NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION
CHAPTER 1243
SENATE BILL 1009
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR NEW POSITIONS FOR COURT PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT IN VARIOUS COUNTIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. In addition to any other appropriations there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts for fiscal year 1978-79 the sum of two hundred fifty thousand eight hundred eighty dollars ($250,880) for new deputy clerks of court at the designated salary and assigned to the clerks of superior court in the numbers and to the counties as follows:
Beaufort 1 at $8,960
Buncombe 1 at 8,960
Catawba 1 at 8,960
Forsyth 3 at 8,960
Greene 1 at 8,960
Guilford 5 at 8,960
Haywood 1 at 8,960
Henderson 1 at 8,960
McDowell 1 at 8,960
Mecklenburg 5 at 8,960
Moore 1 at 8,960
Transylvania 1 at 8,960
Wake 5 at 8,960
Wilkes 1 at 8,960
Sec. 1.1. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars ($24,500) for fiscal year 1978-79 which sums together with appropriations made by Chapter 802, Session Laws of 1977 and by appropriations made by the 1977 General Assembly, Second Session 1978, are to be used for additional deputy clerks and clerical equipment to be allocated as follows: one additional deputy clerk each for Bladen, Columbus, and Sampson Counties.
Sec. 2. In addition to any other appropriations, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts for fiscal year 1978-79 the sum of fifteen thousand six hundred twenty-four dollars ($15,624) for new assistant clerks of court at the designated salary and assigned to the clerk of superior court in the numbers and to the counties as follows:
Alleghany 1 at $7,812
Ashe 1 at 7,812
Sec. 3. In addition to any other appropriations, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts for fiscal year 1978-79 the sum of fifty‑four thousand dollars ($54,000) for new magistrates for the designated counties at the indicated salary:
Ashe 1 at $9,000
Avery 1 at 9,000
Gaston 1 at 9,000
Lincoln 1 at 9,000
Madison 1 at 9,000
Surry 1 at 9,000
G.S. 7A-133 is amended, in the table, so that the quotas of magistrates for the indicated counties are increased as follows:
"County Magistrates
Min. - Max.
Ashe 3 4
Avery 3 4
Gaston 11 19
Lincoln 4 6
Madison 4 5
Surry 5 8"
Sec. 4. In addition to any other appropriations, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts for fiscal year 1978-79 the sum of sixty-eight thousand one hundred fifty-six dollars ($68,156) for full-time assistant district attorneys at the designated salary and assigned to the district attorneys in the numbers and prosecutorial districts as follows:
District 15B 1 at $20,656
District 18 2 at 23,750
G.S. 7A-41 is amended, in the table, so that the total number of full-time assistant district attorneys for the indicated districts shall read as follows:
"District Number of Full-Time Assistant
District Attorneys
15B 3
18 12"
Sec. 5. In addition to any other appropriations, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of eleven thousand sixty‑four dollars ($11,064) for the fiscal year 1978-79 to be used for the salary for an investigatorial assistant for the District Attorney of District 15B.
Sec. 6. In addition to any other appropriations, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts for the fiscal year 1978-79 the sum of twenty-eight thousand three hundred seventy-two dollars ($28,372) for the salary of one district court judge for the 23rd District.
G.S. 7A-133 is amended, in the table, so that the total number of judges for the indicated districts will read as follows:
"District Judges
23 3"
Sec. 7. In addition to any other appropriations, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts for the fiscal year 1978-79 the sum of seven thousand four hundred seventy-six dollars ($7,476) for a secretary for the District Attorney's Office for the 16th Judicial District.
Sec. 8. In addition to any other appropriations, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts for the fiscal year 1978-79 the sum of seven thousand four hundred seventy-six dollars ($7,476) for a secretary for the District Attorney's office for the 18th District.
Sec. 9. In addition to any other appropriations, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts for the fiscal year 1978-79 the sum of fourteen thousand nine hundred fifty-two dollars ($14,952) for two secretaries for the District Attorney's Office for the 26th Judicial District.
Sec. 10. This act shall become effective July 1, 1978.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1978.