NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 851

HOUSE BILL 1046

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 7-104 BY AUTHORIZING ADDITIONAL SUBSTITUTE JUDGES IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 7-104 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided that whenever, in the opinion of the judge, the need exists, the judge may, by order entered and filed with the Clerk, appoint one or more attorneys at law to act as additional substitute judges. Such order of appointment shall set forth the specific time for which any such additional substitute judge shall serve, and for such period of time and such sessions specified, said additional substitute judge shall have the powers of a judge of said court. It is further provided that such additional substitute judge shall receive such compensation, on a per diem basis, as shall be determined by the Board of County Commissioners of Mecklenburg County and the City Council of the City of Charlotte."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to Mecklenburg 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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

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