NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 730

HOUSE BILL 375

 

 

AN ACT TO DIVIDE THE TENTH SOLICITORIAL DISTRICT INTO TWO DISTRICTS AND TO TRANSFER CHATHAM COUNTY FROM THE FOURTH SOLICITORIAL DISTRICT TO THE NEW DISTRICT THEREBY CREATED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 7‑68 as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement to Volume IB of the General Statutes is hereby amended by striking out lines 59 and 60 of said Section and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

"In conformity with the Constitution, Article IV, Section 23, the solicitorial districts shall be constituted and numbered as follows:".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 7‑68 is hereby further amended by deleting the word "Chatham" from line 69 thereof relating to the counties composing the fourth solicitorial district.

Sec. 3.  Lines 82 and 83 of G.S. 7‑68 relating to the counties composing the tenth solicitorial district are hereby amended by rewriting them to read as follows:

"The tenth solicitorial district shall be composed of the County of Durham."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 7-68 is hereby further amended by inserting immediately after the paragraph relating to the composition of the tenth solicitorial district, and immediately before the paragraph relating to the composition of the eleventh solicitorial district a new paragraph to read as follows:

"The tenth‑A solicitorial district shall be composed of the following counties: Alamance, Orange, Chatham, Person."

Sec. 4 1/2.  G.S. 7‑68 as the same appears on line 15 on page 29 of the 1959 Cumulative Supplement to Volume IB of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding the word Granville between the words Bertie and Halifax.

Sec. 5.  G.S. 7‑40 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"The State shall be divided into thirty Superior Court judicial districts and twenty‑four solicitorial districts as set out in G.S. 7‑68."

Sec. 6.  The Governor of North Carolina shall appoint the solicitor for solicitorial district No. 10‑A to serve until the general election of 1962.

Sec. 7.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 8.  This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1961.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1961.