A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the honorary liston b. ramsey mounted horse/caisson patrol unit.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, State Highway Patrol Division, the sum of sixty‑three thousand dollars ($63,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year to establish the Honorary Liston B. Ramsey Mounted Horse/Caisson Patrol Unit as part of the State Highway Patrol.  The Unit shall function as a horse‑drawn caisson procession at the funeral services of certain State officials, law enforcement personnel, firefighters, and rescue workers.
The Unit shall consist of a caisson wagon, two horses to pull the wagon, and a horse to follow the wagon.  The horses will be donated, and the funds appropriated in this act shall be used to acquire the wagon and for training and care of the horses.  The Unit offices, stables, equipment storage, and training facilities shall be located at Bearwallow Ridge Farms, 434 School Road, in Marshall, North Carolina, on property donated by the family of the late Speaker of the House of Representatives, Liston B. Ramsey.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2002.