NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION
CHAPTER 1107
SENATE BILL 19
AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT OPERATIONS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AGENCIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The appropriations made herein are intended to be for maximum amounts necessary to provide the services and accomplish the purposes described in The Budget. It is the intent of the General Assembly that savings shall be effected where the total amounts appropriated shall not be required to perform these services and accomplish these purposes, and that such savings shall be reverted to the appropriate fund at the end of the biennium.
GENERAL FUND
Sec. 2. Appropriations from the General Fund of the State for the maintenance of the State departments, institutions, and agencies, and for other purposes as enumerated are hereby made for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1968, and June 30, 1969, respectively, according to the following schedule:
I. GENERAL GOVERNMENT
1967-68 1968-69
The General Assembly $ $ 1,515,900
Judicial Department 5,829,892* 13,273,485*
Judicial Council 1,165 1,165
Counsel for Indigent Defendants 747,830* 816,730*
The Governor's Office 311,349* 295,973*
The Lieutenant Governor 12,163 12,451
Department of Administration 3,815,919* 3,952,799*
Department of Personnel 520,282* 529,713*
Secretary of State 165,739 169,723
State Auditor 491,423 549,996
State Treasurer:
1. State Treasurer $ 209,138 $ 221,332
2. Local Government Commission 115,356 116,303
Department of Justice:
1. Attorney General 236,287 239,838
2. State Bureau of Investigation 675,591* 639,624
3. General Statutes Commission 14,787 14,851
Department of Revenue 6,946,916* 7,177,783*
Department of Tax Research 106,895 116,649
North Carolina Tax Review Board 6,480 6,524
State Board of Elections 40,612 47,251
North Carolina Courts Commission 22,500* 22,500*
Legislative Research Commission 16,000* 16,000*
North Carolina Capital Planning Commission 35,000 35,000
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 are to be made
from this appropriation under the
provisions of G.S. 143-12, or such other
statute as may be applicable 1,350,000* 1,350,000*
Salary Adjustment Fund 794,075* 1,460,743*
Salary Increases — Council of State — 8,000*
Subtotal — General Government $ 22,465,399* $ 32,590,333*
II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION
The Adjutant General:
1. Adjutant General's Office $ 589,981* $ 596,105*
2. Armory Commission 51,000 41,600
State Civil Air Patrol 18,136 18,352
State Civil Defense Agency 159,562 160,778
Department of Motor Vehicles:
1. Automobile Drivers' Financial
Responsibility Program 568,608 603,460
Utilities Commission 441,588 442,420
Insurance Department:
1. Insurance Department 745,564* 766,213*
2. State Property Fire Insurance Fund 250,000 250,000
3. Firemen's Relief Fund 1,750 1,750
4. Building Code Council 3,808 3,808
Department of Labor 775,526 795,833
Industrial Commission 413,070 439,056*
State Board of Alcoholic Control 731,897* 740,972*
Department of Agriculture:
1. Gasoline and Oil Inspection Service $ 140,957 $ 137,199
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Subtotal — Public Safety and Regulation $ 4,891,447* $ 4,997,546*
III. CORRECTION
North Carolina Board of Juvenile Correction:
1. General Administration $ 104,432 $ 108,353
2. Stonewall Jackson Training School 649,599* 678,809*
3. State Home and Industrial School for
Girls — Samarcand Manor 609,025* 648,357*
4. Morrison Training School 734,063* 755,252*
5. Eastern Carolina Training School 451,184* 471,156*
6. State Training School for Girls — Dobbs
Farm 440,193* 462,811*
7. Leonard Training School 516,819* 547,030*
8. Juvenile Evaluation Center 891,062* 925,844*
9. New Training School 306,359* 366,997*
Fugitives from Justice 6,500 6,500
Prison Department 14,017,806* 14,566,670*
Probation Commission 2,035,068 2,022,525
Board of Paroles 816,298 833,620
Subtotal — Correction $ 21,578,408* $ 22,393,924*
IV. PUBLIC WELFARE
Department of Public Welfare:
1. Department of Public Welfare $ 18,275,468* $ 19,438,170*
2. Child Welfare and Day Care Services 1,060,541 1,099,740
State Commission for the Blind 1,980,891* 2,011,830*
Veterans Commission:
1. Veterans Commission 515,072* 522,573*
2. County Service Officers 94,000 94,000
