NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 223

HOUSE BILL 242

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 7-186 RELATING TO RECORDERS' COURTS, AS THE SAME APPLIES TO SUCH COURT IN THE TOWN OF MOUNT HOLLY, GASTON COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 7-186 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"At the expiration of the current term of the Recorder of the Mount Holly Recorder's Court, authority to elect the Recorder and his successors thereafter shall be vested in the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Mount Holly. Recorders elected by the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Mount Holly shall serve for a term of two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. The Recorder and other officers of said court shall be compensated on a salary basis rather than a fee basis and the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Mount Holly shall have the exclusive authority to set the amount of the salaries of said Recorder and the other officers of said court."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only with respect to the Recorder's Court of the Town of Mount Holly in Gaston County.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect upon and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of April, 1959.