NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 685

HOUSE BILL 1044

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE II OF CHAPTER 95 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO PROVIDE THAT PERSONS WORKING IN EXCESS OF FIFTY HOURS IN ANY ONE WEEK SHALL BE PAID OVERTIME.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Article II of Chapter 95 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section which will read as follows:

"§ 95-17.1.  Overtime. — Any employee not exempt from the provisions of this Article working in excess of fifty hours in any one week shall be paid time and a half at his regular rate of pay for such excess hours."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1973.