NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 683

SENATE BILL 13

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT OPERATIONS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENTS, BUREAUS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AGENCIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

GENERAL FUND

Section 1.  Appropriations from the General Fund of the State for the maintenance of the State departments, bureaus, institutions, and for other purposes as enumerated are hereby made for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1964, and June 30, 1965, respectively, according to the following schedule:

 

I. GENERAL GOVERNMENT

1963-64                       1964-65

General Assembly                                                               $                                  $       1,126,050

Supreme Court                                                                          349,916*                          349,916*

Superior Courts                                                                      1,240,167*                       1,240,167*

Judicial Council                                                                               4,410                                4,410

The Governor's Office                                                                181,914                            184,617

The Lieutenant Governor                                                                  —                                   1,550

Department of Administration                                                  2,206,975*                       2,133,457*

Department of Personnel                                                             186,999                            192,521

Merit System Council                                                                   54,833                              56,211

Secretary of State                                                                       111,456                            111,047

State Auditor                                                                             309,045*                          318,501*

State Treasurer:

1. State Treasurer                                                           169,284                            179,607

2. Local Government Commission                                     89,679                              91,376

Department of Justice:

1. Attorney General                                                        168,852                            171,419

2. Bureau of Investigation                                               437,829*                          439,940*

3. General Statutes Commission                                        11,270                              11,350

Department of Revenue                                                           5,179,631*                       5,401,555*

Department of Tax Research                                                         79,370                              88,213

Tax Review Board                                                                          5,665                                5,709

State Board of Elections                                                               26,250                              27,194

Contingency and Emergency:

1. To provide for contingency and emer-

gency expenditures for any purpose

authorized by law for which no spe-

cific appropriation is made hereunder,

or for which inadvertently an insuffi-

cient appropriation has been made

under this Section. Allotments 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

Subtotal— General Government                             $ 12,563,545*              $     13,884,810*

 

II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION

The Adjutant General:

1. Adjutant General's Office                                            515,333                            520,321

2. Armory Commission                                                     50,500                              36,000

State Civil Air Patrol                                                                     15,875                              15,982

State Civil Defense Agency                                                         137,487                            140,629

Department of Motor Vehicles:

1. Automobile Drivers' Financial Re-

sponsibility Program                                                   306,650                            320,280

Utilities Commission                                                                   307,853*                          314,979*

Insurance Department:

1. Insurance Department                                                 485,843                            500,771

2. State Property Fire Insurance                                      250,000                            250,000

3. Firemen's Relief                                                              1,750                                1,750

4. Building Code Council                                                    4,008                                4,008

Department of Labor                                                                  630,502                            645,603

Industrial Commission                                                                329,667*                          330,612*

State Board of Alcoholic Control                                                581,958                            594,216

Department of Agriculture:

1. Gasoline and Oil Inspection Service                              90,091*                            88,059*

Subtotal — Public Safety and Regulation                 $   3,707,517*              $       3,763,210*

 

III. CORRECTION

Board of Correction and Training:

1. General Administration                                                  75,493                              78,605

2. Stonewall Jackson Training School                             481,924*                          498,276*

3. State Home and Industrial School for

Girls — Samarcand Manor                                        365,391*                          380,124*

4. Morrison Training School                                           517,279*                          539,524*

5. Eastern Carolina Training School                                287,614*                          301,733*

6. State Training School for Girls —

Dobbs Farm                                                      $      257,179*             $           267,286*

7. Leonard Training School                                            396,816*                          420,258*

8. Juvenile Evaluation

and Treatment Center                                                348,609*                          460,570*

Fugitives from Justice                                                                      6,500                                6,500

Prison Department                                                                11,039,798*                     11,587,356*

Probation Commission                                                             1,045,516                         1,208,808

Board of Paroles                                                                        557,819                            679,466

Subtotal — Correction                                           $ 15,379,938*             $      16,428,506*

 

IV. PUBLIC WELFARE

Department of Public Welfare                                                13,213,582*                     13,858,855*

State Commission for the Blind                                                1,264,008*                       1,285,348*

Veterans Commission:

1. Veterans Commission                                                 367,775                            376,838

2. County Service Officers                                                90,000                              90,000

Confederate Women's Home                                                        61,718                              63,588

Oxford Orphanage                                                                       62,250                              62,250

Junior Order Orphanage                                                               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

Subtotal — Public Welfare                                     $ 15,287,333*             $      15,964,879*

 

V. EDUCATION

Department of Public Instruction:

1. Department of Public Instruction                                 869,970                            950,787

2. Experimental Program Relating to Merit

Plan for Teachers                                                         41,032                              41,581

