GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	2 

SENATE BILL 226
Judiciary II Committee Substitute Adopted 5/9/89

Short Title:  Expand Judicial Divisions.	(Public)
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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
First	3B	Carteret, Craven,	1
Pamlico
First	4A	Duplin, Jones, 	1
Sampson
First	4B	Onslow	1
First	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))
First	8A	Lenoir and Greene	1
First	8B	Wayne	1
Second	9	Franklin, Granville, 	2
Person, 
Vance, Warren
Second	10A	(part of Wake,	1
see subsection (b))
Second	10B	(part of Wake,	2
see subsection (b))
Second	10C	(part of Wake,	1
see subsection (b))
Second	10D	(part of Wake,	1
see subsection (b))
Second	11	Harnett, Johnston, 	1
Lee
Second	12A	(part of Cumberland, 	1
see subsection (b))
Second	12B	(part of Cumberland,	1
see subsection (b))
Second	12C	(part of Cumberland,	2
see subsection (b))
Second	13	Bladen, Brunswick,	1
Columbus
Second	14A	(part of Durham,	1
see subsection (b))
Second	14B	(part of Durham,	3
see subsection (b))
Second	15A	Alamance	1
Second	15B	Orange, Chatham	1
Second	16A	Scotland, Hoke	1
Second	16B	Robeson	2
Third	17A	Caswell, Rockingham	1
Third	17B	Stokes, Surry	1
Third	18A	(part of Guilford,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	18B	(part of Guilford,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	18C	(part of Guilford,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	18D	(part of Guilford,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	18E	(part of Guilford,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	19A	Cabarrus	1
Third	19B	Montgomery, 	1
Randolph
Third	19C	Rowan	1
Third	20A	Anson, Moore, 	1
Richmond
Third	20B	Stanly, Union	1
Third	21A	(part of Forsyth,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	21B	(part of Forsyth,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	21C	(part of Forsyth,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	21D	(part of Forsyth,	1
see subsection (b))
Third	22	Alexander, Davidson,	2
Davie, Iredell
Third	23	Alleghany, Ashe, 	1
Wilkes, Yadkin
Fourth 	24	Avery, Madison,	1
Mitchell,
Watauga, Yancey
Fourth	25A	Burke, Caldwell 	1
Fourth	25B	Catawba	1
Fifth	26A	(part of Mecklenburg,	2
see subsection (b))
Fifth	26B	(part of Mecklenburg,	2
see subsection (b))
Fifth	26C	(part of Mecklenburg,	2
see subsection (b))
Fifth	27A	Gaston	2
Fifth	27B	Cleveland, Lincoln	1
Fourth	28	Buncombe	2
Fourth	29	Henderson,	1
McDowell, Polk,
Rutherford,
Transylvania
Fourth	30A	Cherokee, Clay,	1
Graham, Macon,
Swain
Fourth	30B	Haywood, Jackson	1"
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1990.