NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 672

HOUSE BILL 873

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE THEATER EMPLOYEES SUBJECT TO THE NORTH CAROLINA MINIMUM WAGE ACT AND TO TEMPORARILY SET A TWO DOLLAR MINIMUM FOR SEASONAL RECREATIONAL EMPLOYEES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 95-86(3)d. as it appears in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2C of the General Statutes is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"d.        Newsboys, shoeshine boys, caddies on golf courses, baby sitters;".

Sec. 2.  Chapter 95 is further amended by adding a new Section G.S. 95-88 to read as follows:

"§ 95-88.  Seasonal recreational employees. — Notwithstanding the minimum wage rate set by G.S. 95-87, the minimum wage for any employee employed by an establishment which is a seasonal religious assembly or a seasonal amusement or recreational establishment shall be two dollars ($2.00). A seasonal religious assembly or a seasonal amusement or recreational establishment is an establishment which does not operate for more than seven months in any calendar year, or during the preceding calendar year its average receipts for any six months of such year were not more than thirty-three and one-third percentum (33 1/3%) of its average receipts for the other six months of such year. This section shall be null and void effective July 1, 1979."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of June, 1977.