State Board of Education:

1. Nine Months School Fund                                   237,516,312*                   244,863,707*

2. Incentive Compensation for Recognized

Merit in Teaching                                                       120,000                            120,000

3. State Board of Education                                            533,470                            537,439

4. Vocational Education                                             11,041,796                       12,119,074

5. Purchase of Free Textbooks                                    3,999,895                         3,373,423

6. Vocational Textile School                                           107,845                            101,887

7. Purchase of School Buses                                        2,580,470                         2,580,470

8. Division of School Planning                                         127,633*                          131,367*

9. Vocational Rehabilitation                                    $    1,050,870               $        1,058,222

10. Vocational Education — Industrial

Education Centers — Equipment                             1,814,000                         1,116,000

11. Instructional Services for Homebound

Children                                                                           -0-*                                  -0-*

12. Instruction and Training for Train-

able Mentally Handicapped Children                          414,666                            453,594

13. National Defense Education Program                        197,776                            199,681

14. Comprehensive Community Colleges

Program                                                                     300,000                            700,000

15. Program of Education by Television                          117,700                            120,238

16. Curriculum Study and Research                                113,762                            116,734

17. Professional Improvement of

Teachers                                                                   150,000*                          150,000*

State Board of Higher Education                                                117,366*                          119,424*

University of North Carolina (Consolidated):

1. General Administration                                               253,822*                          256,091*

2. Long Range Planning Program                                      37,496                              38,393

3. University of North Carolina:

a. University of North Carolina                                8,475,922*                       9,270,007*

b. Division of Health Affairs                                    3,804,099*                       3,987,104*

4. State College of Agriculture and

Engineering                                                             7,907,771*                       8,710,248*

5. The Woman's College                                              2,661,532                         2,863,350

East Carolina College                                                              3,429,090*                       3,818,690*

The Agricultural and Technical College                                     1,863,754                         2,044,191

Western Carolina College                                                        1,412,342*                       1,507,877*

Appalachian State Teachers College                                        1,808,880*                       1,871,403*

Pembroke State College                                                             475,892*                          468,749*

Winston-Salem Teachers College                                               681,154*                          762,098*

Elizabeth City State Teachers College                                         641,232*                          673,392*

Fayetteville State Teachers College                                             560,380*                          608,290*

North Carolina College at Durham                                           1,784,040*                       1,925,573*

North Carolina School for the Deaf                                         1,107,933*                       1,130,544*

Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf                                   53,288                           187,400*

State School for the Blind and the Deaf                                    1,058,670*                       1,125,297*

Student Loan Funds:

1. Medical Care Commission — Medical

Education                                                                     12,500                              50,000

2. State Board of Education — Teacher

Education                                                                   592,500                            645,000

Department of Archives and History                                            565,933                            581,129

Tryon Palace Commission — Department of

Archives and History                                                                    77,542                              78,875

State Library:

1. Library                                                                       173,864                            175,614

2. State Aid to Public Libraries                                       470,043                            471,793

North Carolina Museum of Art                                           $      221,077*             $           212,615*

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

Old Salem, Inc.                                                                            50,000*                            50,000*

Highlands Biological Station, Inc.                                                  10,750*                            10,750*

Moore's Creek Battleground Association                                           500                                   500

North Carolina Confederate Centennial

Commission                                                                                  60,432                              60,432

Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission                                   36,476                                     —

Department of Archives and History — Caro-

lina Charter Tercentenary Commission —

Colonial Records Project                                                               6,564*                            18,128*

Department of Administration:

1. Community Colleges                                                   500,455                           636,320*

2. Reserve for Conversion of Community

Colleges to Four-Year Status                                     800,000                         1,200,000

3. Reserve for Higher Education — To

Replace Contributions by Auxiliary

Services to Academic Expense                                   275,000                            275,000

Subtotal— Education                                             $ 303,160,496*            $    314,643,481*

 

VII. NON-HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION

State Ports Authority                                                                  198,127                            198,327

 

VIII. HEALTH AND HOSPITALS

State Board of Health                                                              4,219,392*                       4,306,482*

Medical Care Commission:

1. Medical Care Commission —

Administration                                                            109,650                            113,383

University of North Carolina:

1. Memorial Hospital — Psychiatric

Center                                                                       690,708*                          711,255*

2. Memorial Hospital                                                    2,247,969*                     2,337,672*

Hospitals Board of Control:

1. General Administration                                                272,194                            324,499

2. Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program                                 229,835                            231,164

