NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1963 SESSION CHAPTER 683 SENATE BILL 13

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1 NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION CHAPTER SENATE BILL 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. 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 0,, and June 0,, respectively, according to the following schedule: I. GENERAL GOVERNMENT - - General Assembly $ $,,00 Supreme Court,*,* Superior Courts,0,*,0,* Judicial Council,0,0 The Governor's Office,, The Lieutenant Governor,0 Department of Administration,0,*,,* Department of Personnel,, Merit System Council,, Secretary of State,,0 State Auditor 0,0*,0* State Treasurer:. State Treasurer,,0. Local Government Commission,, Department of Justice:. Attorney General,,. Bureau of Investigation,*,0*. General Statutes Commission,0,0 Department of Revenue,,*,0,* Department of Tax Research,0, Tax Review Board,,0 State Board of Elections,0, Contingency and Emergency:. 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

2 under this Section. Allotments to be made from this appropriation under the provisions of G.S. -, or such other statute as may be applicable $,0,000 $,0,000 Subtotal General Government $,,* $,,0* II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION The Adjutant General:. Adjutant General's Office, 0,. Armory Commission 0,00,000 State Civil Air Patrol,, State Civil Defense Agency, 0, Department of Motor Vehicles:. Automobile Drivers' Financial Responsibility Program 0,0 0,0 Utilities Commission 0,*,* Insurance Department:. Insurance Department, 00,. State Property Fire Insurance 0,000 0,000. Firemen's Relief,0,0. Building Code Council,00,00 Department of Labor 0,0,0 Industrial Commission,* 0,* State Board of Alcoholic Control,, Department of Agriculture:. Gasoline and Oil Inspection Service 0,0*,0* Subtotal Public Safety and Regulation $,0,* $,,0* III. CORRECTION Board of Correction and Training:. General Administration,,0. Stonewall Jackson Training School,*,*. State Home and Industrial School for Girls Samarcand Manor,* 0,*. Morrison Training School,*,*. Eastern Carolina Training School,* 0,*. State Training School for Girls Dobbs Farm $,* $,*. Leonard Training School,* 0,*. Juvenile Evaluation and Treatment Center,0* 0,0* Fugitives from Justice,00,00 Prison Department,0,*,,* Probation Commission,0,,0,0 Board of Paroles,, Subtotal Correction $,,* $,,0* IV. PUBLIC WELFARE Department of Public Welfare,,*,,* State Commission for the Blind,,00*,,* Veterans Commission:

3 Veterans Commission,,. County Service Officers 0,000 0,000 Confederate Women's Home,, Oxford Orphanage,0,0 Junior Order Orphanage,000,000 Oxford Colored Orphanage,000,000 Odd Fellows Home,000,000 Pythian Home,000,000 Alexander Schools, Inc. 0,000 0,000 Eliada Homes, Inc.,000,000 Boys Home of North Carolina, Inc. 0,000 0,000 Subtotal Public Welfare $,,* $,,* V. EDUCATION Department of Public Instruction:. Department of Public Instruction,0 0,. Experimental Program Relating to Merit Plan for Teachers,0, State Board of Education:. Nine Months School Fund,,*,,0*. Incentive Compensation for Recognized Merit in Teaching 0,000 0,000. State Board of Education,0,. Vocational Education,0,,,0. Purchase of Free Textbooks,,,,. Vocational Textile School 0, 0,. Purchase of School Buses,0,0,0,0. Division of School Planning,*,*. Vocational Rehabilitation $,00,0 $,0, 0. Vocational Education Industrial Education Centers Equipment,,000,,000. Instructional Services for Homebound Children -0-* -0-*. Instruction and Training for Trainable Mentally Handicapped Children,,. National Defense Education Program,,. Comprehensive Community Colleges Program 00,000 00,000. Program of Education by Television,00 0,. Curriculum Study and Research,,. Professional Improvement of Teachers 0,000* 0,000* State Board of Higher Education,*,* University of North Carolina (Consolidated):. General Administration,*,0*. Long Range Planning Program,,. University of North Carolina: a. University of North Carolina,,*,0,00* b. Division of Health Affairs,0,0*,,0*. State College of Agriculture and Engineering,0,*,0,*

