CHAPTER 116

(SB 56)

Seed technology facility appropriation.


         ENTITLED, An Act to  authorize the Board of Regents to acquire a seed technology facility for South Dakota State University, 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, removal of existing roofing and structures, and such other services and improvements as may be required to erect, a seed technology facility to support research, extension, education, and public service activities on the campus of South Dakota State University in Brookings, in Brookings County, at an estimated cost of six million five hundred thousand dollars.

     Section  2.  There is hereby appropriated from private donations and grants received by South Dakota State University , the sum of six million five hundred thousand dollars ($ 6,500,000 ), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Board of Regents for the purpose of constructing 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.  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.

     Signed March 1, 2007
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