2006 Session Laws Chapter 97

ENTITLED, An Act to authorize the Board of Regents to construct an advanced materials processing and joining laboratory foundry addition to the Metallurgy Foundry Building at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

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, an advanced materials processing and joining laboratory foundry addition to the Metallurgy Foundry Building at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, in Pennington County, at an estimated cost of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars.

Section 2. There is hereby appropriated to the Board of Regents one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($ 125,000 ) from the federal monies allocated by the Department of Defense Army Research Laboratory to support advanced research conducted at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to construct the addition 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 facility 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. No general fund dollars may be used for the maintenance and repair of the facility authorized by this Act.

Section 6. Whereas, this Act is necessary for the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.