NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 237
HOUSE BILL 356 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 7A OF CHAPTER 7 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF WARRANTS AND RECEIPTS BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN BURKE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 7‑134.6 is hereby amended by striking out in line 2 thereof the word "Burke".
Sec. 2. The Clerk of Superior Court of Burke County shall cause to be printed, at the expense of the county, warrants and receipt books for the use of justices of the peace and shall from time to time issue the same to the justices of the peace.
Sec. 3. Each justice of the peace shall issue a receipt to every person paying a fine, fee, cost or other item in a criminal case and shall retain a duplicate thereof.
Sec. 4. Each law enforcement officer shall, upon serving a criminal warrant for an offense committed in Burke County, hand to the defendant a duplicate copy of said warrant at the time of said service.
Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. This Act shall become effective from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of April, 1959.