GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 967

Short Title:  District Ct. Judge/17B.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Sands.
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Referred to:  Judiciary II.
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April 19, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE IN JUDICIAL DISTRICT SEVENTEEN-B, AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Effective July 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
6	3	Northampton	5	6
Halifax	9	14	Roanoke
Rapids,
Scotland Neck
	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	3	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.  The judgeship created by this act shall be filled by a judge elected in the general election of November 1990, to serve a four-year term beginning the first Monday in December 1990.
Sec. 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of fifty-two thousand three hundred seventy dollars ($52,370) to implement this act.
Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.