NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION
CHAPTER 914
HOUSE BILL 12
AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT OPERATIONS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AGENCIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The appropriations made herein are intended to be for maximum amounts necessary to provide the services and accomplish the purposes described in The Budget. It is the intent of the General Assembly that savings shall be effected where the total amounts appropriated shall not be required to perform these services and accomplish these purposes, and that such savings shall be reverted to the appropriate fund at the end of the biennium.
GENERAL FUND
Sec. 2. Appropriations from the General Fund of the State for the maintenance of the State departments, institutions, and agencies, and for other purposes as enumerated are hereby made for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1966, and June 30, 1967, respectively, according to the following schedule:
I. GENERAL GOVERNMENT
1965-66 1966-67
The General Assembly $ — $1,277,510
Legislative Council 25,000 25,000
Supreme Court 406,214 405,829
Superior Courts 1,440,350 1,440,350
Judicial Council 4,195 4,195
Counsel for Indigent Defendants 442,332 475,382
The Governor's Office $ 188,886 $ 191,166
The Lieutenant Governor 12,655 11,619
Department of Administration 2,692,433 2,830,908
State Personnel Department 428,091 445,663
Secretary of State 121,313 124,729
State Auditor 386,195 398,832
State Treasurer:
1. State Treasurer 189,222 192,876
2. Local Government Commission 98,023 100,923
Department of Justice:
1. Attorney General 210,984 214,190
2. State Bureau of Investigation 498,807 502,420
3. General Statutes Commission 11,327 11,396
Department of Revenue 5,764,398 5,962,674
Department of Tax Research 88,423 94,980
North Carolina Tax Review Board 5,615 5,819
State Board of Elections 26,230 27,170
North Carolina Courts Commission 40,000 40,000
Contingency and Emergency:
1. To provide for contingency and emergency expenditures for any purpose authorized by law for which no specific appropriation is made hereunder, or for which inadvertently an insufficient appropriation has been made under this Section. Allotments are to be made from this appropriation under the provisions of G.S. 143-12, or such other statute as may be
applicable 1,750,000 1,750,000
Salary Adjustments of State Employees
Subject to Personnel Act 500,000 500,000
Reserve for Implementation of 40-hour
Workweek for State General Fund Employees
subject to the Personnel Act 735,000` 795,231
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Subtotal-General Government $ 16,065,693 $ 17,828,862
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II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION
The Adjutant General:
1. Adjutant General's Office $ 553,517 $ 554,895
2. Armory Commission 50,500 36,000
State Civil Air Patrol 17,869 17,920
State Civil Defense Agency 134,646 138,554
Department of Motor Vehicles:
1. Automobile Drivers' Financial
Responsibility Program 320,286 329,000
Utilities Commission $ 389,888 $ 395,849
Insurance Department:
1. Insurance Department 576,583 596,704
2. State Property Fire Insurance Fund 250,000 250,000
3. Firemen's Relief Fund 1,750 1,750
4. Building Code Council 3,808 3,808
Department of Labor 670,692 676,963
Industrial Commission 363,855 366,735
State Board of Alcoholic Control 625,475 632,262
Department of Agriculture:
1. Gasoline and Oil Inspection Service 113,233 114,922
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Subtotal — Public Safety and Regulation $ 4,072,102 $ 4,115,362
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III. CORRECTION
North Carolina Board of Juvenile Correction:
1. General Administration $ 86,793 $ 90,166
2. Stonewall Jackson Training School 514,002 554,712
3. State Home and Industrial School
for Girls—Samarcand Manor 485,608 498,407
4. Morrison Training School 622,909 592,295
5. Eastern Carolina Training School 317,713 343,604
6. State Training School for Girls—
Dobbs Farm 309,670 315,478
7. Leonard Training School 438,904 451,992
8. Juvenile Evaluation and Treatment
Center 504,084 746,584
9. New Training Facilities—Operations — 117,596
Fugitives From Justice 6,500 6,500
Prison Department 11,994,464 12,353,081
Probation Commission 1,338,120 1,444,548
Board of Paroles 717,276 733,489
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Subtotal— Correction $ 17,336,043 $ 18,248,452
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IV. PUBLIC WELFARE
Department of Public Welfare $ 15,431,746 $ 16,126,952
State Commission for the Blind 1,455,196 1,490,081
Veterans Commission:
1. Veterans Commission 402,733 413,993
2. County Service Officers 94,000 94,000
Confederate Women's Home 63,072 63,770
Oxford Orphanage 62,250 62,250
Junior Order Children's Home 55,000 55,000