3. Dorothea Dix Hospital                                             4,490,877                         4,594,973

4. Broughton Hospital                                                  4,385,090                         4,504,869

5. Western Carolina School                                            896,000                         1,121,000

6. Cherry Hospital                                                       4,319,572                         4,397,201

7. O'Berry School                                                       1,782,577                         1,858,540

8. John Umstead Hospital                                            3,421,542                         3,493,809

9. Murdoch School                                                      2,821,505                         2,888,801

10. Caswell School                                                      2,965,433                         3,046,122

11. Demonstration School for Re-Educa-

tion of Emotionally Disturbed

Children                                                                       37,000                              37,000

North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital                                   $       544,845               $           564,281

North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital                                       225,485                            229,019

North Carolina Sanatorium System:

1. General Administration                                                  43,564                              43,523

2. North Carolina Sanatorium                                      1,288,744                         1,297,856

3. Western North Carolina Sanatorium                         1,181,576                         1,207,587

4. Eastern North Carolina Sanatorium                          1,495,894                         1,527,228

5. Gravely Sanatorium                                                    528,574                            534,619

Asheville Orthopedic Hospital                                                       75,000                              75,000

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

Subtotal— Health and Hospitals                             $   38,299,026*            $      39,471,883*

 

IX. NATURAL RESOURCES AND RECREATION

Department of Conservation and Development:

1. Department of Conservation and

Development                                                            3,561,175*                     3,540,699*

2. Division of Commercial Fisheries                                 256,412                            213,789

3. Division of Commercial Fisheries —

Shellfish Division                                                        113,090                            113,798

4. Kerr Reservoir Development Com-

mission — Nutbush Conservation Area                        35,240                              36,034

Department of Water Resources                                                  579,275*                        587,714*

North Carolina National Park, Parkway and

Forests Development Commission                                                  8,572                                9,052

Industrial Extension Service — State College

of Agriculture and Engineering                                                      106,037*                        112,149*

Rural Electrification Authority    68,060 69,754

North Carolina Recreation Commission                                       101,329                            103,134

Confederate Museum — Richmond, Va                                             200                                   200

Confederate Cemetery — Raleigh, N.C.                                            350                                   350

Brevard Music Center, Inc.                                                             7,500                                7,500

Garden Clubs of North Carolina, Inc— The

Elizabethan Garden                                                                         5,500                                5,500

Subtotal — Natural Resources and

Recreation                                                             $     4,842,740*            $        4,799,673*

 

X. AGRICULTURE

Department of Agriculture:

1. Contribution from General Fund                               2,295,295                         2,342,904

2. State Meat and Poultry Inspection

Program                                                                     468,508                            467,184

Agricultural Experiment Station —

State College                                                                            2,714,742*                     2,936,382*

Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service

—State College                                                                 $     3,068,142*            $        3,399,682*

State Soil and Water Conservation

Committee                                                                                  192,370                            144,745

Subtotal — Agriculture                                           $     8,739,057*            $        9,290,897*

 

XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS

Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement

System:

1. Administration                                                            295,042                            301,467

2. State Contributions                                                 28,451,967*                   29,708,650*

3. Teachers and State Employees Who

Had Attained Age 65 at August

1, 1959                                                                      210,600                            202,200

Law Enforcement Officers' Benefit and Re-

tirement Fund — Contributions from General

Fund                                                                                            23,836                              25,117

North Carolina Firemen's Pension Fund                                      253,386                            254,190

Pensions — Confederate Widows                                                94,242                              94,242

Pensions — Widows of Governors                                               12,000                              12,000

Subtotal — Retirement and Pensions                      $   29,341,073*            $      30,597,866*

 

XIII. DEBT SERVICE

Interest on Bonds                                                                    3,340,407                         3,335,832

Redemption of Bonds                                                              7,285,000                         8,305,000

Landscrip Fund                                                                              7,500                                7,500

Subtotal — Debt Service                                       $  10,632,907               $      11,648,332

 

XIV. SALARY INCREASES

Salary Increases, SPA Employees                                             2,012,280*                     2,012,280*

Salary Increases for Members of Council

of State                                                                                        45,000                              45,000

Subtotal— Salary Increases                                   $     2,057,280*            $        2,057,280*

 

XV. SALARY ADJUSTMENT FUNDS

Salary Adjustments, General Fund

Employees                                                                                   666,667*                     1,333,333*

TOTAL — GENERAL FUND                              $ 444,875,706*            $    464,082,477*

 

HIGHWAY FUND

Sec. 2.  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, 1964, and June 30, 1965, respectively, according to the following schedule:

 

II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION

1963-64                       1964-65

Department of Motor Vehicles                                           $  11,456,170               $      11,703,398

Transportation Inspection (to Utilities

Commission)                                                                              160,609                            164,886

