NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 697
SENATE BILL 543

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 126-8 WITH REGARD TO THE AMOUNT OF VACATION LEAVE WHICH IS TO BE GRANTED TO EACH STATE EMPLOYEE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 126-8, as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting the first sentence to read as follows:
"The amount of vacation leave granted to each full-time State employee subject to the provisions of this Chapter shall be determined in accordance with a graduated scale established by the State Personnel Board which shall allow the equivalent rate of not less than two weeks' vacation per calendar year, prorated monthly, cumulative to at least 30 days."
Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act, no full-time State employee subject to the provisions of Chapter 126 of the General Statutes, as the same appears in the Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes, on the effective date of this act shall be allowed less than the equivalent of three weeks' vacation per calendar year, cumulative to at least 30 days.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1973.