GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 7

Short Title:  Divide District Court 6.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Ballance.
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Referred to:  Judiciary II.
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January 12, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO DIVIDE DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT 6 THE SAME WAY AS SUPERIOR COURT DISTRICT 6 HAS BEEN DIVIDED, AND ADD A NEW JUDGE IN DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT 6B.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Effective September 1, 1989, G.S. 7A-133 reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A-133. Numbers of judges by districts; numbers of magistrates and additional seats of court, by counties.
Each district court district shall have the numbers of judges and each county within the district shall have the numbers of magistrates and additional seats of court, as set forth in the following table:
Additional
Magistrates	Seats of
District	Judges	County	 Min.-Max.	Court

1	3	Camden	1	2
Chowan	2	3
Currituck	1	2
Dare	3	5
Gates	2	3
Pasquotank	3	4
Perquimans	2	3
2	3	Martin	5	8
Beaufort	4	5
Tyrrell	1	3
Hyde	2	4
Washington	3	4
3	7	Craven	7	10	Havelock
Pitt	10	12	Farmville,
Ayden
Pamlico	2	3
Carteret	5	8
4	5	Sampson	6	8
Duplin	9	11
Jones	2	3
Onslow	8	11
5	5	New Hanover	6	10
Pender	4	6
													6A	2	Halifax	9	14	Roanoke
						Rapids,
						Scotland Neck
	6B	2	Northampton	5	6
			Bertie	4	5
			Hertford	5	6
7	5	Nash	7	10	Rocky Mount
Edgecombe	4	6	Rocky Mount
Wilson	4	6
8	5	Wayne	5	8	Mount Olive
Greene	2	4
Lenoir	4	7	La Grange
9	4	Person	3	4
Granville	3	7
Vance	3	5
Warren	3	4
Franklin	3	6
10	10	Wake	12	17	Apex,
Wendell,
Fuquay-Varina,
Wake Forest
11	5	Harnett	7	11	Dunn
Johnston	10	12	Benson and
Selma
Lee	4	6
12	5	Cumberland	10	17
13	4	Bladen	4	6
Brunswick	4	7
Columbus	6	8	Tabor City
14	5	Durham	8	12
15A	3	Alamance	7	9	Burlington
15B	3	Orange	4	8	Chapel Hill
Chatham	3	6	Siler City
16A	2	Scotland	3	5
Hoke	4	5
16B	5	Robeson	8	16	Fairmont,
Maxton,
Pembroke,
Red Springs,
Rowland,
St. Pauls
17A	3	Caswell	2	5
Rockingham	4	9	Reidsville,
Eden,
Madison
17B	2	Stokes	2	5
Surry	5	8	Mt. Airy
18	9	Guilford	20	26	High Point
19A	4	Cabarrus	5	9	Kannapolis
Rowan	5	10
19B	3	Montgomery	2	4
Randolph	5	8	Liberty
20	5	Stanly	5	6
Union	4	6
Anson	4	5
Richmond	5	6	Hamlet
Moore	5	8	Southern
Pines
21	7	Forsyth	3	15	Kernersville
22	5	Alexander	2	3
Davidson	7	10	Thomasville
Davie	2	3
Iredell	4	8	Mooresville
23	3	Alleghany	1	2
Ashe	3	4
Wilkes	4	6
Yadkin	3	5
24	3	Avery	3	4
Madison	4	5
Mitchell	3	4
Watauga	4	6
Yancey	2	4
25	6	Burke	4	7
Caldwell	4	7
Catawba	6	9	Hickory
26	12	Mecklenburg	15	26
27A	5	Gaston	11	20
27B	3	Cleveland	5	8
Lincoln	4	6
28	4	Buncombe	6	15
29	4	Henderson	4	6
McDowell	3	4
Polk	3	4
Rutherford	6	8
Transylvania	2	4
30	3	Cherokee	3	4
Clay	1	2
Graham	2	3
Haywood	5	7	Canton
Jackson	3	4
Macon	3	4
Swain	2	3."
Sec. 2.  (a) Effective September 1, 1989, Nicholas Long and Harold P. McCoy, or their successors, shall be district court judges for district court district 6A.  Effective September 1, 1989, Robert E. Williford, or his successors, shall be district court judge for district court district 6B.
(b) The additional District Court Judge authorized for district court district 6B by Section 1 of this act shall be appointed by the Governor for a term beginning September 1, 1989, and expiring the first Monday in December of 1990.  A successor shall be elected in the 1990 general election for a four-year term.
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective September 1, 1989.