4 The Woman's College,,,,0 East Carolina College,,00*,,0* The Agricultural and Technical College,,,0, Western Carolina College,,*,0,* Appalachian State Teachers College,0,0*,,0* Pembroke State College,*,* Winston-Salem Teachers College,*,0* Elizabeth City State Teachers College,*,* Fayetteville State Teachers College 0,0* 0,0* North Carolina College at Durham,,00*,,* North Carolina School for the Deaf,0,*,0,* Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf,,00* State School for the Blind and the Deaf,0,0*,,* Student Loan Funds:. Medical Care Commission Medical Education,00 0,000. State Board of Education Teacher Education,00,000 Department of Archives and History,, Tryon Palace Commission Department of Archives and History,, State Library:. Library,,. State Aid to Public Libraries 0,0, North Carolina Museum of Art $,0* $,* North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc.,000,000 Old Salem, Inc. 0,000* 0,000* Highlands Biological Station, Inc. 0,0* 0,0* Moore's Creek Battleground Association North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission 0, 0, Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission, Department of Archives and History Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission Colonial Records Project,*,* Department of Administration:. Community Colleges 00,,0*. Reserve for Conversion of Community Colleges to Four-Year Status 00,000,00,000. Reserve for Higher Education To Replace Contributions by Auxiliary Services to Academic Expense,000,000 Subtotal Education $0,0,* $,,* VII. NON-HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION State Ports Authority,, VIII. HEALTH AND HOSPITALS State Board of Health,,*,0,* Medical Care Commission:. Medical Care Commission

5 Administration 0,0, University of North Carolina:. Memorial Hospital Psychiatric Center 0,0*,*. Memorial Hospital,,*,,* Hospitals Board of Control:. General Administration,,. Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program,,. Dorothea Dix Hospital,0,,,. Broughton Hospital,,00,0,. Western Carolina School,000,,000. Cherry Hospital,,,,0. O'Berry School,,,,0. John Umstead Hospital,,,,0. Murdoch School,,0,,0 0. Caswell School,,,0,. Demonstration School for Re-Education of Emotionally Disturbed Children,000,000 North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital $, $, North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital,,0 North Carolina Sanatorium System:. General Administration,,. North Carolina Sanatorium,,,,. Western North Carolina Sanatorium,,,0,. Eastern North Carolina Sanatorium,,,,. Gravely Sanatorium,, Asheville Orthopedic Hospital,000,000 North Carolina Cancer Institute, Inc.,000,000 Subtotal Health and Hospitals $,,0* $,,* IX. NATURAL RESOURCES AND RECREATION Department of Conservation and Development:. Department of Conservation and Development,,*,0,*. Division of Commercial Fisheries,,. Division of Commercial Fisheries Shellfish Division,00,. Kerr Reservoir Development Commission Nutbush Conservation Area,0,0 Department of Water Resources,*,* North Carolina National Park, Parkway and Forests Development Commission,,0 Industrial Extension Service State College of Agriculture and Engineering 0,0*,* Rural Electrification Authority,00, North Carolina Recreation Commission 0, 0, Confederate Museum Richmond, Va Confederate Cemetery Raleigh, N.C. 0 0 Brevard Music Center, Inc.,00,00 Garden Clubs of North Carolina, Inc The

