NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION
CHAPTER 833
HOUSE BILL 10
AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT OPERATIONS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENTS, BUREAUS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AGENCIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
GENERAL FUND
Section 1. Appropriations from the General Fund of the State for the maintenance of the State departments, bureaus, institutions, and for other purposes as enumerated are hereby made for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1962, and June 30, 1963, respectively, according to the following schedule:
I. GENERAL GOVERNMENT
1961‑62 1962‑63
General Assembly.................................................................... $ $ 955,065
Supreme Court........................................................................ 312,098 312,348
Superior Courts....................................................................... 962,500 962,500
Judicial Council........................................................................ 4,800 4,800
The Governor's Office............................................................. 169,044 169,171
The Lieutenant Governor......................................................... 3,100 3,100
Department of Administration................................................... 1,856,367 1,590,682
Department of Personnel.......................................................... 165,183 168,842
Merit System Council.............................................................. 48,025 48,663
Secretary of State.................................................................... 98,536 101,781
State Auditor........................................................................... 245,522 249,175
State Treasurer:
1. State Treasurer............................................................ 159,256 162,655
2. Local Government Commission.................................... 81,766 82,633
Department of Justice:
1. Attorney General......................................................... 157,069 160,058
2. Bureau of Investigation................................................. 387,947 362,858
3. General Statutes Commission....................................... 7,630 7,700
Department of Revenue........................................................... 4,291,539 4,394,805
Department of Tax Research.................................................... 70,331 76,970
Tax Review Board................................................................... 4,992 5,068
State Board of Elections.......................................................... 24,232 25,132
Contingency and Emergency:
1. To provide for contingency and emergency
expenditures for any purpose authorized by
law for which no specific appropriation is
made hereunder, or for which inadvertently
an insufficient appropriation has been made
under this Section. Allotments to be made
from this appropriation under the provisions
of G.S. 143‑12, or such other Statute as
may be applicable........................................................ 1,750,000 1,750,000
Salary Adjustments of State General Fund
Employees (Subject to Personnel Act) to
continue new salary schedules.................................................. 1,147,821 1,702,748
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Subtotal — General Government....................................... 11,947,758 13,296,754
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II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION
1961‑62 1962‑63
The Adjutant General:
1. Adjutant General's Office............................................. $ 493,450 $ 495,796
2. Armory Commission.................................................... 41,000 23,500
State Civil Air Patrol................................................................ 15,211 15,319
State Civil Defense Agency...................................................... 102,612 107,095
Department of Motor Vehicles:
1. Automobile Drivers' Financial
Responsibility Program................................................ 291,665 281,234
Utilities Commission................................................................. 274,383 278,107
Insurance Department:
1. Insurance Department.................................................. 383,947 387,661
2. State Property Fire Insurance....................................... 250,000 250,000
3. Firemen's Relief........................................................... 1,750 1,750
4. Building Code Council................................................. 7,092 7,200
Department of Labor............................................................... 507,283 512,766
Industrial Commission.............................................................. 299,700 295,722
State Board of Alcoholic Control............................................. 459,876 463,028
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Subtotal — Public Safety and Regulation............................ 3,127,969 3,119,178
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III. CORRECTION
1961‑62 1962‑63
Board of Correction and Training:
1. General Administration................................................. $ 66,476 $ 68,448
2. Stonewall Jackson Training School............................... 445,008 447,695
3. State Home and Industrial School
for Girls — Samarcand Manor..................................... 314,943 335,367
4. Morrison Training School............................................. 466,186 470,278
5. Eastern Carolina Training School.................................. 242,884 265,129
6. State Training School for Girls — Dobbs
Farm........................................................................... 211,156 235,412
7. Leonard Training School.............................................. 313,924 344,579
8. Juvenile Evaluation and Treatment
Center......................................................................... 224,884 230,835
Fugitives from Justice............................................................... 6,500 6,500
Prison Department................................................................... 6,094,700 6,738,539
Probation Commission............................................................. 545,361 553,177
Board of Paroles..................................................................... 385,628 394,330
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Subtotal — Correction...................................................... 9,317,650 10,090,289
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IV. PUBLIC WELFARE