Confederate Women's Home 68,092 68,554
Oxford Orphanage 62,250 62,250
Junior Order Children's Home 55,000 55,000
Central Orphanage of North Carolina 86,000 86,000
Odd Fellows Home 11,000 11,000
Pythian Home 11,000 11,000
Alexander Schools, Inc. 40,000 40,000
Eliada Homes, Inc. 15,000 15,000
Boys Home of North Carolina, Inc. 10,000 10,000
Sipe's Orchard Home, Inc. 12,593 12,593
Subtotal — Public Welfare $ 22,296,907* $ 23,537,710*
V. EDUCATION
1967-68 1968-69
Department of Public Instruction:
1. Administration and Supervision $ 1,108,049 $ 1,129,153
State Board of Education:
1. Nine months School Fund 308,415,173* 337,729,476*
2. State Board of Education 766,076 769,494
3. Vocational Education 10,174,613* 11,457,721*
4. Purchase of Free Textbooks 9,867,240 8,613,445
5. Vocational Textile School 116,549 114,682
6. Purchase of School Buses 2,843,345 2,843,345
7. Division of School Planning 207,286 211,117
8. Comprehensive School Improvement Project 785,716 785,716
9. Vocational Rehabilitation 1,572,848* 1,586,179*
10. Department of Community Colleges —
Equipment 4,952,058* 1,602,449*
11. Instruction and Training for Trainable
Mentally Handicapped Children 1,073,067 1,184,304
12. National Defense Education Program 241,357 248,395
13. Department of Community Colleges 17,884,494* 22,877,148*
14. Program of Education by Television 123,405 124,905
15. Professional Improvement of Teachers 154,374 155,322
State Board of Higher Education:
1. State Board of Higher Education 1,161,515* 1,464,740*
2. State Education Assistance Authority 30,600* 30,600*
Department of Administration — Reserve for
Educational Benefits — Children of Veterans 651,334* 650,844*
University of North Carolina (Consolidated):
1. General Administration 743,715* 770,399*
2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
a. University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill 16,650,406* 18,021,743*
b. Division of Health Affairs 5,358,867 5,826,362*
3. North Carolina State University at
Raleigh 13,200,016* 14,080,694*
4. University of North Carolina at
Greensboro 5,186,556* 5,783,256*
5. University of North Carolina at
Charlotte 2,168,633* 2,447,200*
East Carolina College 7,031,938* 7,701,739*
The Agricultural and Technical College 2,977,340* 3,034,478*
Western Carolina College 2,712,919* 3,124,815*
Appalachian State Teachers College 3,706,731* 4,073,122*
Pembroke State College 1,266,208* 1,221/765*
Winston-Salem State College 1,313,164* 1,268,190*
Elizabeth City State College 906,856* 918,105*
Fayetteville State College 1,005,245* 997,790*
1967-68 1968-69
North Carolina College at Durham $ 2,793,133* $ 2,926,562*
Asheville-Biltmore College 968,405* 1,020,126*
Wilmington College 975,224* 1,039,175*
North Carolina Board of Science and
Technology 490,722* 491,687*
North Carolina School for the Deaf 1,419,095* 1,508,155*
Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf 554,286* 636,680*
The Governor Morehead School 1,525,609* 1,610,324*
Student Loan Funds:
1. Medical Care Commission — Medical Education 300,000 300,000
2. State Board of Education — Teacher Education 747,500 800,000
Department of Archives and History 963,661* 974,433*
Tryon Palace — Department of Archives and
History 96,743 100,032
State Library:
1. Library 269,459* 267,341*
2. State Aid to Public Libraries 792,768 794,579
North Carolina Museum of Art 347,571 282,240
North Carolina State Art Society 7,000 7,000
North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc. 75,000 75,000
North Carolina School of the Arts 667,194 749,963
Old Salem, Inc. 62,500* 62,500*
Highlands Biological Station, Inc. 15,150 15,150
Moore's Creek Battleground Association 500 500
Parkway Playhouse, Inc. — University of
North Carolina at Greensboro 25,000* —
North Carolina Rhododendron Festival, Inc. 5,000* —
North Carolina Apple Festival 2,500* —
Department of Administration:
1. Reserve for Higher Education — To
Replace Contributions by Auxiliary
Services to Academic Expense 30,000 30,000
Subtotal — Education $ 439,491,713* $ 476,540,140*
VII. NON-HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION
State Ports Authority $ 208,969* $ 208,969*
VIII. HEALTH AND HOSPITALS
State Board of Health $ 6,702,867* $ 6,908,776*
Medical Care Commission — Administration 178,257 181,271
University of North Carolina:
1. Memorial Hospital — Psychiatric Center 881,574* 913,569*
