A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to create district court district 9C consisting of franklin, granville, vance, and warren counties and to appropriate funds for a judge to serve at‑large in that district.
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:

	District	Judges	County
	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	8	New Hanover
		Pender
	6A	3	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	2	Warren
		(part of Vance
		see subsection (b))
	9C	1	Franklin
		Granville
		Vance
		Warren
	10	16	Wake
	11	9	Harnett
		Johnston
		Lee
	12	9	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	13	Guilford
	19A	4	Cabarrus
	19B	7	Montgomery
		Moore
		Randolph
	19C	5	Rowan
	20A	4	Stanly
		Anson
		Richmond
	20B	1	(part of Union
		see subsection (b))
	20C	2	(part of Union
		see subsection (b))
	21	9	Forsyth
	22	9	Alexander
		Davidson
		Davie
		Iredell
	23	4	Alleghany
		Ashe
		Wilkes
		Yadkin
	24	4	Avery
		Madison
		Mitchell
		Watauga
		Yancey
	25	9	Burke
		Caldwell
		Catawba
	26	18	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 judgeship established for District Court District 9C authorized by this act shall be filled by election in the 2008 election for a four‑year term commencing January 1, 2009.
SECTION 3.  G.S. 7A‑200 reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A‑200.  District and set of districts defined; chief district court judges and their authority.
(a)	In this section:
(1)	"District" means any district court district established by G.S. 7A‑133 which consists exclusively of one or more entire counties;
(2)	"Set of districts" means any set of two or more district court districts established under G.S. 7A‑133, none of which consists exclusively of one or more entire counties, but both or all of which include territory from the same county or counties and together comprise all of the territory of that county or those counties; "set of districts" also means a set of three district court districts in four counties, one consisting of all four counties and the other two consisting of one or two entire counties and parts of another county; and
(3)	"Chief district court judge" means in the case of a set of districts, the chief district court judge for those districts, designated by the chief justice from among the district court judges for the districts in the set of districts.
(b)	Whenever by law a duty is imposed upon the chief district court judge, it means for a set of districts the chief district court judge designated under subsection (a)(3) of this section."
SECTION 4.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of eighty thousand eight hundred twenty dollars ($80,820) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to fund the additional district court judgeship authorized by this act.
SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2009, but applies to the 2008 election as provided in the terms of the act.