GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1973 SESSION

RESOLUTION 84 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 283

A JOINT RESOLUTION FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONSTITUTING UNITS OF THE EXISTING STATE PARK SYSTEM AND STATE HISTORIC SITES AS PARTS OF THE STATE NATURE AND HISTORIC PRESERVE.

Whereas, the General Assembly of North Carolina enacted in 1971 Senate Bill 96, an amendment to the Constitution providing for the protection of natural resources; and Whereas, on November 7, 1972, the people overwhelmingly ratified this constitutional amendment; and Whereas, to accomplish its public purposes, the amendment states that "the State and its counties, cities and towns, and other units of local government may acquire by purchase or gift properties or interests in properties which shall, upon their special dedication to and acceptance by resolution adopted by a vote of three-fifths of the members of each house of the General Assembly for those public purposes, constitute part of the 'State Nature and Historic Preserve';" and Whereas, the lands and waters of the existing State Park System and the existing State historic sites are administered by the State for purposes consistent with the aforementioned constitutional amendment; and Whereas, the Council of State has dedicated certain lands and waters to the State Nature and Historic Preserve;

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

Section 1. The General Assembly accepts the lands and waters within the boundaries of presently existing units of the State Park System and hereby declares them as parts of the State Nature and Historic Preserve. Sec. 2. The General Assembly accepts the lands and waters within the present boundaries of the State Historic Site, Alamance County; Governor Charles B. State Historic Site, Wayne County; Bath State Historic Site, Beaufort County; Bentonville Battleground State Historic Site, Johnston County; Brunswick Town State Historic Site, Brunswick County; Governor Richard Caswell State Historic Site, Lenoir County; State Historic Site, Moore County: James Iredell House State Historic Site, Chowan County; C.S.S. Neuse State Historic Site, Lenoir County; President James K. Polk Birthplace State Historic Site, Mecklenburg County; State Historic Site, Washington County; State Historic Site, Montgomery County; Governor Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace State Historic Site. Buncombe County; and hereby declares them as parts of the State Nature and Historic Preserve. Sec. 3. Nothing in this resolution shall be construed as preventing the Department of Natural and Economic Resources and the Department of Art, Culture and History from carrying out normal maintenance or improvement of existing structures or facilities, provided that said maintenance or improvement is appropriate to, and consistent with, the purpose for which the property was obtained, in the areas respectively administered by them. Sec. 4. This resolution shall become effective upon its ratification.

General Assembly of North Carolina 1973 In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of May, 1973.

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