NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 749

SENATE BILL 744

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET TO CONTINUE EXPENDITURES FOR THE OPERATION OF STATE GOVERNMENT AT THE LEVEL IN EFFECT ON JUNE 30, 1981.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The Director of the Budget is authorized to continue to allocate funds for expenditure for current operations by State departments, institutions and agencies at a level not to exceed the level at which those operations were funded as of June 30, 1981. To the extent necessary to implement this authorization, funds currently available in the appropriate State funds and in cash balances, federal receipts, and departmental receipts shall be considered appropriated by the General Assembly. This authorization shall remain in effect until ratification of the current operations appropriations act for the 1981-83 biennium, at which time that act shall become effective and shall govern expenditures. Upon ratification of the current operations appropriations act, the Director of the Budget shall adjust allocations to give effect to that act from July 1, 1981. The authorization of this act also shall apply to expenditures under the control of the State Auditor and State Treasurer.

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1981.