CHAPTER 96

(SB 23)

Livestock feed storage construction authorized.


         ENTITLED, An Act to  authorize the Board of Regents to construct a livestock feed storage room as an addition to the livestock feed facility at the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Southeast Research Farm 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 for the construction, completion, furnishing, equipping, and maintaining of, including heating, air conditioning, plumbing, water, sewer, electric facilities, architectural and engineering services, asbestos abatement, and such other services as may be required to construct, a livestock feed storage room as an addition to the livestock feed facility at the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Southeast Research Farm, in Union County, at an estimated cost of seventeen thousand dollars.


     Section  2.  There is hereby appropriated to the Board of Regents seventeen thousand dollars ($ 17,000 ), or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station activity funds to construct the facility described in section 1 of this Act.

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

     Section  4.  The design and construction of the facilities approved by this Act shall be under the general supervision of the Bureau of Administration as provided in §  5-14-2. 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  5.  Notwithstanding the provisions of §  13-51-2, no money from the state general fund, student tuition fees, nor the educational facilities fund may be used to finance the maintenance and repair of the facilities specified in this Act.

     Signed February 21, 2006
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