NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1052

HOUSE BILL 1196

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 115-157 TO PROVIDE TWELVE MONTHS EMPLOYMENT FOR CLASSIFIED PRINCIPALS AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOR THIS PURPOSE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115-157 as the same appears in the 1966 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes is hereby amended by striking the last sentence of the second full paragraph thereof which reads "Classified principals in the public schools of the State shall be employed for a term of ten (10) months and shall be paid on the basis of ten (10) months' service: Provided, that the State Board of Education may in its discretion and under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, provide for the payment of the salaries of classified principals and supervisors in twelve equal monthly installments in such administrative units as shall request the same.", and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"Classified principals shall be employed for a term of 12 calendar months and shall be paid monthly at the end of each calendar month of service for the term of their employment. Included within the 12 calendar months' employment shall be 1.25 days of annual vacation leave for each month of the 12 months' service which shall be designated by each county and city board of education at a time when students are not scheduled to be in regular attendance. Included within the 12 calendar months' employment, each county and city board of education shall designate the same or an equivalent number of legal holidays occurring within the period of employment for classified principals as those designated by the State Personnel Council for State employees. Within policy adopted by the State Board of Education, each county and city board of education shall develop rules and regulations to fix and regulate the duties of classified principals during all times included within their term of employment."

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Board of Education, Nine Months School Fund, to provide for the term of employment of classified principals as extended from ten and one-fourth school months, ten and three-fourths school months, eleven and one-fourth school months to twelve calendar months for classified principals in schools having at least fifteen teachers, the following amounts based on salary increases recommended by the Advisory Budget Commission for the 1971-73 biennium:

Year 1972-73                                   Amount                                    $2,838,260.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.