2. Memorial Hospital 3,540,093* 3,978,514*
1967-68 1968-69
Department of Mental Health:
1. General Administration $ 3,595,196* $ 4,255,930
2. Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program 301,271 440,639
3. Dorothea Dix Hospital 6,176,675 6,276,322
4. Broughton Hospital 5,939,949 5,969,324
5. Western Carolina Center 2,605,022* 2,894,294
6. Cherry Hospital 6,360,392 6,483,739
7. O'Berry Center 3,133,861 3,191,012
8. John Umstead Hospital 5,001,461 5,138,556
9. Murdoch Center 4,590,430 4,698,688
10. Caswell Center 4,150,306 4,235,785
11. Wright School 78,277* 145,000*
Advisory Council on Mental Retardation 134,211* 135,531*
North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital 677,933 679,207
North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital 283,941 287,124
North Carolina Sanatorium System:
1. General Administration 84,412* 83,460
2. North Carolina Sanatorium 1,540,884 1,570,223
3. Western North Carolina Sanatorium 1,417,979 1,453,148
4. Eastern North Carolina Sanatorium 1,787,791 1,824,252
5. Gravely Sanatorium 769,460 758,277
Asheville Orthopedic Hospital 90,000 90,000
North Carolina Cancer Institute, Inc. 26,000 26,000
Subtotal — Health and Hospitals $ 60,048,242* $ 62,618,641*
IX. NATURAL RESOURCES AND RECREATION
Department of Conservation and Development:
1. Department of Conservation and Development $ 5,444,652* $ 5,524,719*
2. Kerr Reservoir Development
Commission — Nutbush Conservation Area 54,321 53,160
Department of Water Resources 794,917* 801,794*
North Carolina National Park, Parkway and
Forests Development Commission 9,916 9,916
Industrial Extension Service —
North Carolina State University at Raleigh 235,951 287,011
Rural Electrification Authority 79,023 80,373
North Carolina Recreation Commission 136,677 136,791
Confederate Museum — Richmond, Virginia 200 200
Confederate Cemetery — Raleigh, North Carolina 350 350
Garden Clubs of North Carolina, Inc. — The
Elizabethan Garden 5,500 5,500
Brevard Music Center 25,000* 25,000*
Person-Caswell Lake Authority 25,000* —
Subtotal — Natural Resources and
Recreation $ 6,811,507* $ 6,924,814*
X. AGRICULTURE
1967-68 1968-69
Department of Agriculture $ 3,902,850* $ 4,016,272*
Agricultural Experiment Station — North
Carolina State University at Raleigh 4,171,027* 4,362,384*
Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service —
North Carolina State University at Raleigh 4,060,566* 4,187,162*
State Soil and Water Conservation
Committee 200,706* 201,951*
Subtotal — Agriculture $ 12,335,149* $ 12,767,769*
XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS
Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System:
1. Administration $ 377,952 $ 390,014
2. State Contributions 61,553,260* 65,059,826*
3. Teachers and State Employees Who
Had Attained Age 65 at August 1, 1959 197,000 189,000
Law Enforcement Officers' Benefit and
Retirement Fund — Contributions from
General Fund 68,188 69,125
North Carolina Firemen's Pension Fund 517,205 516,779
Pensions — Confederate Widows 30,192 21,192
Pensions — Widows of Governors 12,000 12,000
Subtotal — Retirement and Pensions $ 62,755,797* $ 66,257,936*
XIII. DEBT SERVICE
Interest on Bonds $ 6,295,459* $ 6,293,448*
Redemption of Bonds 11,215,000 11,480,000
Landscrip Fund 7,500 7,500
Subtotal — Debt Service $ 17,517,959* $ 17,780,948*
XIV. SALARY INCREASES
State Employees Subject to Personnel Act $ 6,707,796* $ 6,781,152*
TOTAL — GENERAL FUND $ 677,109,293* $ 733,399,882*
HIGHWAY FUND
Sec. 3. 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, 1968, and June 30, 1969, respectively, according to the following schedule:
I. GENERAL GOVERNMENT
1967-68 1968-69
Salary Adjustments — Highway Fund Employees $ 150,000* $ 350,000*
II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION
Department of Motor Vehicles $ 18,669,933* $ 19,440,263*
Transportation Inspection (Utilities
Commission) 202,247 201,469
Gasoline Inspection Service (Department
of Agriculture) 367,168 365,108
Subtotal — Public Safety and Regulation $ 19,239,348* $ 20,006,840*
V. EDUCATION
Driver Training and Safety Education $ 2,044,389 $ 2,201,987
VI. HIGHWAYS
State Highway Commission:
1. Merit Salary Increments $ 1,909,630 $ 3,306,451*
2. Reserve for Contingencies 965,819* 939,017*
3. General Administration 2,989,954 3,007,675*
4. Engineering Administration and
Supervision 7,038,571* 6,962,790*
