CHAPTER 117

(SB 57)

Straw bale house construction at McCrory Gardens, appropriation.


         ENTITLED, An Act to  authorize the Board of Regents to construct a straw bale house at the McCrory Gardens on the campus of South Dakota State University and to make an appropriation therefor.

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

     Section  1.  The board of 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 straw bale house at the McCrory Gardens on the campus of South Dakota State University in Brookings, in Brookings County, at an estimated cost of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.

     Section  2.  There is hereby appropriated to the Board of Regents the sum of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars ($ 17,500 ), or so much thereof as may be necessary, from private donations and grants received by South Dakota State University 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.  No general fund dollars may be used for the maintenance and repair of the facilities authorized by this Act.

     Signed March 1, 2007
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