CHAPTER 113

(SB 35)

Board of Regents appropriation for Cottonwood Research Station.


         ENTITLED, An Act to  authorize the Board of Regents to construct a replacement manager's dwelling at the Cottonwood Research Station, to dispose of the existing dwelling on this site, and to make an appropriation therefor.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  The Board of Regents may contract to replace the manager's dwelling with an appropriate residential structure with a garage at the Cottonwood Research Station, located near Cottonwood in Haakon County.

     Section  2.  There is hereby appropriated one hundred sixty thousand dollars ($160,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, from other funds to the Board of Regents for the purposes of this Act.

     Section  3.  The Board of Regents may accept, transfer, and expend any funds obtained for these purposes from federal sources, gifts, and contributions, or any other source, all of which shall be deemed appropriated to the purposes of this Act.

     Section  4.  The Board of Regents may sell, exchange, demolish, or otherwise dispose of the existing multi-story wood frame dwelling located at the Cottonwood Research Station.

     Section  5.  The design and construction of the replacement dwelling shall be under the general charge and supervision of the Bureau of Administration as provided in chapter 5-14.

     Section  6.  The commissioner of the Bureau of Administration and the executive director of the Board of Regents shall approve vouchers and the state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized by this Act.

     Section  7.  The Board of Regents shall comply with Bureau of Administration procedures for bid letting and acceptance in chapter 5-18. However, if bids submitted from private parties exceed the amount appropriated in this Act, the board may consider purchase of a structure under the South Dakota Housing Development Authority's program for prison inmate-constructed housing.

     Signed March 8, 2005
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