Gasoline Inspection Service (Department

of Agriculture)                                                                             334,865*                        339,411*

Subtotal — Public Safety and

Regulation                                                              $   11,951,644*            $      12,207,695*

 

VI. HIGHWAYS

State Highway Commission:

1. Merit Salary Increments                                           1,555,780                         2,670,565

2. Reserve for Contingencies                                           500,000                            500,000

3. General Administration                                             1,704,055                         1,697,842

4. Engineering Administration and Supervision              5,041,641                         4,988,607

5. State Maintenance and Construction:

a. Primary System                                                 22,325,000                       23,000,000

b. Secondary System                                             56,956,871*                   60,095,093*

c. Urban System                                                     3,870,000                         4,110,000

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

6. State Funds to Match Federal Aid

Construction                                                      $  25,300,000               $      26,000,000

7. State Aid to Municipalities                                       7,950,833                         8,268,750

Subtotal — Highways                                            $ 126,504,180*            $    132,630,857*

 

XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS

Contribution to Retirement System                                            3,086,290*                     3,169,434*

 

XIII. DEBT SERVICE

Interest on and Redemption of Highway

Bonds                                                                                   12,355,188                       12,386,750

 

XIV. SALARY INCREASES

1963-64                       1964-65

 

Salary Increases, SPA Employees                                      $     1,313,280*            $        1,313,280*

 

XV. SALARY ADJUSTMENT FUNDS

Salary Adjustments, Highway Fund

Employees                                                                                   250,000*                        500,000*

TOTAL — HIGHWAY FUND                             $ 155,460,582              $    162,208,016

(Transfers and changes may be made in the Highway Fund from Merit Salary Increments and Reserve for Contingencies to other operating appropriations in the Highway Fund under authorization by the Director of the Budget.) Transfers and changes may be made to and/or from Title VI-3,4,5, (a), (b), (c), (d), and 6 under authorization by the Director of the Budget: Provided, Title VI-5 (a), (b), (c), (d) or 6 shall not be reduced 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 forty-four million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand dollars ($144,999,000) for the fiscal year 1963-64 and the amount of one hundred forty-nine million nine hundred fourteen thousand dollars ($149,914,000) for the fiscal year 1964-65 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), and 6. 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) and 6.

 

AGRICULTURE FUND

Sec. 3.  Appropriations from the Agriculture Fund of the State for maintenance of agricultural activities are hereby made for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1964, and June 30, 1965, respectively, according to the following schedule:

1963-64                       1964-65

1. Department of Agriculture                                                    1,451,450                         1,451,450

2. State Fair (The State Fair may be

operated within its own receipts in the

discretion of the State Board of Agri-

culture.)

 

WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION

Sec. 4.  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 1963-65, subject to expenditure under the provisions of the Executive Budget Act, G.S. 143-1:

1963-64                       1964-65

Wildlife Resources Commission                                          $     2,962,614*            $        3,028,988*

Wildlife Resources Commission —

Motorboat Section                                                                     141,015                            117,700

TOTAL                                                                             $     3,103,629*            $        3,146,688*

Sec. 5.  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 1, General Statutes of North Carolina.

 

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 6.  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. 7.  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. 8.  Appropriations made to the North Carolina School for the Deaf, to the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, and to the State School for the Blind and the Deaf under Section 1 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. 9.  From the funds appropriated to the State institutions of higher education in Section 1 of this Act and institutional receipts accruing to said institutions, the respective State institutions of higher education are hereby directed to pay to 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. 10.  Appropriations made to the Oxford Colored Orphanage under Section 1 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. 11.  Annual receipts collected by the institutions operating under the control of the Hospitals Board of Control which exceed the authorized budgeted amounts for each such institution shall be reserved for the use of the Hospitals Board of Control for the purpose of developing research programs in the area of mental illness. Provided, however, that the amounts reserved shall not exceed $50,000.

Sec. 12.  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 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 1 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 source or 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. 13.  Subject to rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Administration and approved by the Director of the Budget any State department, institution, commission or other 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 employee is directed by the employing agency to transfer from one location to another.

Sec. 14.  The appropriations made to the Department of Administration for the purpose of providing grants-in-aid toward maintenance and operation of community colleges at Charlotte, Asheville, Elizabeth City, and Wilmington, or any other community college or colleges which may become eligible for grants under the provisions of G.S. 116-53, shall constitute a lump sum from which payments shall be made to each community college upon a certification by the North Carolina Board of Higher Education of the sum to which each community college has become entitled as a result of allowing four dollars ($4.00) per student quarter hour of instruction actually delivered to North Carolina residents and courses approved for such State aid by said Board of Higher Education; and the Governor and Council of State may allot additional money out of the Contingency and Emergency Fund in case the regular appropriations herein made for this purpose prove to be inadequate.

