GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1995
S	1
SENATE BILL 465

Short Title:	NC Pottery Center Funds.	()	
Sponsors:	Senators Hobbs, Little, Cochrane, McDaniel, Shaw, Plexico, Dannelly, Hoyle, Gulley, Martin of Guilford, Warren, Odom, Kincaid, and Davis.	
Referred to:	Appropriations	
March 23, 1995

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for a north carolina pottery center to enhance economic development in rural north carolina through education and the promotion of tourism relating to and derived from the pottery industry.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year to assist in the construction of the North Carolina Pottery Center, provided that these funds are matched on the basis of one dollar ($1.00) of non-State funds for every one dollar ($1.00) of State funds. The North Carolina Pottery Center will be built on a site already acquired with private funds in the village of Seagrove, which is the largest and oldest European-based pottery community in the United States. The purpose of the North Carolina Pottery Center will be to stimulate economic development in the area by promoting tourism and to interpret the history and technology of pottery making in North Carolina through permanent and temporary exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations, and classes; conferences, workshops, and publications; and outreach programs including providing tours of exhibitions and making presentations to schools.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.