NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1157

HOUSE BILL 1147

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 120-3 SO AS TO AUTHORIZE MEMBERS AND PRESIDING OFFICERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO ELECT TO RECEIVE THEIR PAY IN INSTALLMENTS OVER THE TWO YEARS OF THEIR TERM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

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

"§ 120-3.  Payment in Installments or Upon Per Diem Basis; Extra Sessions. The pay of the members and presiding officers for a regular Session of the General Assembly as provided in Article 2 of § 28 of the Constitution of North Carolina may be paid in installments, or upon a per diem basis, as the several members and presiding officers may elect; provided, that 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 two presiding officers for the number of days the General Assembly has been in Session, and the total pay of the presiding officers and members at a regular Session shall in no case exceed two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400.00) for each presiding officer and one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800.00) for each member of both Houses. And provided further that the pay for an Extra Session of the General Assembly shall be twenty dollars ($20.00) per day for presiding officers and fifteen dollars ($15.00) per day for members for a period not to exceed twenty-five days. 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. Provided, any election to extend disbursement made by a member or presiding officer under this Section, shall be irrevocable, and may not be rescinded. And provided further, no installment shall be paid beyond the thirty-first day of the December immediately following the election of the succeeding General Assembly."

Sec. 1 1/2.  Provisions of this Act shall apply to the members of the Legislature for the years 1965 and 1966.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1965.