CHAPTER 1085 AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 2 OF CHAPTER 143 OF THE GEN- ERAL STATUTES SO AS TO REDUCE FROM SEVEN TO FIVE THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS ON THE STATE PERSONNEL COUNCIL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Subsection -2 of G. S. 143-35 is stricken out and the following is substituted in lieu thereof: (2) State Personnel Council. There is hereby created and established a State Personnel Council (hereinafter referred to as Council) for the purpose of advising and assisting the State Personnel Director in preparing, formulating and promulgating rules and regulations, determining and fixing job classifications and descriptions, job specifications and minimum employment standards, standards of salaries and wages, and any and all other matters pertaining to employment under this Article. The State Personnel Council shall consist of five members to be appointed by the Governor of North Carolina on or before July 1, 1953 The Council shall have the power to designate the member of said Council who shall act as chairman thereof. At least one member of the Council shall be an individual of recognized standing in the field of personnel administration and who is not an employee of the State subject to the provisions of this Article; at least one member of the Council shall be an individual actively engaged in the management of a private business or industry; not more than one member of the Council shall be an individual chosen from the employees of the State subject to the provisions of this Article. The Council shall meet at least one time in each calendar quarter of the year, or upon call of the Governor, or of the Director, or a member of the Council, or at the request of the head of any department or agency when necessary to consider any appeal provided for hereunder. Three members of the Council shall constitute a quorum. Notice of meetings shall be given members of the Council by the Director who shall act as secretary to the Council. The members of the Council shall each receive seven dollars ($7.00) per day including necessary time spent in traveling to and from their place of residence within the State to the place of meeting while engaged in the discharge of the duties imposed hereunder, and his necessary subsistence and traveling expenses. The member of the Council who is an employee of the State, as provided hereunder, shall not receive any per diem for his services but such member shall receive traveling expenses and subsistence, while engaged in the discharge of his duties hereunder, at the same rate and in the same amount as provided for State employees without any deduction for loss of time from his employment. One of the Council members shall be appointed by the Governor to serve for a term of two years. One member shall be appointed to serve for a term of three years. Three members shall be appointed to serve for a term of four years and upon the expiration of the respective terms, the successors of said members shall be appointed for a term of four years each thereafter. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring in any 993 of the appointments made by the Governor prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term. A member of the State Personnel Council shall not be considered a public officer, or as holding office within the meaning of Article XIV, Section 7, of the Constitution of this State, but such member shall be a commissioner for a special purpose. The Governor may, at any time after notice and hearing, remove any Council member for gross inefficiency, neglect of duty, malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office.