Oxford Colored Orphanage $ 86,000 $ 86,000
Odd Fellows Home 11,000 11,000
Pythian Home 11,000 11,000
Alexander Schools, Inc. 40,000 40,000
Eliada Homes, Inc. 15,000 15,000
Boys Home of North Carolina, Inc. 10,000 10,000
Sipe's Orchard Home, Inc. 10,750 10,750
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Subtotal— Public Welfare $ 17,747,747 $ 18,489,796
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V. EDUCATION
Department of Public Instruction:
1. Administration and Supervision $ 995,393 $1,009,361
State Board of Education:
1. Nine Months School Fund 270,198,256 285,480,291
2. State Board of Education 644,791 647,813
3. Vocational Education 7,890,938 8,704,853
4. Purchase of Free Textbooks 6,386,350 6,055,417
5. Vocational Textile School 108,074 107,463
6. Purchase of School Buses 2,577,800 2,577,800
7. Division of School Planning 185,224 189,551
8. Vocational Rehabilitation 1,334,741 1,363,442
9. Department of Community Colleges—
Equipment 5,845,013 1,828,861
10. Instruction and Training for Trainable
Mentally Handicapped Children 886,009 962,486
11. National Defense Education Program 217,527 225,884
12. Department of Community Colleges 9,216,842 11,297,241
13. Program of Education by Television 113,264 113,264
14. Professional Improvement of Teachers 148,511 149,585
State Board of Higher Education 120,631 121,849
University of North Carolina (Consolidated):
1. General Administration 990,732 998,200
2. Long Range Planning Program 38,993 39,405
3. University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
a. University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill 11,706,849 12,988,731
b. Division of Health Affairs 4,414,883 4,710,473
4. North Carolina State University 10,175,294 10,988,153
5. University of North Carolina at
Greensboro 3,700,178 3,833,815
6. University of North Carolina at
Charlotte 1,487,356 1,711,976
East Carolina College 4,695,519 5,088,674
The Agricultural and Technical College 2,315,466 2,524,921
Western Carolina College $ 1,796,653 $ 2,058,575
Appalachian State Teachers College 2,378,065 2,664,638
Pembroke State College 818,633 852,992
Winston-Salem State College 969,202 1,019,139
Elizabeth City State College 790,583 836,760
Fayetteville State College 829,553 843,932
North Carolina College at Durham 2,122,402 2,289,350
Asheville-Biltmore College 711,568 752,900
Wilmington College 766,236 791,630
North Carolina Board of Science and
Technology 317,468 318,260
North Carolina School for the Deaf 1,100,487 1,138,281
Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf 317,462 352,292
The Governor Morehead School 1,209,823 1,262,910
Student Loan Funds:
1. Medical Care Commission—Medical
Education 130,000
2. State Board of Education—Teacher Ed. 695,000 695,000
Department of Archives and History 775,489 721,275
Tryon Palace—Department of Archives and
History 81,850 85,942
State Library:
1. Library 188,222 191,337
2. State Aid to Public Libraries 685,113 737,111
North Carolina Museum of Art 245,905 249,705
North Carolina State Art Society 7,000 7,000
North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc. 75,000 75,000
North Carolina School of the Arts 469,675 476,320
Old Salem, Inc. 50,000 50,000
Highlands Biological Station, Inc. 15,150 15,150
Moore's Creek Battleground Association 500 500
Department of Administration:
1. Reserve for Higher Education — To
Replace contributions by Auxiliary
Services to Academic Expense 195,871 195,871
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Subtotal—Education $364,007,544 $382,531,379
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VII. NON-HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION
State Ports Authority $ 209,395 $ 209,395
VIII. HEALTH AND HOSPITALS
State Board of Health $ 4,521,431 $ 4,669,297
Medical Care Commission:
1. Medical Care Commission—
Administration 156,501 160,121
University of North Carolina: $ $
1. Memorial Hospital—Psychiatric
Center 732,144 746,037
2. Memorial Hospital 2,697,992 2,806,725
Department of Mental Health:
1. General Administration 1,539,471 1,547,033
2. Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program 123,547 125,941
3. Dorothea Dix Hospital 5,113,578 5,227,616
4. Broughton Hospital 5,170,908 5,254,027
5. Western Carolina Center 1,603,824 1,644,648
6. Cherry Hospital 5,088,427 5,188,562
7. O'Berry Center 2,326,854 2,493,145
8. John Umstead Hospital 4,168,471 4,255,271
9. Murdoch Center 3,618,742 3,962,236
10. Caswell Center 3,429,354 3,517,713
11. Wright School 72,807 —
12. Advisory Council on Mental
Retardation 20,804 21,608
North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital 607,874 617,630
North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital 246,609 250,654
North Carolina Sanatorium System:
1. General Administration 44,963 45,323
2. North Carolina Sanatorium 1,392,426 1,417,931
3. Western North Carolina Sanatorium 1,267,805 1,288,993
