NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 925

HOUSE BILL 1090

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN ELECTION UPON THE QUESTION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COUNTY RECORDER'S COURT IN HARNETT COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. A County Recorder's Court for Harnett County may be established by an election on the question of such establishment as herein set out. The board of county commissioners of said county may pass a resolution if, in its opinion, such court shall be established, reciting such fact and calling an election to be held at the next biennial election for county officers; at which election there shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the county the question of establishing such court. The election shall be held, reported and recorded in the county under the laws governing general elections as near as may be applicable thereto. The result of the election shall be canvassed and reported in the same manner as the results of other elections in said county insofar as the same may be applicable. If a majority of the votes cast is in favor of the establishment of such court, it shall be established and not otherwise. The form of the ballot to be used at said election shall be as prescribed in G. S. 163-155(e).

Sec. 2. In the event a majority of the voters in Harnett County vote in favor of the establishment of a recorder's court, under Article 25, Chapter 7 of the General Statutes, the board of county commissioners shall by resolution provide that sessions of said court be held in the Towns of Angier, Lillington, Dunn and at such other towns or communities in the county as the board may deem advisable.

Sec. 3. In the event a County Recorder's Court is established in Harnett County, as herein provided, compensation of the judge of the recorder's court shall be fixed by the board at an annual salary of seventy-five hundred dollars ($7500.00) plus fifteen hundred dollars ($1500.00) as an expense allowance. The solicitor of said court shall receive as compensation for his services an annual salary of sixty-five hundred dollars ($6500.00) plus fifteen hundred dollars ($1500.00) as an expense allowance.

Sec. 3¼. This judge shall be elected for a four (4) year term and he shall assume office at the expiration of the term of the present judges.

Sec. 3½. All court costs received by the said court shall be distributed to the towns in which the court sits in the same proportion as the number of cases tried in each town in which the court sits.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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 16th day of June, 1961.