NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1107

SENATE BILL 19

 

 

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, 1968, and June 30, 1969, respectively, according to the following schedule:

 

I. GENERAL GOVERNMENT

1967-68                       1968-69

The General Assembly                                                           $                                 $    1,515,900

Judicial Department                                                                     5,829,892*               13,273,485*

Judicial Council                                                                                   1,165                          1,165

Counsel for Indigent Defendants                                                      747,830*                     816,730*

The Governor's Office                                                                    311,349*                     295,973*

The Lieutenant Governor                                                                  12,163                         12,451

Department of Administration                                                       3,815,919*                  3,952,799*

Department of Personnel                                                                 520,282*                     529,713*

Secretary of State                                                                           165,739                       169,723

State Auditor                                                                                  491,423                       549,996

State Treasurer:

1. State Treasurer                                                      $       209,138             $         221,332

2. Local Government Commission                                       115,356                       116,303

Department of Justice:

1. Attorney General                                                            236,287                       239,838

2. State Bureau of Investigation                                           675,591*                     639,624

3. General Statutes Commission                                           14,787                           14,851

Department of Revenue                                                               6,946,916*                  7,177,783*

Department of Tax Research                                                           106,895                       116,649

North Carolina Tax Review Board                                                      6,480                           6,524

State Board of Elections                                                                   40,612                           47,251

North Carolina Courts Commission                                                  22,500*                       22,500*

Legislative Research Commission                                                     16,000*                       16,000*

North Carolina Capital Planning Commission                                    35,000                           35,000

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                                        1,350,000*                  1,350,000*

Salary Adjustment Fund                                                                  794,075*                  1,460,743*

Salary Increases — Council of State                                             —                           8,000*

Subtotal — General Government                         $   22,465,399*          $   32,590,333*

 

II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION

The Adjutant General:

1. Adjutant General's Office                                     $         589,981*              $      596,105*

2. Armory Commission                                                        51,000                         41,600

State Civil Air Patrol                                                                        18,136                         18,352

State Civil Defense Agency                                                             159,562                       160,778

Department of Motor Vehicles:

1. Automobile Drivers' Financial

Responsibility Program                                                   568,608                       603,460

Utilities Commission                                                                        441,588                       442,420

Insurance Department:

1. Insurance Department                                                     745,564*                     766,213*

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                                                                      775,526                       795,833

Industrial Commission                                                                     413,070                       439,056*

State Board of Alcoholic Control                                                    731,897*                     740,972*

Department of Agriculture:

1. Gasoline and Oil Inspection Service                      $         140,957                $      137,199

____________              ____________

Subtotal — Public Safety and Regulation                  $    4,891,447*               $   4,997,546*

 

III. CORRECTION

North Carolina Board of Juvenile Correction:

1. General Administration                                         $       104,432                   $   108,353

2. Stonewall Jackson Training School                                649,599*                     678,809*

3. State Home and Industrial School for

Girls — Samarcand Manor                                           609,025*                     648,357*

4. Morrison Training School                                              734,063*                     755,252*

5. Eastern Carolina Training School                                   451,184*                     471,156*

6. State Training School for Girls — Dobbs

Farm                                                                            440,193*                     462,811*

7. Leonard Training School                                               516,819*                     547,030*

8. Juvenile Evaluation Center                                             891,062*                     925,844*

9. New Training School                                                     306,359*                     366,997*

Fugitives from Justice                                                                         6,500                           6,500

Prison Department                                                                    14,017,806*                14,566,670*

Probation Commission                                                               2,035,068                      2,022,525

Board of Paroles                                                                           816,298                        833,620

Subtotal — Correction                                           $    21,578,408*            $   22,393,924*

 

IV. PUBLIC WELFARE

Department of Public Welfare:

1. Department of Public Welfare                          $   18,275,468*                $   19,438,170*

2. Child Welfare and Day Care Services                      1,060,541                       1,099,740

State Commission for the Blind                                                1,980,891*                     2,011,830*

Veterans Commission:

