HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR, 937

parable duties, experience, responsibilities and authority
shall be paid in accordance with the standard salary sched-
ule. In establishing rates of pay, the State Employees
Standard Salary Board shall give consideration to expe-
rience, the prevailing rates of pay for the services per-
formed, and for comparable services in public and private
employment, living costs, maintenance or other benefits
received by employees, and the State's financial condition
and policies. Such pay plan shall take effect and shall
have the force and effect of law when approved by the
Governor. Amendments thereto may, from time to time,
be recommended by the Board and when approved by the
Governor shall have the force of law in the same manner
as if they had been originally incorporated in the schedule.
Each employee in the Classified and in the Unclassified
Service shall be paid at one of the rates set forth in the
pay plan for the grade or class of positions in which he
is employed. The pay plan shall be used by the
Governor in the preparation and submission of his
budget.

The said Board shall, when necessary, visit the various
State agencies to determine whether or not an employee
is properly classified, whether or not his duties conform
with his classification, and such other information as may
be helpful in preparing said pay plan, and to that end the
Board may require any State employee to appear before
it and give evidence.

The said State Employees Standard Salary Board is
hereby authorized, whenever in its judgment the same is
warranted on account of the cost of living and the general
employment conditions in the particular area, to approve
increases in salaries of employees of County Welfare
Boards created by the State Department of Public Welfare,
up to but not exceeding twenty per centum (20%) over
the salary fixed for such positions by said Board, subject
to the approval of the County Commissioners of the par-
ticular county where salaries are proposed to be increased,
such increases to be prorated on the same basis as the basic
salaries of such employees.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and being passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by
three-fifths of all members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 27, 1945.