5. State Maintenance and Construction:
a. Primary System 33,000,000 36,000,000
b. Secondary System 50,300,000* 52,729,205*
c. Urban System 6,700,000 7,300,000
d. Public Service Roads 1,300,000 1,330,000
6. State Funds to Match Federal Aid
Highway Planning Survey and Highway
Planning Research 521,666 521,666
7. State Funds to Match Federal Aid
Construction 35,300,000 37,500,000
8. State Aid to Municipalities 9,937,500 10,265,000
Subtotal — Highways $ 149,963,140* $ 159,861,804*
XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS
Contributions to Retirement System —
Salary Adjustments $ 20,000* $ 40,000*
Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement
System:
Contribution from Highway Fund —
Salary Increases 438,758* 448,121*
Contribution from State Highway
Commission 7,023,033* 7,327,909*
Subtotal — Retirement and Pensions $ 7,481,791* $ 7,816,030*
XIII. DEBT SERVICE
1967-68 1968-69
Interest on and Redemption of
Highway Bonds $ 32,178,187 $ 32,468,250
XIV. SALARY INCREASES
Salary Increases for Highway
Fund Employees $ 4,157,580* $ 4,180,273*
TOTAL — HIGHWAY FUND $ 215,214,435* $ 226,885,184*
Transfers and changes may be made in the Highway Fund from Merit Salary Increments, Salary Increases, Salary Adjustments, Contribution to Retirement System — Salary Increases, and Contribution to Retirement System — Salary Adjustments to other operating appropriations in the Highway Fund by authorization of the Director of the Budget. Transfers and changes may be made from Reserve for Contingencies to other operating appropriations in the Highway Fund by authorization of the Governor and Council of State. Transfers and changes may be made to and/ or from Title VI — 3, 4, 5(a), (b), (c), (d), 6 and 7 by authorization of the Director of the Budget: PROVIDED, Title VI — 5(a), (b), (c), (d), 6 or 7 shall not be reduced by more than ten per cent (10%).
In the event that the revenues accruing to the Highway Fund exclusive of one cent (1¢) gasoline tax for Debt Service, exceed the estimated revenues for each year of the biennium, to wit, one hundred eighty-one million, five hundred fifteen thousand dollars ($181,515,000) for the fiscal year 1967-68 and one hundred eighty-nine million, six hundred seventy-eight thousand dollars ($189,678,000) for the fiscal year 1968-69, such excesses may be allocated in the next succeeding year by the Director of the Budget, to increase the appropriations under Titles II and VI — 3, 4, 5(a), (b), (c), (d), 6 and 7. Increases in Highway Fund surplus from sources other than revenues may be allocated in the next succeeding year by the Director of the Budget, to increase the appropriations under Titles II and VI — 3, 4, 5(a), (b), (c), (d), 6 and 7.
Sec. 4. 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 I, General Statutes of North Carolina.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. Appropriations made herein to the various State agencies for the purpose of purchase of medical, dental, and optometric care, services and treatment, including hospitalization, will be disbursed on the basis of fee schedules and rates approved by the Advisory Budget Commission.
Sec. 8. The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to transfer, as between the three institutions, the appropriations made in this Act for the North Carolina School for the Deaf, the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, and the Governor Morehead School, when in his opinion it shall be deemed to be in the best interest of the State.
Sec. 9. Funds appropriated herein to the State Board of Education to provide for additional teachers and/or for specified purposes shall be used for those purposes, and may not be diverted to any other use, except in emergency situations as determined by the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission.
Sec. 10. It is the intention of this Act that, as to new units except those herein authorized, no recommendations for establishment of additional units shall be made by the Department of Community Colleges in the absence of a showing of a clear and urgent need in a particular area of the State, to the end that during the 1969-71 biennium adequate support may be provided for equipping and upgrading the operations, and for providing State matching funds for capital improvements, at existing institutions.
