GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 226

Short Title:  Expand Judicial Divisions.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Winner; Allran, Ballance, Barker, Block, Bryan, Cobb, Daniel, Daughtry, Ezzell, Johnson of Cabarrus, Johnson of Wake, Martin of Guilford, Odom, Sands, Simpson, Soles, Staton, Swain, and Taft.
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Referred to:  Judiciary II.
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February 21, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO EXPAND THE NUMBER OF SUPERIOR COURT JUDICIAL DIVISIONS, SO AS TO REDUCE TRAVEL WHILE MAINTAINING ROTATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 7A-41(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The counties of the State are organized into judicial divisions and superior court districts, and each superior court district has the counties, and the number of regular resident superior court judges set forth in the following table, and for districts of less than a whole county, as set out in subsection (b) of this section:
Superior
Judicial	Court 	No. of Resident
Division	District	Counties	    Judges

First	1	Camden, Chowan,	2
Currituck,
Dare, Gates,
Pasquotank, 
Perquimans
First	2	Beaufort, Hyde,	1
Martin,
Tyrrell, Washington
First	3A	Pitt	1
Second	3B	Carteret, Craven,	1
Pamlico
Second	4A	Duplin, Jones, 	1
Sampson
Second	4B	Onslow	1
Second	5	New Hanover, 	2
Pender
First	6A	Halifax	1
First	6B	Bertie, Hertford,	1
Northampton
First	7A	Nash	1
First	7B	(part of Wilson,	1
part of Edgecombe,
see subsection (b))
First	7C	(part of Wilson,	1
part of Edgecombe,
see subsection (b))
Second	8A	Lenoir and Greene	1
Second	8B	Wayne	1
Fourth	9	Franklin, Granville, 	2
Person, 
Vance, Warren
Fourth	10A	(part of Wake,	1
see subsection (b))
Fourth	10B	(part of Wake,	2
see subsection (b))
Fourth	10C	(part of Wake,	1
see subsection (b))
Fourth	10D	(part of Wake,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	11	Harnett, Johnston, 	1
Lee
Third	12A	(part of Cumberland, 	1
see subsection (b))
Third	12B	(part of Cumberland,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	12C	(part of Cumberland,	2
see subsection (b))
Third	13	Bladen, Brunswick,	1
Columbus
Fourth	14A	(part of Durham,	1
see subsection (b))
Fourth	14B	(part of Durham,	3
see subsection (b))
Fourth	15A	Alamance	1
Fourth	15B	Orange, Chatham	1
Third	16A	Scotland, Hoke	1
Third	16B	Robeson	2
Fifth	17A	Caswell, Rockingham	1
Sixth	17B	Stokes, Surry	1
Fifth	18A	(part of Guilford,	1
see subsection (b))
Fifth	18B	(part of Guilford,	1
see subsection (b))
Fifth	18C	(part of Guilford,	1
see subsection (b))
Fifth	18D	(part of Guilford,	1
see subsection (b))
Fifth	18E	(part of Guilford,	1
see subsection (b))
Sixth	19A	Cabarrus	1
Fifth	19B	Montgomery, 	1
Randolph
Sixth	19C	Rowan	1
Fifth	20A	Anson, Moore, 	1
Richmond
Fifth	20B	Stanly, Union	1
Sixth	21A	(part of Forsyth,	1
see subsection (b))
Sixth	21B	(part of Forsyth,	1
see subsection (b))
Sixth	21C	(part of Forsyth,	1
see subsection (b))
Sixth	21D	(part of Forsyth,	1
see subsection (b))
Sixth	22	Alexander, Davidson,	2
Davie, Iredell
Sixth	23	Alleghany, Ashe, 	1
Wilkes, Yadkin
Eighth	24	Avery, Madison,	1
Mitchell, 
Watauga, Yancey
Seventh	25A	Burke, Caldwell 	1
Seventh	25B	Catawba	1
Seventh	26A	(part of Mecklenburg,	2
see subsection (b))
Seventh	26B	(part of Mecklenburg,	2
see subsection (b))
Seventh	26C	(part of Mecklenburg,	2
see subsection (b))
Seventh	27A	Gaston	2
Seventh	27B	Cleveland, Lincoln	1
Eighth	28	Buncombe	2
Eighth	29	Henderson,	1
McDowell, Polk,
Rutherford,
Transylvania
Eighth	30A	Cherokee, Clay,	1
Graham, Macon,
Swain
Eighth	30B	Haywood, Jackson	1"
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1990.