GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

S	1 

SENATE BILL 680

Short Title:  Judge/Justice Age Limit.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Hyde.
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Referred to:  Judiciary I.
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April 18, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE AGE LIMITATIONS FOR SERVICE AS A JUSTICE OR JUDGE OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION OF THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 7A-4.20 reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A-4.20.  Age limit for service as justice or judge; exception.
No justice or judge of the appellate division of the General Court of Justice may continue in office beyond the last day of the month in which he attains his seventy-second birthday, and no judge of the superior court or district court division of the General Court of Justice may continue in office beyond the last day of the month in which he attains his seventieth birthday, but justices and judges so retired may be recalled for periods of temporary service as  provided in Subchapters II and III of this Chapter; provided, however, that any justice or judge of the appellate division of the General Court of Justice who attains his seventy-second birthday while serving a term of office as such a justice or judge may continue to serve as such a justice or judge until the completion of the term of office."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.