1961‑62 1962‑63
Department of Public Welfare.................................................. $ 11,233,330 $ 11,971,410
State Commission for the Blind................................................ 989,917 1,019,355
Veterans Commission:
1. Veterans Commission.................................................. 337,925 343,185
2. County Service Officers............................................... 90,000 90,000
Confederate Women's Home................................................... 56,370 57,460
Oxford Orphanage.................................................................. 62,250 62,250
Junior Order Orphanage.......................................................... 55,000 55,000
Oxford Colored Orphanage..................................................... 86,000 86,000
Odd Fellows Home................................................................. 11,000 11,000
Pythian Home.......................................................................... 11,000 11,000
Alexander Schools, Inc............................................................ 40,000 40,000
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Subtotal — Public Welfare................................................ 12,972,792 13,746,660
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V. EDUCATION
1961‑62 1962‑63
Department of Public Instruction.............................................. $ 644,975 $ 649,291
State Board of Education:
1. Nine Months School Fund........................................... 211,820,998 215,872,348
2. State Board of Education............................................. 376,370 370,920
3. Vocational Education................................................... 7,577,266 7,906,573
4. Purchase of Free Textbooks........................................ 3,182,184 2,180,091
5. Vocational Textile School............................................ 93,546 90,838
6. Purchase of School Buses............................................ 2,579,428 2,579,428
7. Administration of State School Plant Construction,
Improvement, and Repair Fund.................................... 106,799 107,801
8. Vocational Rehabilitation.............................................. 806,496 856,823
9. Vocational Education — Industrial Education
Centers — Equipment................................................. 763,200
10. Instruction and Training for Trainable Mentally
Handicapped Children................................................. 303,040 348,390
11. National Defense Education Program........................... 137,633 135,045
12. Program of Education by Television............................. 85,050 85,050
13. Curriculum Study and Research................................... 112,500 112,500
14. Professional Improvement of Teachers......................... 150,000 150,000
State Board of Higher Education.............................................. 78,352 79,036
University of North Carolina (Consolidated):
1. General Administration................................................. 207,063 207,976
2. Long Range Planning Program..................................... 35,216 35,432
3. University of North Carolina:
a. University of North Carolina.................................. 6,008,011 6,0l0,422
b. Research Computation Center............................... 76,404 77,292
c. Division of Health Affairs....................................... 2,916,812 3,028,904
4. State College of Agriculture and Engineering................. 6,039,124 5,966,416
5. The Woman's College.................................................. 2,084,374 2,086,316
East Carolina College.............................................................. 2,138,594 2,183,506
The Agricultural and Technical College..................................... 1,554,823 1,561,108
Western Carolina College........................................................ 937,450 904,663
Appalachian State Teachers College........................................ 1,206,541 1,221,330
Pembroke State College.......................................................... 237,042 240,366
Winston‑Salem Teachers College............................................. 539,513 536,600
Elizabeth City State Teachers College...................................... 440,960 431,548
Fayetteville State Teachers College.......................................... 431,464 417,979
North Carolina College at Durham........................................... 1,344,137 1,347,704
North Carolina School for the Deaf.......................................... 1,041,835 1,018,583
State School for the Blind and the Deaf.................................... 967,812 1,032,001
Student Loan Funds:
1. Medical Care Commission — Medical
Education.................................................................... 175,000 175,000
2. State Board of Education — Teacher
Education.................................................................... 487,500 540,000
Station WUNC‑TV:
1. University of North Carolina — General
Administration — WUNC‑TV..................................... 75,696 67,771
2. University of North Carolina — Station
WUNC‑TV................................................................ 63,333 64,233
3. State College — Station WUNC‑TV........................... 62,073 62,483
4. The Woman's College — Station WUNC‑TV............. 42,386 43,301
Department of Archives and History......................................... 436,850 447,241
State Library:
1. Library........................................................................ 144,276 145,353
2. State Aid to Public Libraries........................................ 463,602 464,584
State Art Society..................................................................... 158,336 158,833
North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc.................................... 60,000 60,000
Old Salem, Inc........................................................................ 35,000 35,000
Highlands Biological Station, Inc.............................................. 3,750 3,750
Department of Administration:
1. Community Colleges.................................................... 409,059 462,007
2. Reserve for Higher Education
Examination Program................................................... 25,000 25,000
3. Reserve for Increased College Enrollment.................... 961,985 1,624,582
4. Reserve for Higher Education — Support
of Summer Schools...................................................... 480,000 480,000
5. Reserve for Higher Education — To
Replace Contributions by Auxiliary
Services to Academic Expense.................................... 275,000 275,000
