NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 381

SENATE BILL 424

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE CERTAIN TECHNICAL AND EDITORIAL AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTERS 1, 3, 5, 8, 8A, 9, 11, AND 13 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES REQUIRED BY THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT ACT OF 1965, AS AMENDED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 5-6 is amended by deleting from the first two lines the words "justice of the peace," and the words "judge of a court inferior to the superior court,".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 5-8 is amended by deleting from subsection (1) the word "constable," and by deleting from subsection (6) the word "inferior".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 8-5 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 8-5.  Town ordinances certified. — In a trial in which the offense charged is the violation of a town ordinance, a copy of the ordinance alleged to have been violated, certified by the mayor, shall be prima facie evidence of the existence of such ordinance."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 8-55 is amended by deleting from lines one and two the words ", or justice of the peace, or mayor of a town"; by deleting from line seven the words "of the peace"; by deleting from line eight the word "mayor,"; by deleting from lines eight and nine the words "or to any constable of the town or township"; by deleting from line twelve the words "of the peace" and the word "mayor"; and by deleting from line eighteen the word "mayor".

Sec. 5.  G.S. 8-59 is amended by deleting the words "depending in the superior, criminal and inferior courts" from line two, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "pending in the trial divisions of the General Court of Justice".

Sec. 6.  G.S. 8-74 is amended by deleting the last sentence.

Sec. 7.  G.S. 8-83(10) is amended by deleting the word "justice's", and inserting in lieu thereof the word "magistrate's".

Sec. 8.  G.S. 8A-1 is amended by deleting from the last sentence the words "out of the general county funds" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "by the State".

Sec. 9.  G.S. 11-2 is amended by deleting from the first two lines the words "and justices of the peace,".

Sec. 10.  G.S. 11-7.1(a) is amended by deleting subsection "(3)" and by renumbering subsection "(4)", "(5)", and "(6)" thereafter to be subsections "(3)", "(4)", and "(5)" respectively.

Sec. 11.  G.S. 11-11 is amended by deleting the oath for "Constable" and the oath for "Justice of the Peace".

Sec. 12.  The following sections are amended as follows:

Section                         Delete                          Insert In Lieu Thereof               Where

G.S. 1-7                       "term"                                       "session"                       in line 5

1-13                             "term"                                       "session"                       in line 4

1-174                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 3

1-180.1                        "term"                                       "session"                       in lines 4,9, & 10

1-272                           "term time"                                "session"                       in line 2

1-273                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 3

1-279                           "term"                                       "session"                       in lines 2 and 3

1-281                           "term time"                                "session"                       in line 2

1-283                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 24

1-310                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 4

1-321                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 13

1-381                           "term"                                       "session"                       in lines 11 and 12

1-382                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 16

1-384                           "at term time"                            "during session"             in line 4

1-385                           "at term time"                            "during session"             in line 2

1-399                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 5

1-403                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 3

1-493                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 3

1-500                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 2

1-507.7                        "term"                                       "session"                       in line 2

1-507.8                        "term"                                       "session"                       in line 23

1-521                           "term"                                       "session"                       in lines 2 and 14

8-63                             "term"                                       "session"                       in lines 3 and 16

13-2                             "at term"                                   "in session"                   in line 5

13-3                             "term"                                       "session"                       in line 3

13-4                             "at term"                                   "in session"                   in line 2

13-6                             "term"                                       "session"                       in lines 6 and 16

13-7                             "term"                                       "session"                       in line 9

13-8                             "term"                                       "session"                       in line 10

13-9                             "term"                                       "session"                       in line 3

13-10                           "term"                                       "session"                       in line 9

Sec. 13.  G.S. 8-75 and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 14.  Partial invalidity. — If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared severable.

Sec. 15.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of May, 1971.