NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1068

HOUSE BILL 1235

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE TEN CALENDAR MONTHS EMPLOYMENT FOR CERTIFIED TEACHERS AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOR THIS PURPOSE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund for the support of public schools the sum of $4,230,648 for the fiscal year 1972-1973, and $24,228 from the Highway Fund for the fiscal year 1972-73, to be used to extend the term of employment for certified teachers by an additional two working days in the second year of the biennium 1971-73.

Sec. 2.  The ten calendar months of employment for certified teachers as provided for herein shall include days of paid vacation, paid legal holidays, and additional days of sick leave. The vacation shall be 1.25 days per month employed as is afforded regular state employees and the holidays shall be those as may occur during the period of employment and as are designated by the State Personnel Office. Sick leave shall be .833 per month employed. The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to formulate the necessary rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this section.

Sec. 3.  The sums appropriated herein shall be over and above and in addition to those sums recommended by the Advisory Budget Commission for public education and included in the Budget Current Operations Appropriations Bill for the biennium 1971-1973 being House Bill 53.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1971.

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