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.