NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 418

HOUSE BILL 716

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO JURY TRIALS IN THE HAYWOOD COUNTY RECORDER'S COURT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Haywood County is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to determine whether jury trials shall be permitted in the Haywood County Recorder's Court. It is the intent and purpose of this Act to place complete authority in said board to fix the policy with respect to whether jury trials shall be had in said court and said board may from time to time not only abolish jury trials but, having abolished jury trials, it is authorized to re-establish jury trials. When and if said board ever exercises the power herein given to abolish jury trials in said Haywood County Recorder's Court, and a request for a jury trial is made by any party to an action pending therein, such case shall immediately be transferred to the Superior Court of Haywood County.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of May, 1963.