NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 143

HOUSE BILL 134

 

 

AN ACT FIXING THE COMPENSATION OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, THE SHERIFF, THE CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT AND THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF JACKSON COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That the salaries of the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, the Sheriff, the Clerk of the Superior Court and the Register of Deeds of Jackson County be and they are each increased in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500.00) per annum over and above the compensation fixed for each of said officials by Section 1 of Chapter 1158, Session Laws of 1955. The salaries of each of said officials shall be paid from the general fund of the county in 12 equal monthly installments, and said salary increase for each of said officials shall be retroactive to January 1, 1959.

Sec. 1½. That, in addition to all other compensation now provided by law for the part time Commissioners of Jackson County, they shall be paid the sum of three dollars ($3.00) per month for each calendar month beginning with the month of January 1959. This payment to the part time commissioners shall be made from the general fund of the county in monthly installments, and said payments shall be retroactive to January 1, 1959.

Sec. 2. The Board of Commissioners of Jackson County now have the authority and power to increase the salary of nonelective employees of Jackson County. It is the sense of this Legislature that the nonelective employees of Jackson County whose salaries are wholly paid from county funds be given substantially the same percentage increase as is provided herein for the elective officers, and that this increase should be retroactive to January 1, 1959.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of March, 1959.