4. Eastern North Carolina Sanatorium 1,619,575 1,658,535
5. Gravely Sanatorium 584,132 589,162
Asheville Orthopedic Hospital 85,000 90,000
North Carolina Cancer Institute, Inc. 26,000 26,000
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Subtotal— Health and Hospitals $ 46,259,239 $ 47,604,208
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IX. NATURAL RESOURCES AND RECREATION
Department of Conservation and Development:
1. Department of Conservation and
Development $ 3,889,716 $ 3,862,171
2. Division of Commercial Fisheries 255,028 342,334
3. Division of Commercial Fisheries—
Shellfish Division 133,114 133,916
4. Kerr Reservoir Development Commission—
Nutbush Conservation Area 41,961 42,605
Department of Water Resources 613,032 621,103
North Carolina National Park, Parkway and
Forest Development Commission 9,232 9,496
Industrial Extension Service—North Carolina
State University 116,353 120,779
Rural Electrification Authority 70,126 71,769
North Carolina Recreation Commission $ 106,619 $ 108,104
Confederate Museum-Richmond, Virginia 200 200
Confederate Cemetery-Raleigh, North
Carolina 350 350
Garden Clubs of North Carolina, Inc.—The
Elizabethan Garden 5,500 5,500
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Subtotal — Natural Resources and
Recreation $ 5,241,231 $ 5,318,327
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X. AGRICULTURE
Department of Agriculture:
1. Contribution from General Fund $ 2,720,938 $ 2,751,528
2. State Meat and Poultry Inspection 565,005 613,528
Agricultural Experiment Station-North
Carolina State University 3,144,866 3,259,273
Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service-
North Carolina State University 3,605,594 3,740,052
State Soil and Water Conservation
Committee 168,383 170,188
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Subtotal—Agriculture $ 10,204,786 $ 10,534,569
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XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS
Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement
System:
1. Administration $ 316,077 $ 323,463
2. State Contributions 40,966,049 45,235,991
3. Teachers and State Employees Who
Had Attained Age 65 at August 1, 1959 190,000 181,600
Law Enforcement Officers' Benefit and
Retirement Fund-Contributions from
General Fund 57,986 54,318
North Carolina Firemen's Pension Fund 486,379 483,158
Pensions-Confederate Widows 63,342 58,092
Pensions-Widows of Governors 12,000 12,000
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Subtotal—Retirement and Pensions $ 42,091,833 $ 46,348,622
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XIII. DEBT SERVICE
Interest on Bonds $ 3,713,870 $ 6,102,595
Redemption of Bonds 8,165,000 11,070,000
Landscrip Fund 7,500 7,500
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Subtotal—Debt Service $ 11,886,370 $ 17,180,095
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XIV. SALARY INCREASES
State Employees Subject to Personnel Act $ 8,905,177 $ 9,012,306
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TOTAL— GENERAL FUND $544,027,160 $577,421,373
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HIGHWAY FUND
Sec. 3. Appropriations from the Highway Fund of the State for the expense of collecting revenues, for the service of the highway debt, and for the maintenance of the highway activities, are hereby made for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1966, and June 30, 1967, respectively, according to the following schedule:
II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION
Department of Motor Vehicles $ 12,973,381 $ 13,117,106
Transportation Inspection (Utilities
Commission) 178,717 177,925
Gasoline Inspection Service (Department of
Agriculture) 339,995 345,030
Subtotal— Public Safety and Regulation $ 13,492,093 $ 13,640,061
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V. EDUCATION
Driver Training and Safety Education $ 2,191,099 $ 2,054,174
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VI. HIGHWAYS
State Highway Commission:
1. Merit Salary Increments $ 1,568,493 $ 2,581,429
2. Reserve for Contingencies 500,000 500,000
3. General Administration 2,266,755 2,276,847
4. Engineering Administration and
Supervision 5,569,320 5,496,423
5. State Maintenance and Construction:
a. Primary System 27,650,000 29,989,000
b. Secondary System 58,130,901 62,144,826
c. Urban System 5,275,000 6,575,000
d. Public Service Roads 1,300,000 1,300,000
6. State Funds to Match Federal Aid
Highway Planning Survey and
Highway Planning Research 518,500 527,710
7. State Funds to Match Federal Aid
Construction 26,356,500 26,782,290
8. State Aid to Municipalities 9,191,700 9,558,400
9. Salary Adjustments of State
Employees Subject to Personnel Act 250,000 250,000
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Subtotal— Highways $138,577,169 $147,981,925
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XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS
