NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 914

HOUSE BILL 1048

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WILSON COUNTY TO FIX THE COMPENSATION FOR THE CHAIRMAN AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Wilson County is authorized and empowered by a majority vote of the duly elected members of said board to fix the compensation of the chairman and members thereof; provided, that the salary of the chairman of said board of county commissioners shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month and the salaries of the members of said board shall not exceed the sum of sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ($62.50) per month for each commissioner.

Sec. 2. The chairman and other members of the Board of County Commissioners of Wilson County may receive actual subsistence costs while away from the county on county business, and in addition thereto an amount not exceeding seven cents (7¢) per mile for necessary travel while in the performance of their official duties outside the County of Wilson. Subsistence and mileage within the limits herein specified may be authorized for said board by a majority vote of its duly elected members.

Sec. 3. Such salaries and expenses as are authorized by the board pursuant to the terms hereof shall be paid monthly out of the county general funds.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1961.