NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 891

HOUSE BILL 955

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

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law the following provisions shall apply to the selection of officers and employees indicated:

(1)       A jailer shall be appointed by the sheriff of the county.

(2)       A sheriff's office deputy, who shall be in addition to any deputies presently authorized, may be appointed by the sheriff.

(3)       All deputies and assistants to the Clerk of Superior Court and the Clerk of the Stokes County Recorder's Court shall be appointed by the Clerk of the Superior Court.

(4)       Deputies of the register of deeds shall be appointed by the register of deeds.

Sec. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law the compensation for the officials and employees of Stokes County listed below shall be as indicated:

(1)       The chairman and members of the board of county commissioners shall each receive seven hundred dollars ($700.00) per year.

(2)       The chairman and members of the board of education shall each receive seven hundred dollars ($700.00) per year.

(3)       The deputy sheriff appointed as provided in Section 1 (2) of this Act shall receive a salary of three hundred dollars ($300.00) per month.

(4)       The jailer shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per month, and in addition shall receive a turnkey fee of one dollar ($1.00), and shall receive fifty cents (50¢) per meal furnished to each prisoner confined in the jail.

(5)       The assistant jailer shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per month.

(6)       Election registrars shall receive seventeen dollars and fifty cents ($17.50) for each day on which they perform duties in connection with any primary or general election; election judges shall receive twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) for each day they are engaged in election duties.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1965.