Contribution to Retirement System-Salary
Increases $ 537,734 $ 538,931
Contribution to Retirement System 5,008,160 5,218,103
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Subtotal— Retirement and Pensions $ 5,545,894 $ 5,757,034
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XIII. DEBT SERVICE
Interest on and Redemption of Highway
Bonds $ 12,356,875 $ 12,381,875
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XIV. SALARY INCREASES
Salary Increases for Highway Fund
Employees $ 5,572,992 $ 5,579,864
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TOTAL— HIGHWAY FUND $177,736,122 $187,394,933
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(Transfers and Changes may be made in the Highway Fund from Merit Salary Increments, Salary Increases, Contribution to Retirement System — Salary Increases, Salary Adjustments, and Reserve for Contingencies to other operating appropriations in the Highway Fund by authorization of the Director of the Budget. Transfers and Changes may be made to and /or from Title VI-3, 4, 5(a), (b), (c), (d), 6, and 7 by authorization of the Director of the Budget: PROVIDED, Title VI-5(a), (b), (c), (d), 6 or 7 shall not be reduced by more than ten per cent (10%).
In the event that the revenues accruing to the Highway Fund exclusive of one cent (l¢) gasoline tax for Debt Service, exceed the amount of one hundred sixty-three million, three hundred seventy-eight thousand dollars ($163,378,000) for the fiscal year 1965-66 and the amount of one hundred seventy million, nine hundred sixteen thousand dollars ($170,916,000) for the fiscal year 1966-67 such excesses may be allocated in the next succeeding year by the Director of the Budget, to increase the appropriations under Title VI-3, 4, 5(a), (b), (c), (d), 6, and 7. Increases in Highway Fund surplus from sources other than revenues may be allocated in the next succeeding year by the Director of the Budget, to increase the appropriations under Titles VI-3, 4, 5(a), (b), (c), (d), 6 and 7.
AGRICULTURE FUND
Sec. 4. Appropriations from the Agriculture Fund of the State for maintenance of agricultural activities are hereby made for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1966, and June 30, 1967, respectively, according to the following schedule:
1965-66 1966-67
1. Department of Agriculture $ 1,520,150 $ 1,520,150
2. State Fair (The State Fair may be
operated within its own receipts in the
discretion of the State Board of
Agriculture.)
WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION
Sec. 5. Notwithstanding any laws or clauses of laws pertaining to the Wildlife Resources Commission, there is hereby appropriated out of funds available to the Wildlife Resources Commission the following sums for the biennium 1965-67, subject to expenditure under the provisions of the Executive Budget Act, Chapter 143, Article I, General Statutes of North Carolina.
Wildlife Resources Commission $ 3,835,422 $ 3,523,522
Wildlife Resources Commission—Motorboat
Section 175,101 176,927
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TOTAL $ 4,010,523 $ 3,700,449
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Sec. 6. There is hereby appropriated out of funds available in the various special funds sufficient amounts to carry on required activities included under each fund's operations subject to provisions of the Executive Budget Act, Chapter 143, Article I, General Statutes of North Carolina.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 7. All insurance and all official, fidelity, and surety bonds authorized for the several departments, institutions, and agencies shall be effected and placed by the Insurance Department, and the cost of such placement shall be paid by the department, institution, or agency involved upon bills rendered to and approved by the Insurance Commissioner.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 8. The appropriation made out of the General Fund for the Prison Department includes funds to be transferred or paid to the Dorothea Dix Hospital at Raleigh and Cherry Hospital at Goldsboro for care, custody, and treatment of the criminally insane prisoners, and to the North Carolina Sanatorium for care, custody, and treatment of prisoners who have tuberculosis; with the amount of funds to be determined as follows: At the beginning of each month the Dorothea Dix Hospital at Raleigh, the Cherry Hospital at Goldsboro, and North Carolina Sanatorium shall render to the Prison Department a bill, on the basis of the per capita cost per day for the preceding fiscal year, as may be determined by the Director of the Budget, for the care, custody, and treatment, during the preceding month, of criminally insane prisoners and prisoners who have tuberculosis and who have been transferred from the Prison System to said institutions, and the Prison Department shall pay such bills monthly.