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Subtotal — Education........................................................ 261,383,858 264,966,418
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VII. NON‑HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION
1961‑62 1962‑63
State Ports Authority............................................................... $ 199,527 $ 199,227
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VIII. HEALTH AND HOSPITALS
1961‑62 1962‑63
State Board of Health.............................................................. $ 3,580,519 $ 3,665,060
Medical Care Commission:
1. Medical Care Commission — Administration............... 96,430 97,970
2. Indigent Care............................................................... -0- -0-
University of North Carolina:
1. Memorial Hospital — Psychiatric Center...................... 598,985 615,098
2. Memorial Hospital....................................................... 1,581,514 1,683,274
Hospitals Board of Control:
1. General Administration................................................. 292,896 294,104
2. Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program.................................. 200,273 199,462
3. Dorothea Dix Hospital................................................. 3,935,472 4,002,473
4. Broughton Hospital...................................................... 3,865,478 3,932,487
5. Western Carolina School............................................. 130,000 765,000
6. Cherry Hospital........................................................... 3,429,847 3,773,316
7. O'Berry School........................................................... 1,318,440 1,529,192
8. Umstead Hospital........................................................ 2,976,525 2,999,051
9. Murdoch School.......................................................... 2,395,329 2,494,415
10. Caswell School............................................................ 2,471,677 2,521,304
North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital......................................... 515,358 508,522
North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital.................................... 211,766 215,263
North Carolina Sanatorium System:
1. General Administration................................................. 43,434 43,562
2. North Carolina Sanatorium.......................................... 1,232,282 1,207,360
3. Western North Carolina Sanatorium............................. 1,086,296 1,103,697
4. Eastern North Carolina Sanatorium.............................. 1,382,887 1,402,529
5. Gravely Sanatorium..................................................... 490,589 497,049
Asheville Orthopedic Hospital.................................................. 75,000 75,000
North Carolina Cancer Institute, Inc......................................... 26,000 26,000
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Subtotal — Health and Hospitals....................................... 31,936,997 33,651,188
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IX. NATURAL RESOURCES AND RECREATION
1961‑62 1962‑63
Department of Conservation and Development:
1. Department of Conservation and
Development............................................................... $ 3,062,339 $ 2,838,038
2. Division of Commercial Fisheries.................................. 218,852 161,156
3. Division of Commercial Fisheries —
Shellfish Division.......................................................... 108,378 108,806
4. State Planning Program................................................ 80,934 81,983
5. Kerr Reservoir Development Commission —
Nutbush Conservation Area......................................... 29,296 29,804
Department of Water Resources.............................................. 536,369 541,553
North Carolina National Park, Parkway and
Forests Development Commission........................................... 7,783 8,142
University of North Carolina — Institute of
Fisheries Research................................................................... 88,199 88,556
State College — Industrial Extension Service........................... 100,314 100,518
Rural Electrification Authority................................................... 69,184 69,450
North Carolina Recreation Commission.................................... 92,667 94,901
Bennett Memorial — Durham, N.C......................................... 50 50
Confederate Museum — Richmond, Va................................... 200 200
Confederate Cemetery — Raleigh, N.C................................... 350 350
Department of Archives and History — Tryon
Palace Commission.................................................................. 74,039 75,139
Garden Clubs of North Carolina, Inc. — The
Elizabethan Garden.................................................................. 4,300 4,300
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Subtotal — Natural Resources and Recreation................... 4,473,254 4,202,946
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X. AGRICULTURE
1961‑62 1962‑63
Department of Agriculture — Contribution from
General Fund........................................................................... $ 2,076,699 $ 2,234,290
Agricultural Experiment Station — State College...................... 2,369,403 2,382,738
Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service —
State College........................................................................... 2,781,406 2,786,706
State Soil Conservation Committee.......................................... 134,639 131,913
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Subtotal Agriculture........................................................... 7,362,147 7,535,647
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XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS
1961‑62 1962‑63
Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System:
1. Administration............................................................. $ 284,055 $ 288,256
2. State Contributions...................................................... 24,631,802 25,517,150
3. Teachers and State Employees Who Had
Attained Age 65 at August 1, 1959.............................. 225,400 212,800
Law Enforcement Officers' Benefit and Retirement
Fund — Contribution from General Fund................................. 14,778 15,174
North Carolina Firemen's Pension Fund................................... 251,885 251,951
Pensions — Confederate Widows........................................... 126,126 126,126
