NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 629

SENATE BILL 296

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1093 OF THE 1949 SESSION LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO THE CITY COURT OF RALEIGH.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 1093 of the 1949 Session Laws is hereby amended as follows:

(a)       By inserting a comma in lieu of the period at the end of Section 18 and adding the following:

"except that the City Council may expressly authorize a substitute judge to serve on such other occasions, and in that event the compensation mutually agreed upon shall be paid by the City of Raleigh."

(b)       By adding at the end of Section 14 the following:

"The City Council of the City of Raleigh may appoint an assistant prosecuting attorney of the City Court of Raleigh who shall be paid such compensation as may be fixed by the City Council and who shall serve at the pleasure of the City Council. The assistant prosecuting attorney shall have the same qualifications and authority as the prosecuting attorney and shall perform such of the functions of the prosecuting attorney as he may be directed to perform by the prosecuting attorney."

(c)       By deleting the last paragraph of Section 16 and the amendments thereto contained in Chapter 470 of the 1951 Session Laws, and Chapter 340 of the 1957 Session Laws, and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"The Judge of the City Court of Raleigh shall be paid by the City of Raleigh a salary of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) per annum, payable in equal monthly or semimonthly installments."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1961.