NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1133

SENATE BILL 454

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 4, CHAPTER 779 OF THE 1955 SESSION LAWS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That Section 4 of Chapter 779 of the 1955 Session Laws be and the same is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. Whenever, in the judgment of the Judge of the Municipal Court, the need exists for a substitute judge, the Senior Resident Judge of the 18th Judicial District may appoint some competent person to act as substitute judge for periods of one calender week or more. The Judge of the Municipal Court may, for periods of less than one calendar week, appoint some competent person to act as substitute judge. Such orders appointing a substitute judge shall be entered and filed with the clerk and shall set forth the specific session or sessions of said court and the specific time for which said substitute judge shall serve, and for such period of time and such sessions specified, said substitute judge shall have the powers of the judge of said court."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of June, 1959.