Pensions — Widows of Governors.......................................... 12,000 12,000
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Subtotal — Retirement and Pensions.................................. 25,546,046 26,423,457
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XIII. DEBT SERVICE
1961‑62 1962‑63
Interest on Bonds.................................................................... $ 3,765,919 $ 4,592,281
Redemption of Bonds.............................................................. 7,230,000 8,943,000
Interest on Tax Anticipation Notes........................................... 100,000 100,000
Landscrip Fund....................................................................... 7,500 7,500
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Subtotal — Debt Service................................................... 11,103,419 13,641,781
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XIV. SALARY INCREASES
1961‑62 1962‑63
Salary Increases for Employees Subject to the
Personnel Act.......................................................................... $ 2,906,762 $ 2,922,785
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XV. SALARY ADJUSTMENT FUND
1961‑62 1962‑63
Salary Adjustment Fund for Employees Subject to the
State Personnel Act................................................................. 200,000 200,000
TOTAL — GENERAL FUND............................................... $ 382,478,179 $ 393,996,330
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HIGHWAY FUND
Sec. 2. Appropriations from the Highway Fund of the State for the expense of collecting revenues, for the service of the highway debt, and for the maintenance of the highway activities, are hereby made for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1962, and June 30, 1963, respectively, according to the following schedule:
I. GENERAL GOVERNMENT
1961‑62 1962‑63
Salary Adjustments of State Highway Fund Employees
(Subject to Personnel Act) to Continue New Salary
Schedules................................................................................ $ 1,052,179 $ 1,597,252
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II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION
1961‑62 1962‑63
Department of Motor Vehicles................................................. $ 9,855,916 $ 9,968,935
Transportation Inspection (to Utilities Commission)................... 151,394 154,013
Subtotal — Public Safety and Regulation............................ 10,007,310 10,122,948
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III. CORRECTION
1961‑62 1962‑63
Prison Department................................................................... -0- -0-
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VI. HIGHWAYS
1961‑62 1962‑63
State Highway Commission:
1. Merit Salary Increments............................................... $ 866,323 $ 1,372,354
2. Reserve for Contingencies............................................ 500,000 500,000
3. General Administration................................................. 1,384,552 1,373,607
4. Engineering Administration and Supervision.................. 4,313,297 4,238,730
5. State Maintenance and Construction:
a. Primary System..................................................... 19,611,917 20,410,049
b. Secondary System................................................. 49,242,370 52,376,858
c. Urban System........................................................ 3,135,654 3,167,011
d. Public Service Roads............................................. 510,000 520,000
6. State Funds to Match Federal Aid Construction........... 24,925,000 25,925,000
7. State Aid to Municipalities........................................... 7,217,000 7,506,300
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Subtotal — Highways........................................................ 111,706,113 117,389,909
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XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS
1961‑62 1962‑63
Contribution to Retirement System........................................... 2,555,149 2,716,136
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XIII. DEBT SERVICE
Interest on and Redemption of Highway Bonds........................ 12,316,750 12,312,063
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XIV. SALARY INCREASES
1961‑62 1962‑63
Salary Increases for Highway Fund Employees
Subject to the State Personnel Act........................................... 2,059,376 2,048,223
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TOTAL — HIGHWAY FUND........................................... $ 139,696,877 $ 146,186,531
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(Transfers and changes may be made in the Highway Fund from Merit Salary Increments, Reserve for Contingencies, and Salary Increases and Adjustments to other operating appropriations in the Highway Fund under authorization by the Director of the Budget. Transfers and changes may be made to and/or from Title VI‑5(a), (b), (c), and (d) under authorization by the Director of the Budget).
In the event that the revenues accruing to the Highway Fund exceed the amount of one hundred forty‑five million ninety‑three thousand dollars($145,093,000.00) for the fiscal year 1961‑62 and the amount of one hundred fifty million four hundred ninety‑five thousand dollars ($150,495, 000.00) for the fiscal year 1962‑63 such excesses may be allocated by the Director of the Budget, with the approval of the Advisory Budget Commission, to increase the appropriations under Title VI‑5(b) for the construction of secondary roads.
Sec. 2.1. Section 12 of Chapter 349 of the Session Laws of 1957 is hereby expressly repealed.
Sec. 2.2. G.S. 147‑69.1 is hereby amended by striking out the period after the words "State's General Fund" at the end of the first paragraph, inserting a semicolon in lieu thereof, and adding the following words: "provided, however, that on and after July 1, 1961, all interest accruing on the monthly balance of the Highway Fund of the State shall be paid to the State Highway Fund."
AGRICULTURE FUND
Sec. 3. Appropriations from the Agriculture Fund of the State for maintenance of agricultural activities are hereby made for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1962, and June 30, 1963, respectively, according to the following schedule:
1961‑62 1962‑63
1. Department of Agriculture............................................ $ 1,414,013 $ 1,392,335
2. State Fair (The State Fair may be operated within
its own receipts in the discretion of the State
Board of Agriculture).
