A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT providing that service as a magistrate shall be included when determining the longevity pay of a clerk of superior court and appropriating funds for that purpose.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑101(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	In lieu of merit and other increment raises paid to regular State employees, a clerk of superior court shall receive as longevity pay an amount equal to four and eight‑tenths percent (4.8%) of the clerk's annual salary payable monthly after five years of service, nine and six‑tenths percent (9.6%) after 10 years of service, fourteen and four‑tenths percent (14.4%) after 15 years of service, and nineteen and two‑tenths percent (19.2%) after 20 years of service. Service shall mean service in the elective position of clerk of superior court, as an assistant clerk of court and as a supervisor of clerks of superior court with the Administrative Office of the Courts and shall not include service as a deputy or acting clerk. Service shall also mean service as a justice, judge, or magistrate of the General Court of Justice or as a district attorney."
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of thirty-seven thousand thirty-three dollars ($37,033) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year and the sum of forty-one thousand four hundred eleven dollars ($41,411) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.