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.