college stadium for all of its home games for many years; Greenville High School is enabled to have an outstanding swimming team because of the availability of the college facilities; the Pitt County High School basketball tournament is held in the gymnasium of East Carolina College each year; and

WHEREAS, all of these facilities are made available to the public and to the citizens of Greenville and Pitt County at a very nominal charge to contribute to actual expenses; it is further contemplated that the new Ficklen Stadium will be used by the athletic teams of Greenville High School and the public schools of Pitt County for athletic, educational and cultural events, and it is further contemplated that many college activities, as well as community activities will be held in the new stadium and will greatly benefit the people of Pitt County and the various organizations with which they are affiliated, not only as spectators but to present programs of their own; and

WHEREAS, the new stadium will be used in the capacity and for a public purpose and for educational, recreational, instructional, dramatic and other public events of a cultural, artistic and educational nature: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of Pitt County is hereby authorized to appropriate and make available to East Carolina College the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00)     to be spent on the construction of the new James S. Ficklen Stadium by said college.

Sec. 2. The appropriation authorized by this Act is hereby declared to be for a public purpose and shall be appropriated from any and all available funds of the county whether the same be tax funds, surplus funds or nontax funds of any description or kind. The said funds are appropriated and made available for the purpose of promoting the public interest and the general welfare of the people of Pitt County and as an aid to the public school system.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 12th day of April, 1963.