1. Veterans Commission                                                 515,072*                        522,573*

2. County Service Officers                                               94,000                            94,000

Confederate Women's Home                                                       68,092                            68,554

Oxford Orphanage                                                                      62,250                            62,250

Junior Order Children's Home                                                      55,000                            55,000

Central Orphanage of North Carolina                                           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.                                                           12,593                            12,593

Subtotal — Public Welfare                                    $ 22,296,907*                $ 23,537,710*

 

V. EDUCATION

1967-68                        1968-69

Department of Public Instruction:

1. Administration and Supervision                           $    1,108,049                $    1,129,153

State Board of Education:

1. Nine months School Fund                                      308,415,173*              337,729,476*

2. State Board of Education                                              766,076                       769,494

3. Vocational Education                                                10,174,613*                11,457,721*

4. Purchase of Free Textbooks                                       9,867,240                    8,613,445

5. Vocational Textile School                                              116,549                       114,682

6. Purchase of School Buses                                          2,843,345                    2,843,345

7. Division of School Planning                                            207,286                         211,117

8. Comprehensive School Improvement Project                 785,716                         785,716

9. Vocational Rehabilitation                                            1,572,848*                    1,586,179*

10. Department of Community Colleges —

Equipment                                                                 4,952,058*                    1,602,449*

11. Instruction and Training for Trainable

Mentally Handicapped Children                                 1,073,067                      1,184,304

12. National Defense Education Program                           241,357                         248,395

13. Department of Community Colleges                        17,884,494*                22,877,148*

14. Program of Education by Television                             123,405                         124,905

15. Professional Improvement of Teachers                         154,374                         155,322

State Board of Higher Education:

1. State Board of Higher Education                                1,161,515*                    1,464,740*

2. State Education Assistance Authority                              30,600*                         30,600*

Department of Administration — Reserve for

Educational Benefits — Children of Veterans                                 651,334*                       650,844*

University of North Carolina (Consolidated):

1. General Administration                                                  743,715*                       770,399*

2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

a. University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill                                                       16,650,406*                18,021,743*

b. Division of Health Affairs                                       5,358,867                      5,826,362*

3. North Carolina State University at

Raleigh                                                                     13,200,016*                14,080,694*

4. University of North Carolina at

Greensboro                                                               5,186,556*                    5,783,256*

5. University of North Carolina at

Charlotte                                                                   2,168,633*                    2,447,200*

East Carolina College                                                                 7,031,938*                    7,701,739*

The Agricultural and Technical College                                       2,977,340*                    3,034,478*

Western Carolina College                                                           2,712,919*                    3,124,815*

Appalachian State Teachers College                                           3,706,731*                    4,073,122*

Pembroke State College                                                             1,266,208*                    1,221/765*

Winston-Salem State College                                                     1,313,164*                    1,268,190*

Elizabeth City State College                                                           906,856*                       918,105*

Fayetteville State College                                                           1,005,245*                       997,790*

1967-68                        1968-69

North Carolina College at Durham                                         $   2,793,133*               $   2,926,562*

Asheville-Biltmore College                                                            968,405*                    1,020,126*

Wilmington College                                                                       975,224*                    1,039,175*

North Carolina Board of Science and

Technology                                                                                   490,722*                       491,687*

North Carolina School for the Deaf                                            1,419,095*                    1,508,155*

Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf                                   554,286*                       636,680*

The Governor Morehead School                                                1,525,609*                    1,610,324*

Student Loan Funds:

1. Medical Care Commission — Medical Education          300,000                       300,000

2. State Board of Education — Teacher Education            747,500                       800,000

Department of Archives and History                                              963,661*                     974,433*

Tryon Palace — Department of Archives and

History                                                                                           96,743                        100,032

State Library:

1. Library                                                                        269,459*                       267,341*

2. State Aid to Public Libraries                                        792,768                         794,579

North Carolina Museum of Art                                                    347,571                         282,240

North Carolina State Art Society                                                      7,000                             7,000

North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc.                                         75,000                          75,000

North Carolina School of the Arts                                                667,194                         749,963