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WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION
Sec. 4. Notwithstanding any laws or clauses of laws pertaining to the Wildlife Resources Commission, there is hereby appropriated out of funds available to the Wildlife Resources Commission the following sums for the biennium 1961‑63, subject to expenditure under the provisions of the Executive Budget Act, G.S. 143‑1:
1961‑62 1962‑63
Wildlife Resources Commission............................................ $ 2,711,703 $ 2,525,590
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Sec. 4.1. There is hereby appropriated out of funds available in the various Special Funds sufficient amounts to carry on required activities included under each fund's operations subject to provisions of the Executive Budget Act, Chapter 143, Article 1, General Statutes of North Carolina.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 5. Chapter 138 of the General Statutes is amended by the addition thereto of a new Section, which shall be designated "§ 138‑5", and shall read as follows:
"§ 138‑5. Per diem and allowances of State boards, etc.
"(a) Members of State boards, commissions, and committees which operate from funds deposited with the State Treasurer shall be compensated for their services at the following rates:
"(1) Advisory Budget Commission, seven dollars ($7.00) per diem: Provided, that the rate during the period from July 1 through December 31 of each even-numbered year shall be twenty‑five dollars ($25.00) per diem;
"(2) All other boards, commissions and committees, except those boards, commissions, and committees the members of which are now serving without compensation, seven dollars ($7.00) per diem.
"(b) Members of State boards, commissions, and committees shall be allowed travel expenses at the following rates:
"(1) For transportation by privately-owned automobile, seven cents (7¢) per mile of travel and the actual cost of tolls paid;
"(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 twelve dollars ($12.00) per day when traveling in State or a total of fourteen dollars ($14.00) when traveling out of 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, not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) per convention.
"(c) The schedules of per diem, subsistence, and travel allowances established in this Section shall apply to members of all State boards, commissions, and committees which operate from funds deposited with the State Treasurer, excluding those boards, commissions and committees the members of which are now serving without compensation; and all special statutory provisions relating to per diem, subsistence, and travel allowances are hereby amended to conform to this Section.
"(d) Out‑of‑State travel on official business by members of State boards, commissions, and committees which operate from funds deposited with the State Treasurer shall be reimbursed only upon authorization obtained in the manner prescribed by the Director of the Budget."
Sec. 6. Chapter 138 of the General Statutes is amended by the addition thereto of a new Section, which shall be designated "§ 138‑6", and shall read as follows:
"§ 138‑6. Travel allowances of State officers and employees.
"(a) Travel on official business by the officers and employees of State departments, institutions, and agencies which operate from funds deposited with the State Treasurer shall be reimbursed at the following rates:
"(1) For transportation by privately‑owned automobile, seven cents (7¢) per mile of travel and the actual cost of tolls paid;
"(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 ten dollars ($10.00) per day when traveling in State or a total of fourteen dollars ($14.00) per day when traveling out of State;
"(4) For convention registration fees, not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) per convention.
"(b) Out‑of‑State travel on official business by the officers and employees of State departments, institutions, and agencies which operate from funds deposited with the State Treasurer shall be reimbursed only upon authorization obtained in the manner prescribed by the Director of the Budget."
Sec. 6.1. Chapter 138 of the General Statutes is amended by the addition thereto of a new Section, which shall be designated as Sec. 138‑7, and shall read as follows:
"Sec 138‑7. Exceptions to G.S. 138‑5 and G.S. 138‑6. The Director of the Budget, with the approval of the Advisory Budget Commission, shall establish and publish uniform standards and criteria under which actual expenses in excess of the ten dollars ($10.00) for in‑State travel, fourteen dollars ($14.00) for out‑of‑State travel, and the ten dollar ($10.00) limit on convention registration, prescribed in G.S. 138‑5 and G.S. 138‑6, may be authorized for extraordinary charges for hotel, meals, and registration, whenever such charges are the result of required official business. No expenditures in excess of the maximum amounts set forth in G.S. 138‑5 and G.S. 138‑6 shall be reimbursed unless the head of the State department, agency or institution involved has secured the approval of the Director of the Budget prior to the making of such expenditures."
Sec. 6.2. G.S. 20‑185, as the same appears in the 1959 Supplement to the General Statutes, is amended by striking out Subsection (g) and Subsection (h). Subsistence allowances heretofore authorized by the said statutory provisions affecting the pay of members of the State Highway Patrol and Driver Licenses Examiners are abolished and compensating increases are made in lieu thereof, in the salaries of such personnel under the terms of this Appropriations Act.
