NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 985

HOUSE BILL 275

AN ACT TO RAISE THE PAY OF GRAND AND CERTAIN PETIT JURORS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The first sentence of G.S. 7A-312 is deleted and the following language inserted in lieu thereof:

"A juror in the General Court of Justice including a petit juror, or a coroner's juror, but excluding a grand juror, or a juror in a special proceeding shall receive eight dollars ($8.00) per day, except that if any person serves as a juror for more than five days in any 24-month period, the juror shall receive thirty dollars ($30.00) per day for each day of service in excess of five days. A grand juror shall receive twelve dollars ($12.00) per day."

Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of two hundred seven thousand dollars ($207,000) for each of the fiscal years 1979-80 and 1980-81 in order to implement this act.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.