A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to restore the method for determining the senior resident superior court judge for a district so that the senior resident judge is the judge who has the most continuous service as a superior court judge.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑41.1(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	There shall be one and only one senior resident superior court judge for each district or set of districts as defined in subsection (a) of this section, who shall be:
(1)	Where there is only one regular resident superior court judge for the district, that judge; and
(2)	Where there are two or more regular resident superior court judges for the district or set of districts,  the judge who, from among all the regular resident superior court judges of the district or set of districts, has the most continuous service as a regular resident superior court judge; provided if two or more judges are of equal seniority, the oldest of those judges shall be the senior regular resident superior court judge."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law, but any senior resident superior court judge seated on that date who would not qualify to be senior resident under G.S. 7A‑41.1(b), as amended by this act, shall continue to serve as senior resident superior court judge until that judge vacates the seat.