NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1098

HOUSE BILL 990

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET TO MAKE TRANSFERS FROM PRISON DEPARTMENT PROJECTS FOR WHICH CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATIONS WERE MADE IN 1963 AND FROM RECEIPTS FROM THE SALE OF PRISON LAND TO PERMIT CONSTRUCTION OF A 250-MAN PRISON TO REPLACE THE BURKE COUNTY UNIT AND A 250-MAN PRISON TO REPLACE CRAGGY PRISON.

 

WHEREAS, Craggy Prison was constructed more than forty years ago as a county prison and is so designed and so located that long range economies, operational efficiency, and adequate provisions for future development made more feasible construction of a new 250-man unit to replace Craggy Prison; and

WHEREAS, decreases in the need for inmates on road work have made unnecessary expansion of the Greene County Prison Unit and enabled the Prison Department to make use of the Halifax County Unit for inmates working at Caledonia Prison eliminating the need for an additional 100-man dormitory there; and

WHEREAS, substituting a well for a water line effected considerable savings from a project at the Durham County Prison Unit; and

WHEREAS, reduction in costs have been effected through elimination of unnecessary projects and economies in construction of others, and have resulted in there being available unallocated Capital Improvement funds available for necessary Prison Department projects; and

WHEREAS, there is great need for construction of other projects not heretofore authorized, and for which funds can be made available through transfer of funds from existing appropriations to new appropriations for capital improvements: Now, therefore

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The Director of the Budget is hereby authorized to transfer forty-seven thousand dollars ($47,000.00) from funds appropriated in 1963 for the construction of a water line at Unit 051, Durham County, eighty-eight thousand dollars ($88,000.00) appropriated in 1963 for construction of a 100-man dormitory at Caledonia Prison, nine hundred five thousand dollars ($905,000.00) appropriated in 1963 for renovation and enlargement of Unit 024, Greene County, one hundred sixty-six thousand dollars ($166,000.00) appropriated in 1963 for renovation and enlargement of Unit 132, Burke County, two hundred seventy-six thousand dollars ($276,000.00) appropriated in 1963 for renovation of Craggy Prison, and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) received from the sale of prison land to a separate Capital Improvement account, five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) of which may be used for construction of such new prison unit, or for the renovation and repair of such existing prison unit as may be deemed necessary in the discretion of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission, and the balance of said account shall revert and be paid into the General Fund of the State.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be effective from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1965.