NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 858

HOUSE BILL 1155

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE EQUALIZATION AND ADJUSTMENT OF SALARIES OF CERTAIN COUNTY OFFICIALS OF STOKES COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Stokes County is hereby authorized and empowered to fix and determine, in its discretion, the number of salaried deputies, clerks, assistants and other employees which may be employed in the offices of the Clerk of Superior Court, the Register of Deeds, the Sheriff and other offices of the county.

The said board is hereby authorized and empowered to fix, in its discretion, all salaries, travel allowances and other compensation paid by the county to all elective and appointive officials and employees except as may be paid to the board of county commissioners. The salaries, travel allowances and other compensation to be fixed by said board are prescribed and regulated as follows:

(a)       All salaries, travel allowances and other compensation fixed by the said board for such positions shall be paid from the general or special funds of the county.

(b)       Action to fix salaries, travel allowances, and other compensation may be taken by separate resolution of the board of county commissioners, provided that proper provision for the payment of such salaries, compensation and travel allowances shall have been made in the annual appropriation resolution then governing the finances of the county; or, such salaries, compensation, and travel allowances may be fixed and provided for in the annual appropriation resolution passed in accordance with the provisions of the County Fiscal Control Act.

(c)       No salary, travel allowance or compensation presently being paid under Acts of the General Assembly specifically fixing the amount of such salary, travel allowance or compensation shall be reduced by the board of commissioners prior to the expiration of the present term of office of such officer or employee.

(d)       The salary, travel allowance or compensation of the Clerk of Court, Sheriff, and Register of Deeds, those being the elective officers, shall not be reduced nor increased by the board more than fifteen per cent (15%) in any biennium, nor more than fifteen per cent (15%) in any biennium as compared with the preceding biennium. The salary, travel allowance or compensation of any other employee shall not be reduced nor increased by the board more than ten per cent (10%)in any biennium, nor more than ten per cent (10%) in any biennium as compared with the preceding biennium.

(e)       No provision of this Act shall be construed to diminish the authority of the said board established in Sections 153-218, 153-226 and 155-8 of the General Statutes of North Carolina.

Sec. 2. The Board of Education and the Board of County Commissioners of Stokes County shall receive twenty-five dollars ($25.00) a day for regular meetings and twenty dollars ($20.00) a day for special meetings and such travel allowances as may be prescribed by the board of commissioners.

Sec. 3. Chapter 689 of the Session Laws of 1959 and Chapter 837 of the Session Laws of 1953 and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1961.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of June, 1961.