The necessary funds to defray the cost of the bonuses for the officers or employees of the Legislature and such agencies whose operating expense budgets are chargeable to the General Fund shall be set aside annually in the Joint Resolution of the General Budget. The bonuses of the officers or employees of the public corporations and other public organizations, excluding the municipalities whose budgets are not financed from the General Fund, shall be paid from their own funds or from the special funds from which are defrayed the operating expenses of such organizations.
History —June 12, 1969, No. 34, p. 57, § 4.