Sec. 7. All insurance and all official, fidelity, and surety bonds authorized for the several departments, institutions, and agencies shall be effected and placed by the Insurance Department, and the cost of such placement shall be paid by the department, institution, or agency involved upon bills rendered to and approved by the Insurance Commissioner.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 8. The appropriation made out of the General Fund for the Prison Department includes funds to be transferred or paid to the Dorothea Dix Hospital at Raleigh and Cherry Hospital at Goldsboro for care, custody, and treatment of the criminally insane prisoners, and to the North Carolina Sanatorium for care, custody, and treatment of prisoners who have tuberculosis; with the amount of funds to be determined as follows: At the beginning of each month the Dorothea Dix Hospital at Raleigh, the Cherry Hospital at Goldsboro, and North Carolina Sanatorium shall render to the Prison Department a bill, on the basis of the per capita cost per day for the preceding fiscal year, as may be determined by the Director of the Budget, for the care, custody, and treatment, during the preceding month, of criminally insane prisoners and prisoners who have tuberculosis and who have been transferred from the Prison System to said institutions, and the Prison Department shall pay such bills monthly.
Sec. 9. Appropriations made to the North Carolina School for the Deaf and to the State School for the Blind and the Deaf under Section 1 of this Act include provisions for the cost of clothing and transportation for indigent pupils. The institutions shall be reimbursed for these items by the counties liable therefor under the provisions of G.S. 116‑118.
Sec. 9.1. From the funds appropriated to the State institutions of higher education in Section 1 of this Act and institutional receipts accruing to said institutions, the respective State institutions of higher education are hereby directed to pay to student help employed to perform work in said institutions a rate of pay which shall not be less in any case than seventy‑five cents (75¢) per hour of work performed.
Sec. 9.2. Upon request from the State Board of Education, the Director of the Budget, with the approval of the Advisory Budget Commission, is authorized to make transfers from any funds appropriated to the State Board of Education under Section 1 of this Act for the purpose of supplementing the appropriation therein provided for "Curriculum Study and Research", provided the appropriation for "Curriculum Study and Research" is found by the State Board of Education to be inadequate and funds are found to be available for transfer in any of the other appropriations made herein to said Board.
Sec. 10. Appropriations made to the Oxford Colored Orphanage under Section 1 of this Act shall be available only if and when the expenditures shall be recommended by the trustees of the institution appointed by the Governor of the State, and the expenditures shall be under the supervision of said trustees.
Sec. 10.1. Annual receipts collected by the institutions operating under the control of the Hospitals Board of Control which exceed the authorized budgeted amounts for each such institution shall be reserved for the use of the Hospitals Board of Control for the purpose of developing research programs in the area of mental illness. Provided, however, that the amounts reserved shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00).
Sec. 10.2. Out of the appropriations made in Section 1 of this Act to the Hospitals Board of Control, Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program, a sum not in excess of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) per year shall be reserved for the specific purpose of employing a full-time chaplain.
Sec. 11. Appropriations made in Section 1 of this Act to the Department of Public Welfare under Title IV for Old Age Assistance and for Aid to Dependent Children are declared to be for such sums as, when added to the unexpended balances remaining at the end of the biennium 1959‑61 in the appropriation for the said purposes for that biennium, shall be equal to the sum of three million six hundred thirty-seven thousand dollars ($3,637,000.00) for the fiscal year 1961‑62 and three million eight hundred fifty thousand dollars ($3,850,000.00) for the fiscal year 1962‑63 for Old Age Assistance, and three million fifty‑six thousand dollars ($3,056,000.00) for the fiscal year 1961‑62 and three million two hundred eighty‑two thousand dollars ($3,282,000.00) for the fiscal year 1962‑63 for Aid to Dependent Children.
Sec. 12. The Director of the Budget shall require that the Highway Fund, the Agriculture Fund, other special funds employing personnel, and other operations employing personnel and which are designated by resolution of the Governor and Advisory Budget Commission as self-supporting operations shall budget as a line item object of expenditure sufficient funds to pay their employer proportion of contributions to the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System as required by the Act creating said System; provided, however, that the Special Fund entitled University of North Carolina — University Enterprises — (Special Fund) shall be exempt from the foregoing requirement until July 1, 1963.
With the foregoing exception only, no part of the appropriation made in Section 1 of this Act to the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System as "contributions" under Title XII‑2 shall be used to supply the State's or employer's contribution for Retirement System purposes or Social Security purposes with respect to the compensation of any State employee (1) whose compensation is paid out of receipts of any State institution or agency (other than gifts, including foundation funds), which receipts are deposited in institutional funds for the specific purpose of paying the compensation of such employee, or (2) who performs his duties for an operation or activity designated by the Director of the Budget as a self‑supporting operation or activity, or (3) who performs his duties for an operation or activity not directly supported by an appropriation from the State General Fund. In those instances in which an employee's salary is paid in part from the General Fund or from gifts (including foundations) and in part from receipts of the State institution or agency (other than gifts, including foundation funds), which receipts are deposited in institutional funds for the specific purpose of paying part of the compensation of such State employee, the appropriation described above shall be used to pay a portion of the employer's contribution for retirement and social security equal to that proportion of the employee's total salary paid from the General Fund or from gifts (including foundations), and the remainder of the employer's contribution shall be paid from the same source or sources as supply the remainder of such employee's salary. It is the intent and purpose of this Act that, when Retirement System or Social Security matching funds are required to be made on behalf of the State as an employer in the situations described above in this paragraph, such matching funds to the extent necessary shall be paid out of the funds of the institutions or operation or activity described above in this paragraph. Any question as to the applicability of this paragraph shall be resolved by the Director of the Budget and the Advisory Budget Commission.
