GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1197*

Short Title:  Divide District Court 3.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Wainwright; Anderson, Bowman, Ethridge, Lilley, and Smith.
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Referred to:  Courts, Justice, Constitutional Amendments & Referenda.
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May 9, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO DIVIDE DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT 3 INTO DISTRICTS 3A AND 3B CONSISTENT WITH THE BOUNDARIES ESTABLISHED FOR SUPERIOR COURT AND PROSECUTORIAL DISTRICTS 3A AND 3B. 
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Effective September 1, 1991, 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
												3A	3	Pitt	10	12	Farmville
Ayden
3B	4	Craven	7	10	Havelock
Pamlico	2	3
Carteret	5	8
4	6	Sampson	6	8
Duplin	9	11
Jones	2	3
Onslow	8	11
5	6	New Hanover	6 	11
Pender	4	6
6A	2	Halifax	9	14	Roanoke Rapids,
Scotland Neck
6B	2	Northampton	5	6
Bertie	4	5
Hertford	5	6
7	6	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	5	Person	3	4
Granville	3	7
Vance	3	5
Warren	3	4
Franklin	3	6
10	11	Wake	12	17	Apex,
Wendell,
Fuquay-Varina,
Wake Forest
11	6	Harnett	7	11	Dunn
Johnston	10	12	Benson, Clayton
and Selma
Lee	4	6
12	6	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	10	Burlington
15B	3	Orange	4	9	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	10	Guilford	20	26	High Point
19A	2	Cabarrus	5	9	Kannapolis
19B	3	Montgomery	2	4
Randolph	5	8	Liberty
19C	2	Rowan	5	10
20	6	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	6	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	7	Burke	4	7
Caldwell	4	7
Catawba	6	9	Hickory
26	13	Mecklenburg	15	26
27A	5	Gaston	11	20
27B	4	Cleveland	5	8
Lincoln	4	6
28	5	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.  Effective September 1, 1991, David Leech, E. Burt Aycock, and James E. Martin, or their successors, shall be district court judges for district court district 3A.  Effective September 1, 1991, George Wainright, James Ragan, W. Lee Lumpkin, and H. Horton Roundtree, or their successors, shall be district court judges for district court district 3B.
Sec. 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of $150,376 for the 1991-92 fiscal year and the sum of $130,751 for the 1992-93 fiscal year to implement this act.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective September 1, 1991.