GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1994

CHAPTER 6

SENATE BILL 176

AN ACT TO ALLOW A DISTRICT COURT JUDGESHIP TO BE ACTIVATED IN DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT 10, BECAUSE APPROVAL UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT IS NOT REQUIRED IN THAT DISTRICT, AND IN DISTRICT 30 WHERE APPROVAL HAS BEEN OBTAINED, AND TO DEAL WITH THE CASE OF FURTHER PARTIAL PRECLEARANCE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 200.6(c) of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:

"(c)      Subsections (a) and (b) of this section become effective November 1, 1993, or fifteen days after the date upon which those subsections are approved under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, whichever is later. later, except that as to the additional district court judge in District Court District 10 authorized by subsections (a) and (b) of this section, those subsections become effective March 1, 1994."

Sec. 2.  Section 200.6(c) of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws, as amended by Section 1 of this act, reads as rewritten:

"(c)      Subsections (a) and (b) of this section become effective November 1, 1993, or fifteen days after the date upon which those subsections are approved under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, whichever is later, except that as to the additional district court judge judges in District Court District 10 Districts 10 and 30 authorized by subsections (a) and (b) of this section, those subsections become effective March 1, 1994. If additional judges authorized by subsection (a) of this section, but not all the judges authorized by that subsection, are approved under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, then as to those additional judges, subsections (a) and (b) of this section become effective 15 days after the date of approval."

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of March, 1994.

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives