A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require a new airport be CONSTRUCTED and certified by the proper aviation authorities to allow incoming and outgoing flights within ten nautical miles of the current landing site before the Horace williams Airport may be closed.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Horace Williams Airport, in Orange County, which is owned by The University of North Carolina, shall not be closed until a new airport for service for the same geographical area is built within 10 nautical miles of the airport's current location, is open for service, and is certified by proper aviation authorities to allow incoming and outgoing flights.
SECTION 2.  The University of North Carolina shall not expend any further funds for planning, design, or materials for a hangar at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport to support AHEC medical flights. No appropriation shall be made that provides funds for operations of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Medical Air at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.