NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 497

HOUSE BILL 653

AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 1227 OF THE 1953 SESSION LAWS ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF EACH COUNTY IN THIS STATE TO FIX THE SALARIES OR OTHER COMPENSATION OF ALL ELECTIVE AND APPOINTIVE COUNTY OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES DRAWING COMPENSATION FROM SAID COUNTIES", AND AS HERETOFORE AMENDED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Section 5-A of Chapter 1227, Session Laws of 1953, be and is hereby amended by:

(a)       Substituting a comma for the period at the end of the first paragraph of Section 5-A and adding thereafter the word "Catawba";

(b)       Adding a new paragraph to the said Section 5-A reading as follows:

"Provided however, that the County Commissioners of Catawba County shall during the month of February, immediately prior to the day upon which an election of county officers is scheduled by law to be held, fix a minimum salary for the term of each officer to be elected at said election or elections;"

(c)       Adding another paragraph to the said Section 5-A, reading as follows:

"All laws and clauses of laws, whether general, local or private passed prior to the ratification of this Act amending said Chapter 1227 of the 1953 Session Laws, and in conflict with the provisions of these amendments to the said Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 12th day of May, 1959.