Sec. 13. General Statutes 97‑100(j) is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following sentence:
"Receipts collected under this subsection shall be deposited to the credit of the State Treasurer as General Fund Revenue."
Sec. 14. G.S. 130‑11(5) is amended by the addition thereto of the following sentences:
"The industrial hygiene unit of the State Board of Health shall, under the direction and supervision of the Industrial Commission, carry out all of the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act with respect to occupational disease work, and the State Board of Health shall file with the Industrial Commission sufficient reports to enable it to carry out the provisions of the occupational disease law. After all occupational disease work required by the Industrial Commission has been completed, the State Board of Health may use the services of the industrial hygiene unit for such other work as the Board may deem advisable."
Sec. 15. Chapter 115 of the General Statutes is amended by the insertion therein, immediately following Article 21, of a new Article which shall be designated "Article 21 A", and which shall read as follows:
"ARTICLE 21A
"CHILD HEALTH PROGRAM
"§ 115‑179.1. Child Health Program expenditures. Not less than ninety per cent (90%) of the expenditures from the appropriation for each year to the State Board of Education under the Nine Months School Fund for the Child Health Program shall be expended through the Child Health Program of the State Board of Education for the diagnosis and correction of chronic, remediable physical defects of public school children, in the following manner:
"(1) Upon discovery of a chronic, remediable defect, if it appears that the expenditure of school health funds will be required to provide spectacles, prosthesis, or other correction, the appropriate school official shall forthwith notify the county superintendent of public welfare of the county in which the child resides. Thereupon, the superintendent of public welfare shall make such investigation as necessary and only upon his certification of financial need shall funds be expended for this purpose: Provided, that in cases of minor dental defects involving expenditures not in excess of ten dollars ($10.00), school and health department personnel may determine financial need.
"(2) Child Health Program funds as defined in this Section shall be expended in accordance with a uniform State‑wide schedule of fees and costs, and only to provide spectacles, prosthesis, and other correction of chronic, remediable defects of public school children: Provided, that an amount not in excess of ten percent (10%) of the appropriation for this program for each year may be expended for case finding, health education, and intensive follow‑up services."
Sec. 16. G.S. 115‑188 is amended by the addition thereto of a new subsection, which shall be designated "(h)", and shall read as follows:
"(h) Appropriations made in the biennial Budget Appropriation Act for the purchase of public school buses shall be permanent appropriations, and unexpended portions of those appropriations shall not revert to the General Fund at the end of the biennium for which appropriated. Any unexpended portion of those appropriations shall at the end of each fiscal year be transferred to a reserve account and shall be held, together with any other funds appropriated for the purpose, for the purchase of public school buses."
Sec. 16.1. G.S. 116‑143 is amended by striking out the last sentence of the first paragraph. G.S. 116‑143 is amended further by striking out the comma which now follows the word "abolished" in the last sentence of said Statute, and inserting a period in lieu thereof and by striking out the words which follow said comma as the Statute is at present and inserting in lieu thereof the following sentences:
"Inasmuch as the giving of tuition and fee waivers, or especially reduced rates, represent in effect a variety of scholarship award, the said practice is hereby prohibited except where expressly authorized by Statute; and, furthermore, it is hereby directed and required that all budgeted funds expended for scholarships of any type must be clearly identified in budget reports.
"Where an individual serves as a faculty member on a part‑time basis and is enrolled at the same time as a part‑time student, a special tuition rate not lower than the North Carolina resident rate may be granted in the discretion of the board of trustees of the institution."
Sec. 17. G.S. 113‑54 is amended by the addition thereto of the following sentence: "The funds appropriated to the Department of Conservation and Development in the biennial Budget Appropriation Act for forest fire prevention and control shall not be expended in a county unless that county shall contribute at least twenty‑five per cent (25%) of the total cost of the forest fire prevention program."
Sec. 17.1. Subject to a recommendation by the Advisory Budget Commission, funds not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for each year of the biennium 1961‑63 may be allotted out of the Contingency and Emergency Appropriation for use by the State Department of Agriculture, North Carolina Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, for a Witch Weed Control Program.
