NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 1070

HOUSE BILL 1002

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE JURISDICTION OF THE RECORDER'S COURT OF THE TOWN OF BESSEMER CITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Recorder's Court of the Town of Bessemer City in Gaston County is hereby granted exclusive, original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors committed within Crowders Mountain Township of said county; provided, however, that said court shall have only original, concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace as to offenses within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace committed within said township, but outside the corporate limits of the Town of Bessemer City.

Sec. 2. Said court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace to hear and bind over to the Superior Court all persons charged with any felony committed within Crowders Mountain Township but outside the city limits of the Town of Bessemer City.

Sec. 3. The board of town commissioners shall appoint a vice-recorder to serve as the judge of said court in the absence of the regular recorder who shall have all the power and authority conferred upon the regular recorder during his absence and the vice-recorder shall be paid the same as that of the regular recorder during such time as he shall actually serve, which amount shall be deducted from the salary due the regular recorder.

Sec. 4. The jurisdiction herein conferred shall be in addition to any and all jurisdiction conferred by any other statutes.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1959.