NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 519

SENATE BILL 83

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 95-87 BY RAISING THE STATE MINIMUM WAGE TO TWO DOLLARS AND THIRTY CENTS PER HOUR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 95-87 as it appears in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2C of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended on line 2 by deleting the words and figures "two dollars ($2.00) per hour" and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "two dollars and thirty cents ($2.30) per hour beginning July 1, 1977, and two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per hour beginning on the same day that the minimum wage as set by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, equals or exceeds two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per hour."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1977.