NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 828

HOUSE BILL 1185

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND RULE 30 OF THE RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE TO ALLOW THE JUDGE, IN HIS DISCRETION, TO SHORTEN THE TIME OF NOTICE REQUIRED FOR THE TAKING OF A DEPOSITION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 1A-1 of the General Statutes, Rule 30, is hereby amended by deleting the period at the end of the final sentence of Rule 30(a), and adding the following:

", unless a judge in his discretion, after application with one-day minimum notice to other parties, shortens the time hereinabove set forth."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be in full force and effect on and after January 1, 1975, and shall apply to actions and proceedings pending on that date as well as to actions and proceedings commenced on and after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of January, 1974.