Sec. 9. Appropriations made herein to the Department of Public Welfare and to the Commission for the Blind, for hospitalization of the medically indigent, are limited to payment of per diem reimbursable costs up to twenty-two dollars ($22.00), provided that no depreciation on buildings may be included in computing hospital costs, and further provided that foundation funds, received by such hospitals for indigent care must be deducted from hospital reimbursable costs rates.
Appropriations made herein to the Department of Public Welfare for Medical Services to the Indigent are limited to payment for services which are being provided at the date of passage of this Act.
Sec. 10. Appropriations made to the North Carolina School for the Deaf, to the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, and to the Governor Morehead School under Section 2 of this Act include provisions for the cost of clothing and transportation for indigent pupils. The institutions shall be reimbursed for these items by the counties liable therefor under the provisions of G.S. 116-118.
Sec. 11. Funds appropriated herein to the State Board of Education to provide additional teachers for specified grades and/or purposes shall be used for those purposes, and may not be diverted to any other use.
Sec. 12. The experimental and research projects designated "The Comprehensive School Improvement Project", "The Advancement School", and "The Governor's School", for which appropriations are herein made to the State Board of Education, are to be operated and maintained by the said Board under the terms of the Executive Budget Act, for the fiscal year July 1, 1965 to June 30, 1966. If, after the end of the above fiscal year, it is the opinion of the Governor and Advisory Budget Commission that such experimental projects, or any of them, shall continue, the funds appropriated for the fiscal year July 1, 1966 to June 30, 1967 for such project or projects shall be utilized therefor. If the Governor and Advisory Budget Commission do not recommend continuance of such project, or any of them, for the said second year, funds appropriated for such of them as are not so recommended shall revert to the General Fund.
Sec. 13. Allotments of the appropriations made herein to the Department of Archives and History, as grants-in-aid for the Confederate Troop Roster, and for the Colonial Records of North Carolina, are conditioned upon matching funds from non-appropriated sources being made available for use at the time such allotments are made.
Sec. 14. The appropriation made herein for twenty-two thousand dollars ($22,000) for additional personnel for the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee, (Code 28081) is conditioned upon the Federal support for this program being continued at the level effective at the time of passage of this Act, and if the level of Federal support is reduced, the Advisory Budget Commission is authorized and empowered to review the requirements for such additional personnel, and to reduce the number of new employees as may be deemed advisable.
Sec. 15. From the funds appropriated to the State institutions of higher education in Section 2 of this Act and institutional receipts accruing to said institutions, the respective State institutions of higher education are hereby directed to pay the student help employed to perform work in said institutions a rate of pay which shall not be less in any case than seventy-five cents (75¢) per hour of work performed.
Sec. 16. Appropriations made to the Oxford Colored Orphanage under Section 2 of this Act shall be available only if and when the expenditures shall be recommended by the trustees of the institution appointed by the Governor of the State, and the expenditures shall be under the supervision of said trustees.
Sec. 17. The Director of the Budget shall require that the Highway Fund, the Agriculture Fund, other special funds employing personnel, and other operations employing personnel and which are designated by the resolution of the Governor and Advisory Budget Commission as self-supporting operations shall budget as a line item object of expenditure sufficient funds to pay their employer proportion of contributions to the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System as required by the Act creating said system.
No part of the appropriation made in Section 2 of this Act to the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System as "contributions" under Title XII-2 shall be used to supply the State's or employer's contribution for retirement system purposes or social security purposes with respect to the compensation of any State employee (1) whose compensation is paid out of receipts of any State institution or agency (other than gifts, including foundation funds), which receipts are deposited in institutional funds for the specific purpose of paying the compensation of such employee, or (2) who performs his duties for an operation or activity designated by the Director of the Budget as a self-supporting operation or activity, or (3) who performs his duties for an operation or activity not directly supported by an appropriation from the State General Fund. In those instances in which an employee's salary is paid in part from the General Fund or from gifts (including foundations) and in part from receipts of the State institution or agency (other than gifts, including foundation funds), which receipts are deposited in institutional funds for the specific purpose of paying part of the compensation of such State employee, the appropriation described above shall be used to pay a portion of the employer's contribution for retirement and social security equal to that proportion of the employee's total salary paid from the General Fund or from gifts (including foundations), and the remainder of the employer's contribution shall be paid from the same sources as supply the remainder of such employee's salary. It is the intent and purpose of this Act that, when retirement system or social security matching funds are required to be made on behalf of the State as an employer in the situations described above in this paragraph, such matching funds to the extent necessary shall be paid out of the funds of the institution or operation or activity described above in this paragraph. Any question as to the applicability of this paragraph shall be resolved by the Director of the Budget and the Advisory Budget Commission.
