NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 177

HOUSE BILL 173

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW A SUPERIOR COURT TO CONVENE TWO GRAND JURIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-622(b) is amended by adding thereto a second paragraph to read:

"The senior resident superior court judge of the district may impanel a second grand jury in any county of the district to serve concurrently with the first. The second grand jury shall be impaneled as provided in the first paragraph of this subsection. The court shall continue to have two grand juries until the senior resident superior court judge orders the second grand jury to terminate."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of March, 1979.