NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 141

HOUSE BILL 232

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE CIVIL JURISDICTION OF THE LEAKSVILLE TOWNSHIP RECORDER'S COURT IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The jurisdiction of the Leaksville Township Recorder's Court in Rockingham County in civil actions shall include the following:

(a)       Jurisdiction concurrent with that of the justices of the peace within the county;

(b)       Jurisdiction concurrent with the Superior Court in all actions founded on contract, wherein the amount involved exclusive of interest and costs does not exceed fifteen hundred dollars ($1500.00);

(c)       Jurisdiction concurrent with the Superior Court in actions not founded upon contract wherein the amount involved exclusive of interest and costs does not exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1500.00).

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of March, 1965.