6 Elizabethan Garden,00,00 Subtotal Natural Resources and Recreation $,,0* $,,* X. AGRICULTURE Department of Agriculture:. Contribution from General Fund,,,,0. State Meat and Poultry Inspection Program,0, Agricultural Experiment Station State College,,*,,* Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service State College $,0,* $,,* State Soil and Water Conservation Committee,0, Subtotal Agriculture $,,0* $,0,* XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System:. Administration,0 0,. State Contributions,,*,0,0*. Teachers and State Employees Who Had Attained Age at August, 0,00 0,00 Law Enforcement Officers' Benefit and Retirement Fund Contributions from General Fund,, North Carolina Firemen's Pension Fund,,0 Pensions Confederate Widows,, Pensions Widows of Governors,000,000 Subtotal Retirement and Pensions $,,0* $ 0,,* XIII. DEBT SERVICE Interest on Bonds,0,0,, Redemption of Bonds,,000,0,000 Landscrip Fund,00,00 Subtotal Debt Service $ 0,,0 $,, XIV. SALARY INCREASES Salary Increases, SPA Employees,0,0*,0,0* Salary Increases for Members of Council of State,000,000 Subtotal Salary Increases $,0,0* $,0,0* XV. SALARY ADJUSTMENT FUNDS Salary Adjustments, General Fund Employees,*,,* TOTAL GENERAL FUND $,,0* $,0,* HIGHWAY FUND

7 Sec.. 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 0,, and June 0,, respectively, according to the following schedule: II. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATION - - Department of Motor Vehicles $,,0 $,0, Transportation Inspection (to Utilities Commission) 0,0, Gasoline Inspection Service (Department of Agriculture),*,* Subtotal Public Safety and Regulation $,,* $,0,* VI. HIGHWAYS State Highway Commission:. Merit Salary Increments,,0,0,. Reserve for Contingencies 00,000 00,000. General Administration,0,0,,. Engineering Administration and Supervision,0,,,0. State Maintenance and Construction: a. Primary System,,000,000,000 b. Secondary System,,* 0,0,0* c. Urban System,0,000,0,000 d. Public Service Roads,00,000,00,000. State Funds to Match Federal Aid Construction $,00,000 $,000,000. State Aid to Municipalities,0,,,0 Subtotal Highways $,0,0* $,0,* XII. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS Contribution to Retirement System,0,0*,,* XIII. DEBT SERVICE Interest on and Redemption of Highway Bonds,,,,0 XIV. SALARY INCREASES - - Salary Increases, SPA Employees $,,0* $,,0* XV. SALARY ADJUSTMENT FUNDS Salary Adjustments, Highway Fund Employees 0,000* 00,000* TOTAL HIGHWAY FUND $,0, $,0,0 (Transfers and changes may be made in the Highway Fund from Merit Salary Increments and Reserve for Contingencies 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

8 from Title VI-,,, (a), (b), (c), (d), and under authorization by the Director of the Budget: Provided, Title VI- (a), (b), (c), (d) or shall not be reduced more than ten per cent (0%). In the event that the revenues accruing to the Highway Fund, exclusive of one cent (l ) gasoline tax for Debt Service, exceed the amount of one hundred forty-four million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand dollars ($,,000) for the fiscal year - and the amount of one hundred forty-nine million nine hundred fourteen thousand dollars ($,,000) for the fiscal year - such excesses may be allocated in the next succeeding year by the Director of the Budget, to increase the appropriations under Title VI-,, (a), (b), (c), (d), and. 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 VI-,,, (a), (b), (c), (d) and. AGRICULTURE FUND Sec.. Appropriations from the Agriculture Fund of the State for maintenance of agricultural activities are hereby made for the two fiscal years ending June 0,, and June 0,, respectively, according to the following schedule: - -. Department of Agriculture,,0,,0. 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.. 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 -, subject to expenditure under the provisions of the Executive Budget Act, G.S. -: - - Wildlife Resources Commission $,,* $,0,* Wildlife Resources Commission Motorboat Section,0,00 TOTAL $,0,* $,,* Sec.. 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, Article, General Statutes of North Carolina. GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec.. 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.. 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

9 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.. Appropriations made to the North Carolina School for the Deaf, to the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, and to the State School for the Blind and the Deaf under Section 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. -. Sec.. From the funds appropriated to the State institutions of higher education in Section 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 ( ) per hour of work performed. Sec. 0. Appropriations made to the Oxford Colored Orphanage under Section 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.. 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 $0,000. Sec.. 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. No part of the appropriation made in Section of this Act to the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System as "contributions" under Title XII- 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 () 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 () who performs his duties for an operation or activity designated by the Director of the Budget as a self-supporting operation or activity, or() 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 institution or operation or activity described above in this

