NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 843

HOUSE BILL 985

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 4, CHAPTER 779 SESSION LAWS OF 1959.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 4, Chapter 779, Session Laws of 1959 is rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 4a. Whenever, in the judgment of the Judge of the Municipal Court the need exists for a substitute judge, the Senior Resident Judge of the 18th Judicial District may appoint some competent person to act as substitute judge for periods of one calendar week or more. The Judge of the Municipal Court may, for periods of less than one calendar week, appoint some competent person to act as substitute or additional judge, or both. Such orders appointing a substitute or additional judge, or both, shall be entered and filed with the clerk and shall set forth the specific session or sessions of said court and specific time for which said substitute or additional judge, or both, shall serve, and for such period of time and such sessions specified, said substitute or additional judge, or both, shall have the powers of the judge of said court.

"The salary of the substitute and/or additional judge shall be computed by determining the daily salary for the regular judge by dividing his annual salary by three hundred sixty-five (365) days; the substitute and/or additional judge shall be paid an amount equal to this daily salary for the actual number of days he serves as such substitute and/or additional judge.

"Sec. 4b. Whenever, in the judgment of the Judge of the Municipal Court, the need exists for a substitute or additional solicitor, or both, the Judge of the Municipal Court may, for periods of less than one calendar week, appoint some competent person to act as substitute or additional solicitor, or both. Such orders appointing a substitute or additional solicitor, or both, shall be entered and filed with the clerk and shall set forth the specific session of said court and the specific time for which said substitute or additional solicitor, or both, shall serve, and for such period of time and such sessions specified, said substitute or additional solicitor, or both, shall have the powers of the solicitor of said court.

"The salary of the substitute and/or additional solicitor shall be computed by determining the daily salary for the regular solicitor and dividing his annual salary by three hundred sixty-five (365) ; the substitute and/or additional solicitor shall be paid an amount equal to this daily salary for the actual number of days he serves as such substitute and/or additional solicitor."

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

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of June, 1961.