Sec. 18. Subject to rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Administration and approved by the Director of the Budget any State department, institution, commission, or other agency of the State is hereby authorized to expend, from appropriations made in this Act, funds to pay the expenses of transporting the household goods and furniture of an employee and members of his household when such employee is directed by the employing agency to transfer from one location to another.
Sec. 19. The appropriations made to the Department of Administration for the purpose of providing grants‑in‑aid toward maintenance and operation of community colleges at Charlotte, Asheville, Elizabeth City, and Wilmington, or any other community college or colleges which may become eligible for grants under the provisions of G.S. 116‑3, shall constitute a lump sum from which payments shall be made to each community college upon a certification by the North Carolina Board of Higher Education of the sum to which each community college has become entitled as a result of allowing four dollars ($4.00) per student quarter hour of instruction actually delivered to North Carolina residents and courses approved for such State aid by the said Board of Higher Education; and the Governor and Council of State may allot additional money out of the Contingency and Emergency Fund in case the regular appropriations herein made for this purpose prove to be inadequate.
Sec. 20. The appropriation made to the Department of Administration for admissions testing programs shall be used to reimburse any State institution of higher education for credits against tuition granted to entering students who have taken and paid for the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board as administered by the Educational Testing Service on a preadmission basis, and/or to any State institution of higher education which elects to have these tests given to freshmen on a post‑admission basis for the purpose of assessing the relative scores of such freshmen with respect to national medium scores; and the Governor and the Council of State may allot additional money out of the Contingency and Emergency Fund in case the appropriations made in Section 1 of this Act for this purpose prove to be inadequate.
Sec. 21. For the biennium 1961‑63 there shall, from time to time, be allocated to the State Board of Education from the Contingency and Emergency Fund such amounts as are necessary for education expense grants in accordance with G.S. 115‑35, and such amounts as are necessary for the administration of said Article.
Sec. 22. If the Federal Government requires State participation in the Wilmington Harbor Project, the Governor and Council of State are authorized to allocate not in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) in order to comply with Federal requirements.
SALARIES AND WAGES
Sec. 23. The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to transfer from the appropriations made in Sections 1 and 2 of this Act for salary adjustments of State employees subject to the Personnel Act, sums which may be required to adjust salaries as approved by the State Personnel Council and the Director of the Budget.
The appropriations included in Sections 1 and 2 of this Act for salary increases of State employees subject to the State Personnel Act shall be transferred by the Director of the Budget to departments, institutions and agencies as may be required to increase salaries effective July 1, 1961, for full‑time, permanent employees in accordance with the following provisions: For granting a one‑step increment to each permanent, full‑time employee subject to the provisions of the State Personnel Act, according to the State Personnel Department increment schedule in effect as of June 30, 1961.
The provisions of this Section may be applied to increase salaries paid out of special funds or from sources other than tax revenues; provided, the necessary funds are made available from operations or from sponsoring agents. The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to allocate out of special operating funds, under which personnel is employed, sufficient funds to conform with the provisions of this Section; provided, funds are available or made available by the sponsoring agents.
The increase provided by this Section shall not apply to positions exempt from partially from the General Fund and partially from sources other than the General Fund shall receive a salary increase from the General Fund appropriation only in proportion to the extent that his salary is paid from the General Fund.
The salary increases for employees whose salaries are paid from receipts received from self‑supporting activities shall be contingent upon availability of funds out of receipts which shall be determined by the Director of the Budget.
The salary increases shall not affect the status of eligibility for automatic and/or merit salary increments for which the employee may be eligible for the fiscal years 1961‑63 notwithstanding the granting of the legislative salary increase.
The salary ranges for all employees shall be increased, so far as the maximum is concerned, by an amount equal to one increment, to the end that, even after the salary increase provided for in this Act is made, every employee will continue to have the same relative position with respect to salary increase and future increments as he would have had if the salary increases provided by this Act had not been made.
The salary increase provided in this Section shall not apply to persons separated from State service due to resignation, dismissal, reduction in force, death, retirement, or leave without pay, whose last work day is prior to July 1, 1961.
Sec. 23.1. G.S. 143‑46 is amended by inserting before the words "Business Managers," in the first sentence thereof, the words and punctuation following:
"employees of the State Farmers' Market at Raleigh;".
EFFECTIVE
Sec. 24. The provisions of the Executive Budget Act, G.S. 143‑1, are re‑enacted and shall remain in full force and effect, and are incorporated in this Act by reference.
Sec. 25. If any Section or provision of this Act be declared unconstitutional or invalid by the courts, the same shall not affect the validity of the Act as a whole or any part other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.
Sec. 26. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 27. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1961.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of June, 1961.