10 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.. 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.. 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. -, 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 ($.00) per student quarter hour of instruction actually delivered to North Carolina residents and courses approved for such State aid by 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.. The appropriations made to the Department of Administration for the purpose of conversion of the Community Colleges at Charlotte, Asheville, and Wilmington to four-year status shall constitute a lump sum from which payments shall be made to each college by the Advisory Budget Commission; to qualify for such conversion the individual colleges must provide adequate academic staff, curriculum, and facilities to make possible presentation of four-year college level of instruction. Sec.. The appropriations made to the State Board of Education for the development of a system of Comprehensive Community Colleges offering college parallel, technical-vocational-terminal, and adult education instruction tailored to area needs shall be distributed to such institutions upon the certification of the State Board of Education to the Department of Administration that adequate academic staff, curriculum, and facilities are available to make possible presentation of post-high school level of instruction. Sec... The Attendance Counselors are to be allocated by the State Board of Education on a formula that will not result in more than one counselor being allocated to any one school unit; except that more than one counselor may be assigned to a school unit if such school unit now has more than one attendance counselor; provided that no one school unit may have more counselors allocated to such unit than are now employed by that unit; also to provide that no unit will be allocated a counselor unless a written request be submitted by the Board of Education of such school unit; also that attendance counselors now employed by the various school units shall be judged to be qualified to meet the employment standards established by the State Board of Education for these positions. Sec.. For the biennium - 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 Article of Chapter of the General Statutes and such amounts as are necessary for the administration of said Article. Sec... Subject to a recommendation of the Advisory Budget Commission, funds not to exceed $00,000 for each year of the biennium - 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. Sec.. The Department of Administration upon approval of the Advisory Budget Commission is authorized to transfer funds appropriated by this Act to the State Prison

11 Department, Probation Commission, and Board of Paroles as required for carrying out the most effective correctional program in North Carolina. SALARIES AND WAGES Sec.. The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to transfer from the appropriations made in Section of this Act for Salary Increases of members of the Council of State to provide annual compensation of $,000 to each of the members of the Council. Sec... The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to transfer from the appropriations made for () Salary Adjustment Funds () Legislative Salaries Increase Funds, made in Section and of this Act, sums which may be required for distribution to agencies upon appropriate action by the Personnel Council for positions subject to the Personnel Act, or upon action by the Advisory Budget Commission for positions exempt from the Personnel Act. The appropriations included in Sections and of this Act shall be transferred by the Director of the Budget to departments, institutions and agencies as may be required to increase salaries effective July,, for full-time permanent positions in accordance with the following provisions: () For granting a $0 annual salary increase to each permanent, fulltime position, () For adjusting Salaries of Job Classifications which are found by survey to be below the salaries for comparable competitive job classifications. 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. Any full-time, permanent employee whose salary is paid partially from the General Fund and partially from other sources shall receive a salary increase from the General Fund appropriation only in the proportion that his salary is paid from the General Fund. 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 year - notwithstanding the granting of the legislative salary increase. The salary ranges for all employees shall be increased, so far as the minimum and maximum is concerned, by the amount of $0, 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,. Sec... The appropriations made to the State Board of Education for Salary Increases of School Bus Mechanics and for Property and Cost Control Clerks under the Nine Month School Fund shall be used to increase salaries effective July,, for full-time, permanent positions, in accordance with the following provisions: () For granting a $0 annual salary increase to each permanent, full-time school bus mechanic, and () for granting a $0 annual salary increase to each permanent, full-time Property and Cost Control Clerk. Any full-time, permanent employee whose salary is paid partially from State funds and partially from local funds shall receive a salary increase from this appropriation only in the proportion that his salary is paid from State funds. EFFECTIVE

12 Sec. 0. The provisions of the Executive Budget Act, G.S. -, are re-enacted and shall remain in full force and effect, and are incorporated in this Act by reference. Sec.. 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.. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Sec.. This Act shall become effective on July,. In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the th day of June,.