GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1390

Short Title:  Funds for District Court Judge.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Odom.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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May 23, 2000

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE IN DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT ONE AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THAT PURPOSE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.(a) G.S. 7A-133(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Each district court district shall have the numbers of judges as set forth in the following table:

District	Judges	County 

	1	5	Camden
	Chowan
Currituck
Dare
Gates
Pasquotank
Perquimans
2	4	Martin
Beaufort
Tyrrell 
Hyde
Washington
3A	5	Pitt
3B	5	Craven
Pamlico
Carteret
4	7	Sampson
Duplin
Jones
Onslow
5	7	New Hanover
Pender
6A	2	Halifax
6B	3	Northampton
Bertie
Hertford
7	7 	Nash
	Edgecombe
Wilson
8	6	Wayne
Greene
Lenoir
9	4	Granville
(part of Vance
see subsection (b))
Franklin
9A	2	Person
Caswell
9B	1	Warren
(part of Vance
see subsection (b))
10	13 	Wake
11	7	Harnett
Johnston
Lee
12	9	Cumberland
13	6 	Bladen
Brunswick
Columbus
	14	6	Durham
15A	4	Alamance
15B	4	Orange
Chatham
16A	3	Scotland
Hoke
16B	5	Robeson
17A	2 	Rockingham
17B	3	Stokes
Surry
18	12	Guilford
19A	4	Cabarrus
19B	6	Montgomery
Moore
Randolph
19C	4	Rowan
20	7	Stanly
Union
Anson
Richmond
21	8	Forsyth
22	8	Alexander
Davidson
Davie
Iredell
23	4	Alleghany
Ashe
Wilkes
Yadkin
24	4	Avery
Madison
Mitchell
Watauga
Yancey
25	8	Burke
Caldwell
Catawba
26	16	Mecklenburg
27A	6	Gaston
27B	4	Cleveland
Lincoln
28	5	Buncombe
29	6	Henderson
McDowell
Polk
Rutherford
Transylvania
30	5	Cherokee
Clay
Graham
Haywood
Jackson
Macon
Swain."
Section 1.(b)	Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 7A-142, the Governor shall appoint an additional district court judge for District Court District 1 as authorized by Section 1 of this act.  That judge's successor shall be elected in the 2002 election for a four-year term commencing on the first Monday in December 2002.
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of one hundred thirty-three thousand four hundred twenty-nine dollars ($133,429) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year for an additional district court judge in District Court District 1, as set forth in Section 1 of this act.
Section 3.  Section 1 of this act becomes effective September 15, 2000, or 15 days after the date upon which that section is approved under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, whichever is later.  The remainder of this act becomes effective July 1, 2000.