NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1271

HOUSE BILL 1597

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, INC.

 

Whereas, the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation providing live theatre performances to citizens of this State; and

Whereas, the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Inc., has, in three years, grown from a small summer theatre into a large regional theatre company producing a range of theatrical materials over a seven month season with performances in High Point, Greensboro, and Charlotte; and

Whereas, the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Inc., is the only professional theatre company in this State which provides summer classical theatre, produces both a summer and fall season of quality theatre, and presents a full season in more than one community within the State; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for fiscal year 1980-81 to help support the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Inc.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1980.