NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 440

HOUSE BILL 532

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 15A-622 TO AUTHORIZE SIX MONTHS' TERMS FOR GRAND JURORS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 15A-622(b) is amended by adding the following paragraph at the end thereof:

"In any county the senior resident superior court judge, if he finds that grand jury service is placing a disproportionate burden on grand jurors and their employers, may fix the term of service of a grand juror at six months rather than 12 months. In doing so, he shall prescribe procedures, consistent with this section, for replacement of half of the jurors of the grand jury or grand juries approximately every three months."

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of May, 1981.