Sec. 18. Subject to rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Administration and approved by the Director of the Budget any State department, institution, or agency of the State is hereby authorized to expend, from appropriations made in this Act, funds to pay the expenses of transporting the household goods and furniture of an employee and members of his household when such an employee is directed by the employing agency to transfer from one location to another.
Sec. 19. The Department of Administration is directed to make a study of the telephone services to the various agencies of the State, and to take such action as may be necessary to provide effective telephone service at the most economical cost. To achieve this purpose, the Department is authorized to redirect budgeted funds for telephone service for the State's agencies, within the amounts herein appropriated, transferring appropriations for telephone service into consolidated telephone budget amounts as may be required.
Sec. 20. Subject to a recommendation of the Advisory Budget Commission, funds not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for each year of the biennium 1965-67 may be allotted out of the Contingency and Emergency Appropriation for use by the State Department of Agriculture, North Carolina Experiment Station, and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, for a witch weed control program; and, subject to a recommendation by the Advisory Budget Commission, funds not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) each year may be allotted out of the Contingency and Emergency Fund for use by the State Department of Agriculture for payment of hog cholera indemnities.
SALARIES AND WAGES
Sec. 21. The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to transfer from the appropriations for salary increases of State employees subject to the Personnel Act, such sums as may be required to increase salaries in effect on June 30, 1965, under the salary schedule established by the State Personnel Council.
The appropriations for salary increases of State employees who are subject to the State Personnel Act shall be transferred by the Director of the Budget to departments, institutions and agencies in such amounts as may be required to increase salaries, commencing July 1, 1965, for all full-time, permanent employees in accordance with the following provisions: For granting a ten per cent (10%) Legislative salary increase to each permanent full-time employee who is subject to the provisions of the State Personnel Act. This ten per cent (10%) increase shall be based on each employee's monthly salary in effect on June 30, 1965, and may be rounded to the next highest even dollar.
The provisions of this Section shall be applied to increase salaries paid out of special funds or from sources other than tax revenues; provided, the necessary funds are made available from operations or from sponsoring agents. The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to allocate out of special operating funds, under which personnel is employed, sufficient funds to conform with the provisions of this Section; provided, funds are available or made available by the sponsoring agents.
Salaries for positions which are paid from funds which are partially from the General Fund and partially from sources other than the General Fund shall be increased from the General Fund appropriation only to the extent of the proportionate part paid from the General Fund.
The salary increases for employees whose salaries are paid from receipts received from self-supporting activities shall be contingent upon availability of funds out of receipts which shall be determined by the Director of the Budget.
The salary increases shall not affect the status of eligibility for automatic and/or merit salary increments for which the employee may be eligible for the fiscal years 1965-67 notwithstanding the granting of the Legislative salary increase.
The salary ranges for all employees under the Personnel Act shall be increased, so far as the maximum is concerned, by an amount equal to this Legislative salary increase to the end that, even after the salary increase provided for in this Act is made, every employee will continue to have the same relative position with respect to salary increase and future increments as he would have had if the salary increases provided by this Act had not been made.
The amounts appropriated herein from the General Fund for salary increases for Experiment Station and Agricultural Extension Service personnel, and other higher education institutional personnel who are exempt from the State Personnel Act, are intended to be proportional to the total salary increase for such personnel as the total of General Fund support for the respective activities is to the total budget for these activities.
The salary increase provided in this Act, shall not apply to persons separated from State service due to resignation, dismissal, reduction in force, death or retirement, whose last work day is prior to July 1, 1965.
EFFECTIVE
Sec. 22. The provisions of the Executive Budget Act, Chapter 143, Article 2 of the General Statutes, are re-enacted and shall remain in full force and effect, and are incorporated in this Act by reference.
Sec. 23. If any Section or provision of this Act be declared unconstitutional or invalid by the courts, the same shall not affect the validity of the Act as a whole or any part other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.
Sec. 24. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 25. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1965.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1965.