NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 1069

HOUSE BILL 1209

AN ACT TO MAKE THE TRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE A COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Tri-County Technical Institute, an institutional member of the North Carolina Community College System, is hereby created a comprehensive community college to be known as Tri-County Community College, which institution shall continue to be subject to the provisions of Chapter 115A of the General Statutes of North Carolina. The State Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of Tri-County Community College shall provide for students enrolling in Tri-County Community College such programs of instruction in occupational and academic education and training as are authorized or required by provisions of Chapter 115A for a community college as therein defined.

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated to the State Board of Education, Department of Community Colleges, from the General Fund, in addition to all other appropriations which may be made by the 1977 General Assembly therefrom, the sum of one hundred twenty-one thousand, one hundred and seven dollars ($121,107) for fiscal year 1978-1979, which appropriation shall be placed in the Operations Budget of the Department of Community Colleges for distribution, together with any other funds which may be made available, to Tri‑County Community College in accordance with provisions of the funding formulas designed and maintained by the State Board of Education pursuant to G.S. 115A-5.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.