NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 391
HOUSE BILL 446

AN ACT TO REWRITE ARTICLE II, SECTION 28, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article II of the Constitution of North Carolina is amended by rewriting Section 28 thereof to read as follows:
"Sec. 28.  Compensation of Members and Officers of the General Assembly. The members and officers of the General Assembly shall receive for their services a compensation to be established by the General Assembly. An increase in the compensation of members shall become effective at the beginning of the next regular Session of the General Assembly."
Sec. 2.  The amendment set out in Section 1 of this Act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the State at the next general election. That election shall be conducted under the laws then governing general elections in this State.
Sec. 3.  At that election, the qualified voters favoring the amendment set out in Section 1 of this Act shall vote ballots on which shall be printed or written the words "FOR constitutional amendment establishing procedure for fixing compensation of members and officers of the General Assembly, and denying benefit of any increase in compensation to members of Session which enacts it," and those voters opposed shall vote ballots on which shall be printed or written the words: "AGAINST constitutional amendment establishing procedure for fixing compensation of members and officers of the General Assembly, and denying benefit of any increase in compensation to members of Session which enacts it."
Sec. 4.  If a majority of the votes cast thereon be in favor of the amendment set out in Section 1 of this Act, the Governor shall certify that amendment under the Great Seal of the State to the Secretary of State, who shall enroll that amendment so certified among the permanent records of his office, and the amendment shall become effective upon that certification.
Sec. 5.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
Sec. 6.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of May, 1967.