NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1139

HOUSE BILL 286

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 138-5 SO AS TO INCREASE PER DIEM PAYMENTS TO FIFTEEN DOLLARS PER DIEM, TO ESTABLISH THE RATE OF PAYMENT FOR TRAVEL BY PRIVATE AUTOMOBILE AS THE SAME PAID TO STATE OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES, TO INCREASE SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCE TO TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS PER DAY, AND TO INCREASE CONVENTION REGISTRATION FEES TO FIFTY DOLLARS FOR MEMBERS OF STATE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 138-5 is hereby amended by rewriting subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b)      Members of State boards, commissions, and committees shall be allowed travel expenses at the following rates:

(1)        For transportation by privately-owned automobile, the same mileage allowance as is paid State officers and employees pursuant to G.S. 138‑6(a)(l).

(2)        For bus, railroad, pullman, or other public conveyance, actual fare;

(3)        For subsistence, the actual amount expended for room, meals, and reasonable gratuities, not to exceed a total of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day when traveling in or out of the State: Provided, that subject to the approval of the Director of the Budget, members who attend meetings of boards, commissions and committees held in their home communities shall be allowed subsistence reimbursement for meals on the days they attend such meetings;

(4)        For convention registration fees, the actual amount expended, as shown by receipt."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on and after July 1, 1971.

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