NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 325

HOUSE BILL 274

 

 

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE FEE OF THE SHERIFF OF SURRY COUNTY FOR COLLECTIONS ON EXECUTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 257 of the Public-Local Laws of 1923, entitled "An Act to regulate the fees of the Sheriff of Surry County" is hereby amended by striking out in the second line of the twelfth unnumbered paragraph thereof the words "one hundred dollars" and substituting therefor the words "five hundred dollars".

Sec. 2. G. S. 162-7, entitled "Local modification as to fees of sheriffs.", is hereby amended by inserting therein following the unnumbered paragraph relating to Robeson County and preceding the unnumbered paragraph relating to Wayne County, a new paragraph relating to Surry County, to read as follows:

"Surry. The Sheriff of Surry County shall collect as his fee, a commission on collection of executions as follows:

5% on first $500.00;

2½% on all amounts collected over $500.00; and the like commission on all moneys which may be paid to the plaintiff by the defendant while the execution is in the hands of the sheriff."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of April, 1959.