NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 485

HOUSE BILL 837

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE TERM OF THE JUDGE OF THE DURHAM COUNTY CIVIL COURT FROM TWO YEARS TO FOUR YEARS AND TO PROVIDE FOR CHANGES IN THE METHOD OF APPOINTMENT AND THE DETERMINATION OF THE AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION OF A SUBSTITUTE JUDGE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Durham County is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a suitable person as Judge to preside over the Durham County Civil Court. The said Judge shall hold his office for a term of four (4) years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Any vacancy occurring in the office of Judge of the Durham County Civil Court shall be filled by the board of county commissioners for the remainder of the unexpired term of the Judge for whom such replacement is appointed.

Sec. 2. If the Judge of the Durham County Civil Court is unable to hold court on account of sickness, absence, disqualification, or for any other cause, the Board of County Commissioners of Durham County shall appoint some other qualified person, who shall take the same oath as the Judge regularily appointed, and who shall act as substitute Judge and shall be vested with all the powers and duties of the regularly appointed Judge of the Durham County Civil Court.

Sec. 3. The Board of County Commissioners of Durham County shall, at the time of fixing the amount of compensation to be paid to the regularly appointed Judge, fix the rate of compensation to be paid for the substitute Judge, and which shall be payable out of the funds of the county.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 21st day of May, 1963.