NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1120

HOUSE BILL 1091

 

 

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 120-3 WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 120-3 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 120-3.  Pay of Members and Presiding Officers of the General Assembly. (a) The members of the General Assembly for the term for which they have been elected shall receive as compensation for their services the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per day for each day of their session and each day of any extra or special session. The compensation of the presiding officers of the two houses shall be twenty dollars ($20.00) per day for each day of the session and for each day of any extra or special session.

"(b)      The pay of the members and presiding officers for a regular session of the General Assembly may be paid in installments, or upon a per diem basis, as the several members and presiding officers may elect, but in no instance shall installments or per diem amount to more than fifteen dollars ($15.00) per day for the members and twenty dollars ($20.00) per day for the presiding officers for the number of days the General Assembly has been in session.

"(c)       Any member or presiding officer may extend the disbursement of his pay over the two years of his term. Any member electing to do so shall notify the Department of Administration of his decision and shall designate any part of the total pay due him to be disbursed after the first day of January in the second year of his term. Any election to extend disbursement made by a member or presiding officer under this subsection shall be irrevocable and may not be rescinded. No installment shall be paid beyond the thirty-first day of December immediately following the election of the succeeding General Assembly."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective on 1 July 1967.

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