It is the further intention of this Act that it shall be the announced policy of the Department of Community Colleges that, as to capital improvement projects, no construction contracts may be let until it has been clearly established that funds are available for the related permanent equipment.
In order to assure a fair and equitable apportionment of teaching salary funds to each institution of the Community College System, the funds appropriated to the State Board of Education, Department of Community Colleges, (Budget Code 18062) in this Act may be used by the State Board of Education to establish a State-wide salary schedule making available to each institution an average curriculum teacher salary for 12 months service of eight thousand nine hundred dollars ($8,900) in fiscal year 1967-68 and of nine thousand six hundred dollars ($9,600) in fiscal year 1968-69, or so near such State-wide average salary each year as may be possible within the funds herein appropriated for operation of the institutions of the Community College System.
Sec. 11. The Director of the Budget shall require that the Highway Fund, other special funds employing personnel, and other operations employing personnel and which are designated by the 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.
No part of the appropriation made in Section 2 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 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 institution 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. 12. Subject to rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Administration and approved by the Director of the Budget any State department, institution, or 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 an employee is directed by the employing agency to transfer from one location to another.
Sec. 13. Subject to a recommendation of the Advisory Budget Commission, funds not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for each year of the biennium 1967-69 may be allotted out of the Contingency and Emergency Appropriation for use by the State Department of Agriculture, North Carolina Experiment Station, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for a witch weed control program; and, subject to a recommendation by the Advisory Budget Commission, funds not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) each year may be allotted out of the Contingency and Emergency Fund for use by the State Department of Agriculture for payment of hog cholera indemnities.
SALARIES AND WAGES
Sec. 14. The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to transfer from the appropriations for salary increases of State employees subject to the Personnel Act, such sums as may be required to increase salaries in effect on June 30, 1967 under the salary schedule established by the State Personnel Board. The Director of the Budget is further authorized to transfer any unexpended balance which may remain at the end of each fiscal year, after the provisions of this Section have been fully met, from the appropriations for Salary Increases of State Employees Subject to the Personnel Act, to the appropriations for Salary Adjustments of State Employees.
The appropriations for salary increases of State employees who are subject to the State Personnel Act shall be transferred by the Director of the Budget to departments, institutions and agencies in such amounts as may be required to increase salaries, commencing July 1, 1967, for all full-time, permanent employees in accordance with the following provisions: For granting a six per cent (6%) Legislative salary increase to each permanent full-time employee who is subject to the provisions of the State Personnel Act. This six per cent (6%) increase shall be based on each employee's monthly salary in effect on June 30, 1967, and may be rounded to conform to the steps in the salary ranges adopted by the State Personnel Board.
The provisions of this Section shall 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 are employed, sufficient funds to conform with the provisions of this Section; provided, funds are available or made available by the sponsoring agents.
Salaries for positions which are paid from funds which are partially from the General Fund and partially from sources other than the General Fund shall be increased from the General Fund appropriation only to the extent of the proportionate part 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 1967-69 notwithstanding the granting of the Legislative salary increase.
The salary ranges for all employees under the Personnel Act shall be increased, so far as the maximum is concerned, by an amount equal to this Legislative salary increase to the end that, 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 Act shall not apply to persons separated from State service due to resignation, dismissal, reduction in force, death or retirement, whose last work day is prior to July 1, 1967.
Sec. 14.1. The salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall be twenty-eight thousand dollars ($28,000) per annum, and the salaries of each of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court shall be twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000) per annum; the salary of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals shall be twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per annum, and the salaries of each of the Judges of said Court shall be twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000) per annum; the salaries of the Judges of the Superior Court shall be twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) per annum; the salary of the Chief Judge of each District Court shall be fifteen thousand five hundred dollars ($15,500) per annum, and the salary of each District Court Judge shall be fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per annum. The salary of the Administrative Officer of the Courts shall be twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) per annum and the salary of the Assistant Administrative Officer of the Courts shall be sixteen thousand five hundred dollars ($16,500) per annum.
EFFECTIVE
Sec. 15. The provisions of the Executive Budget Act, Chapter 143, Article 2 of the General Statutes, are re-enacted and shall remain in full force and effect, and are incorporated in this Act by reference.
Sec. 16. 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. 17. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 18. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1967.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of July, 1967.