(SB 56)
Seed technology facility appropriation.
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.