NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1221

SENATE BILL 1049

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF JUDICIAL OFFICIALS THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION THEREFOR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-41, as found in the 1979 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1B, is amended in the table so that the total number of full-time assistant district attorneys for the indicated judicial districts read as follows:

"Judicial District                                                  Number of Full-Time

Assistant District Attorneys

7                                                                           6

13                                                                         4

16                                                                         7

Sec. 2.  (a) G.S. 7A-133, as found in the 1979 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1B, is amended in the table so that the quotas of magistrates for the indicated counties read as follows:

County                                                               Magistrates

Minimum - Maximum

Mecklenburg                                                      15 - 26

Stokes                                                               2 - 4

(b) The additional magistrate position for Mecklenburg County established in subsection (a) of this section shall be filled by a graduate from a four-year accredited college.

Sec. 3.  New deputy clerk of court positions are created and allocated to the clerks of Superior Court in the numbers and to the counties as follows:

Alamance                                 2

Bladen                                      1

Burke                                       1

Columbus                                 1

Duplin                                      1

Forsyth                                     2

Nash                                        1

Orange                                     1

Pitt                                           2

Robeson                                   1

Sampson                                  1

Tyrrell                                      1

Union                                       2

Vance                                      1

Wake                                       2.

Sec. 4.  New assistant clerk of court positions are created and allocated to the clerks of Superior Court in the numbers and to the counties as follows:

Chatham                                   1

Durham                                    1

Nash                                        1.

Sec. 5.  New secretarial positions are created and allocated to the district attorneys in the districts and in the number as follows:

District                                     Secretaries

3                                                 1

7                                                 l.

Sec. 6.  It is the understanding of the General Assembly that pursuant to Chapter 1077 of the 1979 Session Laws the North Carolina Courts Commission is authorized to make continuing studies of the structure, organization, jurisdiction, procedures and personnel, including the office of the public defender, of the Judicial Department and of the General Court of Justice and to make recommendations to the General Assembly to facilitate the administration of justice.

Sec. 7.  In addition to all other appropriations, there is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department for the new positions created by this act the sum of four hundred twenty-six thousand one hundred ninety-three dollars ($426,193) for the 1980‑81 fiscal year.

Sec. 8.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1980.