Old Salem, Inc. 62,500* 62,500*

Highlands Biological Station, Inc.                                                   15,150                           15,150

Moore's Creek Battleground Association                                           500                               500

Parkway Playhouse, Inc. — University of

North Carolina at Greensboro                                                       25,000*                               —

North Carolina Rhododendron Festival, Inc.                                   5,000*                               —

North Carolina Apple Festival                                                         2,500*                               —

Department of Administration:

1. Reserve for Higher Education — To

Replace Contributions by Auxiliary

Services to Academic Expense                                         30,000                         30,000

Subtotal — Education                                             $   439,491,713*        $   476,540,140*

 

VII. NON-HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION

State Ports Authority                                                                $   208,969*                  $   208,969*

 

VIII. HEALTH AND HOSPITALS

State Board of Health                                                            $   6,702,867*              $   6,908,776*

Medical Care Commission — Administration                                 178,257                       181,271

University of North Carolina:

1. Memorial Hospital — Psychiatric Center                       881,574*                     913,569*

2. Memorial Hospital                                                      3,540,093*                  3,978,514*

1967-68                          1968-69

Department of Mental Health:

1. General Administration                                         $   3,595,196*               $   4,255,930

2. Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program                                  301,271                         440,639

3. Dorothea Dix Hospital                                              6,176,675                      6,276,322

4. Broughton Hospital                                                   5,939,949                      5,969,324

5. Western Carolina Center                                          2,605,022*                    2,894,294

6. Cherry Hospital                                                        6,360,392                      6,483,739

7. O'Berry Center                                                         3,133,861                      3,191,012

8. John Umstead Hospital                                             5,001,461                      5,138,556

9. Murdoch Center                                                       4,590,430                      4,698,688

10. Caswell Center                                                       4,150,306                      4,235,785

11. Wright School                                                             78,277*                       145,000*

Advisory Council on Mental Retardation                                      134,211*                       135,531*

North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital                                             677,933                         679,207

North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital                                        283,941                         287,124

North Carolina Sanatorium System:

1. General Administration                                                    84,412*                       83,460

2. North Carolina Sanatorium                                       1,540,884                      1,570,223

3. Western North Carolina Sanatorium                          1,417,979                      1,453,148

4. Eastern North Carolina Sanatorium                           1,787,791                      1,824,252

5. Gravely Sanatorium                                                     769,460                         758,277

Asheville Orthopedic Hospital                                                       90,000                           90,000

North Carolina Cancer Institute, Inc.                                               26,000                          26,000

Subtotal — Health and Hospitals                            $   60,048,242*             $   62,618,641*

 

IX. NATURAL RESOURCES AND RECREATION

Department of Conservation and Development:

1. Department of Conservation and Development     $   5,444,652*              $   5,524,719*

2. Kerr Reservoir Development

Commission — Nutbush Conservation Area                   54,321                         53,160

Department of Water Resources                                                    794,917*                     801,794*

North Carolina National Park, Parkway and

Forests Development Commission                                                     9,916                           9,916

Industrial Extension Service —

North Carolina State University at Raleigh                                     235,951                       287,011

Rural Electrification Authority                                                          79,023                         80,373

North Carolina Recreation Commission                                         136,677                       136,791

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

Brevard Music Center                                                                    25,000*                         25,000*

Person-Caswell Lake Authority                                                       25,000*                                —

Subtotal — Natural Resources and

Recreation                                                               $   6,811,507*                 $   6,924,814*

 

X. AGRICULTURE

1967-68                        1968-69

Department of Agriculture                                                    $   3,902,850*                 $   4,016,272*

Agricultural Experiment Station — North

Carolina State University at Raleigh                                           4,171,027*                     4,362,384*

Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service —

North Carolina State University at Raleigh                                 4,060,566*                     4,187,162*

State Soil and Water Conservation

Committee                                                                                    200,706*                       201,951*

Subtotal — Agriculture                                           $   12,335,149*               $ 12,767,769*

 

XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS

Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System:

1. Administration                                                   $         377,952                $         390,014

2. State Contributions                                                61,553,260*                   65,059,826*

3. Teachers and State Employees Who

Had Attained Age 65 at August 1, 1959                      197,000                          189,000

Law Enforcement Officers' Benefit and

Retirement Fund — Contributions from

General Fund                                                                                68,188                            69,125

North Carolina Firemen's Pension Fund                                       517,205                          516,779

Pensions — Confederate Widows                                                 30,192                            21,192

Pensions — Widows of Governors                                                  12,000                           12,000

Subtotal — Retirement and Pensions                     $   62,755,797*               $   66,257,936*

 

XIII. DEBT SERVICE

Interest on Bonds                                                               $    6,295,459*              $      6,293,448*

Redemption of Bonds                                                              11,215,000                     11,480,000

Landscrip Fund                                                                                 7,500                              7,500

Subtotal — Debt Service                                        $   17,517,959*             $   17,780,948*

 

XIV. SALARY INCREASES

State Employees Subject to Personnel Act                         $      6,707,796*            $       6,781,152*

TOTAL — GENERAL FUND                             $   677,109,293*           $   733,399,882*

 

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, 1968, and June 30, 1969, respectively, according to the following schedule:

 

I. GENERAL GOVERNMENT

1967-68                          1968-69

Salary Adjustments — Highway Fund Employees                 $   150,000*                     $   350,000*

 

II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION

Department of Motor Vehicles                                            $   18,669,933*             $   19,440,263*

Transportation Inspection (Utilities

Commission)                                                                               202,247                         201,469

Gasoline Inspection Service (Department

of Agriculture)                                                                             367,168                         365,108

Subtotal — Public Safety and Regulation                 $   19,239,348*             $   20,006,840*

 

V. EDUCATION

Driver Training and Safety Education                                   $    2,044,389                $      2,201,987

 

VI. HIGHWAYS

State Highway Commission:

1. Merit Salary Increments                                      $    1,909,630                $      3,306,451*

2. Reserve for Contingencies                                            965,819*                        939,017*

3. General Administration                                              2,989,954                       3,007,675*

4. Engineering Administration and

Supervision                                                              7,038,571*                     6,962,790*

5. State Maintenance and Construction:

a. Primary System                                                   33,000,000                    36,000,000

b. Secondary System                                              50,300,000*                  52,729,205*

c. Urban System                                                      6,700,000                       7,300,000

d. Public Service Roads                                           1,300,000                       1,330,000

6. State Funds to Match Federal Aid

Highway Planning Survey and Highway

Planning Research                                                       521,666                          521,666

7. State Funds to Match Federal Aid

Construction                                                           35,300,000                    37,500,000

8. State Aid to Municipalities                                        9,937,500                    10,265,000

Subtotal — Highways                                        $ 149,963,140*             $ 159,861,804*

 

XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS

Contributions to Retirement System —

Salary Adjustments                                                              $         20,000*                $       40,000*

Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement

System:

Contribution from Highway Fund —

Salary Increases                                                                          438,758*                        448,121*

Contribution from State Highway

Commission                                                                              7,023,033*                     7,327,909*

Subtotal — Retirement and Pensions                        $   7,481,791*                 $   7,816,030*

 

XIII. DEBT SERVICE

1967-68                          1968-69

Interest on and Redemption of

Highway Bonds                                                                    $   32,178,187                 $   32,468,250

 

XIV. SALARY INCREASES

Salary Increases for Highway

Fund Employees                                                               $      4,157,580*            $       4,180,273*

TOTAL — HIGHWAY FUND                            $   215,214,435*           $   226,885,184*

 

Transfers and changes may be made in the Highway Fund from Merit Salary Increments, Salary Increases, Salary Adjustments, Contribution to Retirement System — Salary Increases, and Contribution to Retirement System — Salary Adjustments to other operating appropriations in the Highway Fund by authorization of the Director of the Budget. Transfers and changes may be made from Reserve for Contingencies to other operating appropriations in the Highway Fund by authorization of the Governor and Council of State. 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 (1¢) gasoline tax for Debt Service, exceed the estimated revenues for each year of the biennium, to wit, one hundred eighty-one million, five hundred fifteen thousand dollars ($181,515,000) for the fiscal year 1967-68 and one hundred eighty-nine million, six hundred seventy-eight thousand dollars ($189,678,000) for the fiscal year 1968-69, such excesses may be allocated in the next succeeding year by the Director of the Budget, to increase the appropriations under Titles II and 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 II and VI — 3, 4, 5(a), (b), (c), (d), 6 and 7.

