NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 407

SENATE BILL 51

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE OFFICE SPACE AND EXPENSES FOR THE GOVERNOR-ELECT AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR-ELECT FROM THE DATE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE ELECTION UNTIL THE DATE OF INAUGURATION.

 

WHEREAS, following the General Election for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, it is necessary that the organization and performance of duties connected with their respective positions requires these officials to maintain offices in Raleigh, and to incur expenses in connection with the operation thereof, and

WHEREAS, in the interim between the General Election and the Inauguration of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, the expenses of maintaining and operating such offices are heavy, and, although these are incurred in the performance of duties for the State of North Carolina, they are not borne by funds of State, and

WHEREAS, it is fitting that the State should provide its Governor-Elect and Lieutenant Governor-Elect with such offices and staffs as are necessary to conduct their duties for the State's benefit after their election and before their inauguration: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The Department of Administration, upon request of the Governor-Elect and Lieutenant Governor-Elect, made after the General Election for these respective offices, is empowered and directed to provide suitable office space and office staff for each such official for the period between the General Election and Inauguration.

Sec. 2.  The Department of Administration shall provide, for the fiscal years in which General Election and Inauguration of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall occur, such sums, not in excess of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500.00) for the Governor-Elect, and not in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) for the Lieutenant Governor-Elect, as may be necessary for the salary of the staffs and the payment of office expenses of each such official during such interim.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be effective from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of May, 1965.