NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 881

HOUSE BILL 543

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO TRAVEL AND SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCE OF STATE EMPLOYEES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 138-6(a) as the same appears in the 1969 Cumulative Supplement to the 1964 Replacement Volume 3C, is hereby amended by striking out the words and figures "nine cents (9¢)" in line one of subdivision (1) thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "ten cents (10¢)"; and by striking out the words and figures "fifteen dollars ($15.00)" in line two of subdivision (3) thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "seventeen dollars and fifty cents($17.50)"; and by striking out the words and figures "eighteen dollars ($18.00)" in line three of subdivision (3) thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "twenty-five dollars ($25.00)", it being the intent and purpose of this section, relating to travel allowances of State officers and employees, to increase the mileage allowance for use of privately-owned automobiles from nine cents (9¢) to ten cents(10¢) per mile, to increase the in-State subsistence allowance provided in said G.S. 138-6 from fifteen dollars ($15.00) to seventeen dollars and fifty cents ($17.50) per day, and the out-of-State subsistence allowance from eighteen dollars ($18.00) to twenty- five dollars ($25.00) per day.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 138-6, Subsection (a)(4) is amended by striking from line one the words and figures "ten dollars ($10.00)" and substituting in lieu thereof the words and figures "fifteen dollars ($15.00)".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 138-7, as the same appears in the 1969 Cumulative Supplement to the 1964 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting line four thereof to read, "the seventeen dollars and fifty cents ($17.50) for in-State travel, twenty‑five dollars ($25.00) for out-of-State", it being the intent and purpose of this section to conform G.S. 138-7 with the amendments herein made to G.S. 138-6.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of July, 1971.