Sec. 4.  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. 5.  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. 6.  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. 7.  Appropriations made herein to the various State agencies for the purpose of purchase of medical, dental, and optometric care, services and treatment, including hospitalization, will be disbursed on the basis of fee schedules and rates approved by the Advisory Budget Commission.

Sec. 8.  The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to transfer, as between the three institutions, the appropriations made in this Act for the North Carolina School for the Deaf, the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, and the Governor Morehead School, when in his opinion it shall be deemed to be in the best interest of the State.

Sec. 9.  Funds appropriated herein to the State Board of Education to provide for additional teachers and/or for specified purposes shall be used for those purposes, and may not be diverted to any other use, except in emergency situations as determined by the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission.

Sec. 10.  It is the intention of this Act that, as to new units except those herein authorized, no recommendations for establishment of additional units shall be made by the Department of Community Colleges in the absence of a showing of a clear and urgent need in a particular area of the State, to the end that during the 1969-71 biennium adequate support may be provided for equipping and upgrading the operations, and for providing State matching funds for capital improvements, at existing institutions.

It is the further intention of this Act that it shall be the announced policy of the Department of Community Colleges that, as to capital improvement projects, no construction contracts may be let until it has been clearly established that funds are available for the related permanent equipment.

In order to assure a fair and equitable apportionment of teaching salary funds to each institution of the Community College System, the funds appropriated to the State Board of Education, Department of Community Colleges, (Budget Code 18062) in this Act may be used by the State Board of Education to establish a State-wide salary schedule making available to each institution an average curriculum teacher salary for 12 months service of eight thousand nine hundred dollars ($8,900) in fiscal year 1967-68 and of nine thousand six hundred dollars ($9,600) in fiscal year 1968-69, or so near such State-wide average salary each year as may be possible within the funds herein appropriated for operation of the institutions of the Community College System.

Sec. 11.  The Director of the Budget shall require that the Highway 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. 12.  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. 13.  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 1967-69 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. 14.  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, 1967 under the salary schedule established by the State Personnel Board. The Director of the Budget is further authorized to transfer any unexpended balance which may remain at the end of each fiscal year, after the provisions of this Section have been fully met, from the appropriations for Salary Increases of State Employees Subject to the Personnel Act, to the appropriations for Salary Adjustments of State Employees.

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, 1967, for all full-time, permanent employees in accordance with the following provisions: For granting a six per cent (6%) Legislative salary increase to each permanent full-time employee who is subject to the provisions of the State Personnel Act. This six per cent (6%) increase shall be based on each employee's monthly salary in effect on June 30, 1967, and may be rounded to conform to the steps in the salary ranges adopted by the State Personnel Board.

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 are 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 1967-69 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, 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 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, 1967.

Sec. 14.1.  The salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall be twenty-eight thousand dollars ($28,000) per annum, and the salaries of each of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court shall be twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000) per annum; the salary of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals shall be twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per annum, and the salaries of each of the Judges of said Court shall be twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000) per annum; the salaries of the Judges of the Superior Court shall be twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) per annum; the salary of the Chief Judge of each District Court shall be fifteen thousand five hundred dollars ($15,500) per annum, and the salary of each District Court Judge shall be fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per annum. The salary of the Administrative Officer of the Courts shall be twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) per annum and the salary of the Assistant Administrative Officer of the Courts shall be sixteen thousand five hundred dollars ($16,500) per annum.

 

EFFECTIVE

Sec. 15.  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. 16.  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. 17.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 18.  This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1967.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of July, 1967.