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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

      Subtotal — General Government.......................................          11,947,758            13,296,754

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

      Subtotal — Public Safety and Regulation............................            3,127,969              3,119,178

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

      Subtotal — Correction......................................................            9,317,650            10,090,289

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                   _____________   ____________

      Subtotal — Public Welfare................................................          12,972,792            13,746,660

                                                                                                   _____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

      Subtotal — Education........................................................        261,383,858          264,966,418

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

VII. NON‑HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION

                                                                                                        1961‑62                    1962‑63

State Ports Authority...............................................................       $      199,527         $      199,227

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

      Subtotal — Health and Hospitals.......................................          31,936,997            33,651,188

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

      Subtotal — Natural Resources and Recreation...................            4,473,254              4,202,946

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

      Subtotal Agriculture...........................................................            7,362,147              7,535,647

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

      Subtotal — Retirement and Pensions..................................          25,546,046            26,423,457

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

      Subtotal — Debt Service...................................................          11,103,419            13,641,781

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

XIV. SALARY INCREASES

                                                                                                        1961‑62                    1962‑63

Salary Increases for Employees Subject to the

Personnel Act..........................................................................       $   2,906,762      $      2,922,785

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

III. CORRECTION

                                                                                                        1961‑62                    1962‑63

Prison Department...................................................................                -0-                           -0-

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

      Subtotal — Highways........................................................        111,706,113          117,389,909

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS

                                                                                                        1961‑62                    1962‑63

Contribution to Retirement System...........................................            2,555,149              2,716,136

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

XIII. DEBT SERVICE

Interest on and Redemption of Highway Bonds........................          12,316,750            12,312,063

                                                                                                      ____________   ____________

 

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

                                                                                                _______________   ____________

TOTAL — HIGHWAY FUND...........................................    $     139,696,877      $  146,186,531

                                                                                                _______________   ____________

                                                                                                _______________   ____________

(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).

                                                                                                _____________      ____________

 

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

                                                                                                _____________      ____________

 

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.