A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the mandatory retirement age for judges and justices of the General Court of Justice and for magistrates, and to allow judges, justices, and magistrates to serve until the end of the calendar year in which they attain the age of 75.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑4.20 reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A‑4.20.  Age limit for service as justice or judge: exception.
No justice or judge of the General Court of Justice may continue in office beyond the last day of December of the year in which the justice or judge attains his or her seventy‑fifth birthday, but justices and judges so retired may be recalled for periods of temporary service as provided in Subchapters II and III of this chapter."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 7A‑170(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	No magistrate may continue in office beyond the last day of December of the year in which the magistrate reaches the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges of the General Court of Justice specified in G.S. 7A‑4.20."
SECTION 3.  G.S. 135‑57(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Any member who is a justice or judge of the General Court of Justice shall be automatically retired as of January 1 of the calendar year following the member's attainment of his or her seventy‑fifth birthday."
SECTION 4.  This act is effective December 1, 2015, and applies to justices, judges, and magistrates holding office or elected or appointed on or after that date.