Sec. 15.  The appropriations made to the Department of Administration for the purpose of conversion of the Community Colleges at Charlotte, Asheville, and Wilmington to four-year status shall constitute a lump sum from which payments shall be made to each college by the Advisory Budget Commission; to qualify for such conversion the individual colleges must provide adequate academic staff, curriculum, and facilities to make possible presentation of four-year college level of instruction.

Sec. 16.  The appropriations made to the State Board of Education for the development of a system of Comprehensive Community Colleges offering college parallel, technical-vocational-terminal, and adult education instruction tailored to area needs shall be distributed to such institutions upon the certification of the State Board of Education to the Department of Administration that adequate academic staff, curriculum, and facilities are available to make possible presentation of post-high school level of instruction.

Sec. 16.1.  The Attendance Counselors are to be allocated by the State Board of Education on a formula that will not result in more than one counselor being allocated to any one school unit; except that more than one counselor may be assigned to a school unit if such school unit now has more than one attendance counselor; provided that no one school unit may have more counselors allocated to such unit than are now employed by that unit; also to provide that no unit will be allocated a counselor unless a written request be submitted by the Board of Education of such school unit; also that attendance counselors now employed by the various school units shall be judged to be qualified to meet the employment standards established by the State Board of Education for these positions.

Sec. 17.  For the biennium 1963-65 there shall, from time to time, be allocated to the State Board of Education from the Contingency and Emergency Fund such amounts as are necessary for education expense grants in accordance with Article 35 of Chapter 115 of the General Statutes and such amounts as are necessary for the administration of said Article.

Sec. 17.1.  Subject to a recommendation of the Advisory Budget Commission, funds not to exceed $100,000 for each year of the biennium 1963-65 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.

Sec. 18.  The Department of Administration upon approval of the Advisory Budget Commission is authorized to transfer funds appropriated by this Act to the State Prison Department, Probation Commission, and Board of Paroles as required for carrying out the most effective correctional program in North Carolina.

 

SALARIES AND WAGES

Sec. 19.  The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to transfer from the appropriations made in Section 1 of this Act for Salary Increases of members of the Council of State to provide annual compensation of $18,000 to each of the members of the Council.

Sec. 19.1.  The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to transfer from the appropriations made for (1) Salary Adjustment Funds (2) Legislative Salaries Increase Funds, made in Section 1 and 2 of this Act, sums which may be required for distribution to agencies upon appropriate action by the Personnel Council for positions subject to the Personnel Act, or upon action by the Advisory Budget Commission for positions exempt from the Personnel Act.

The appropriations included in Sections 1 and 2 of this Act shall be transferred by the Director of the Budget to departments, institutions and agencies as may be required to increase salaries effective July 1, 1963, for full-time permanent positions in accordance with the following provisions: (1) For granting a $120 annual salary increase to each permanent, full-time position, (2) For adjusting Salaries of Job Classifications which are found by survey to be below the salaries for comparable competitive job classifications.

The provisions of this Section may 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.

Any full-time, permanent employee whose salary is paid partially from the General Fund and partially from other sources shall receive a salary increase from the General Fund appropriation only in the proportion that his salary is paid from the General Fund.

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 year 1963-65 notwithstanding the granting of the legislative salary increase.

The salary ranges for all employees shall be increased, so far as the minimum and maximum is concerned, by the amount of $120, 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 salary increase, provided in this Section shall not apply to persons, separated from State service due to resignation, dismissal, reduction in force, death, retirement, or leave without pay, whose last work day is prior to July 1, 1963.

Sec. 19.2.  The appropriations made to the State Board of Education for Salary Increases of School Bus Mechanics and for Property and Cost Control Clerks under the Nine Month School Fund shall be used to increase salaries effective July 1, 1963, for full-time, permanent positions, in accordance with the following provisions: (1) For granting a $120 annual salary increase to each permanent, full-time school bus mechanic, and (2) for granting a $120 annual salary increase to each permanent, full-time Property and Cost Control Clerk.

Any full-time, permanent employee whose salary is paid partially from State funds and partially from local funds shall receive a salary increase from this appropriation only in the proportion that his salary is paid from State funds.

 

EFFECTIVE

Sec. 20.  The provisions of the Executive Budget Act, G.S. 143-1, are re-enacted and shall remain in full force and effect, and are incorporated in this Act by reference.

Sec. 21.  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. 22.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 23.  This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1963.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of June, 1963.