A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to divide district court district 19b into districts 19B and 19D.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  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:
	
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District 	Judges 	County
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1	5	Camden
		Chowan
		Currituck
		Dare
		Gates
		Pasquotank
		Perquimans
2	4	Martin
		Beaufort
		Tyrrell
		Hyde
		Washington
3A	5	Pitt
3B	6	Craven
		Pamlico
		Carteret
4	8	Sampson
		Duplin
		Jones
		Onslow
5	9	NewHanover
		Pender
6A	3	Halifax
6B	3	Northampton
		Bertie
		Hertford
7	7	Nash
		Edgecombe
		Wilson
8	6	Wayne
		Greene
		Lenoir
9	4	Granville
		(partofVance
		seesubsection(b))
		Franklin
9A	2	Person
		Caswell
9B	2	Warren
		(part of Vance see 
		subsection(b))
10	18	Wake
11	10	Harnett
		Johnston
		Lee
12	10	Cumberland
13	6	Bladen
		Brunswick
		Columbus
14	7	Durham
15A	4	Alamance
15B	5	Orange
		Chatham
16A	3	Scotland
		Hoke
16B	5	Robeson
17A	3	Rockingham
17B	4	Stokes
		Surry
18	14	Guilford
19A	4	Cabarrus
19B	 5	Montgomery
		
		Randolph
19C	5	Rowan
19D	3	Moore
20A	4	Stanly
		Anson
		Richmond
20B	1	(part of Union
		see subsection(b))
20C	2	(part of Union
		see subsection(b))
20D	1	Union
21	10	Forsyth
22A	5	Alexander
		Iredell
22B	6	Davidson
		Davie
23	4	Alleghany
		Ashe
		Wilkes
		Yadkin
24	4	Avery
		Madison
		Mitchell
		Watauga
		Yancey
25	9	Burke
		Caldwell
		Catawba
26	20	Mecklenburg
27A	7	Gaston
27B	5	Cleveland
		Lincoln
28	7	Buncombe
29A	3	McDowell
		Rutherford
29B	4	Henderson
		Polk
		Transylvania
30	6	Cherokee
		Clay
		Graham
		Haywood
		Jackson
		Macon
		Swain."
SECTION 2.  The district court judgeships established for District Court District 19B by Section 1 of this act shall be filled by the district court judges currently serving District Court District 19B who reside in Montgomery and Randolph Counties. The district court judgeships established for District Court District 19D by Section 1 of this act shall be filled by the district court judges currently serving District Court District 19B who reside in Moore County. 
The terms of four of those judges expire December 31, 2010. Those judges' successors shall be elected in the 2010 election. The terms of the other three judges expire December 31, 2012. Those judges' successors shall be elected in the 2012 election.
SECTION 3.  If Judge Neely's open seat is filled in the 2008 election by a resident of Moore County, the Governor shall appoint the additional district court judge authorized by Section 1 of this act to serve District 19B. If Judge Neely's seat is filled by a resident of Randolph County, the Governor shall appoint the additional district court judge authorized by Section 1 of this act to serve District 19D. The appointed judge shall serve a term expiring December 31, 2010, and the judge's successor shall be elected in the 2010 general election for a four‑year term commencing January 1, 2011.
SECTION 4.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of two hundred sixty‑one thousand six hundred sixty‑four dollars ($261,664) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective January 15, 2009.