NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 389

HOUSE BILL 362

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE APPOINTMENT AND COMPENSATION OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF RICHMOND COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Richmond County shall receive a salary of seventy-eight dollars ($78.00) per month and the other members of the board of commissioners shall receive a salary of fifty-two dollars ($52.00) per month. In addition, members of the board shall receive a travel expense allowance of seven cents (7¢) per mile.

Sec. 2. The Clerk of the Superior Court of Richmond County shall receive an annual salary of seventy-eight hundred dollars ($7800.00), payable in equal monthly installments, and in addition thereto, the county commissioners shall, in accordance with G. S. 110-22, set the compensation to be received by the clerk in his capacity as judge of the juvenile court.

Sec. 3. The Sheriff of Richmond County shall receive an annual salary of seventy-eight hundred dollars ($7800.00), payable in equal monthly installments, and in addition, the sheriff shall be entitled to the same travel and expense allowances as are provided for deputy sheriffs.

Sec. 4. The Register of Deeds of Richmond County shall receive an annual salary of sixty-seven hundred sixty dollars ($6760.00), payable in equal monthly installments.

Sec. 4½. The Judge and the Solicitor of the Recorder's Court of Hamlet District, Richmond County and the Judge and Solicitor of the Richmond County Special Court shall each receive an annual salary of twenty-four hundred ninety-six dollars ($2496.00), payable in equal monthly installments. The salary paid to the Solicitor of the Recorder's Court of Hamlet District, Richmond County, shall be the total compensation paid the solicitor for performing his duties as solicitor and as ex officio clerk of said court.

Sec. 5. The board of county commissioners shall have full authority to set the number of deputies and employees, and their compensation and travel and expense allowances, who may be appointed or employed by the Clerk of the Superior Court, the sheriff, and the register of deeds, but the clerk, sheriff and the register of deeds shall have full authority to appoint and name the individual officers or employees in their respective offices.

Sec. 6. All salaries, compensation, and expense allowances provided for by this Act shall be paid out of the general fund of the county.

Sec. 7. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 8. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1959.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of April, 1959.