NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 102

SENATE BILL 196

AN ACT TO INCLUDE TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY WITHIN THE COUNTIES WHICH ARE EMPOWERED TO ESTABLISH GENERAL COUNTY COURTS UNDER ARTICLE 30 OF CHAPTER 7 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, AND TO VALIDATE ACTS OF THE TRANSYLVANIA GENERAL COUNTY COURT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 1 of the Public Laws of 1931 be and the same is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. The provisions of Article 30 of Chapter 7 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, entitled "General County Courts", is hereby made applicable to Transylvania County.

Sec. 3. All acts of the General County Court of Transylvania County, relating to both civil and criminal matters, since its organization by act of the county commissioners dated September 5, 1961, are hereby ratified and declared to be valid.

Sec. 4. The action of the county commissioners in establishing the General County Court for Transylvania County for the trial of civil and criminal cases pursuant to Article 30, Chapter 7 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as shown by Resolution dated September 5, 1961, is hereby declared to be valid and of the same force and effect as if the said Article had been applicable to Transylvania County at the time of the passage of the said Resolution.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. 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 28th day of March, 1963.