NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 444

HOUSE BILL 612

AN ACT TO PROVIDE BETTER COURT FACILITIES FOR LENOIR COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That the Clerk of the Superior Court of Lenoir County, the President of the Lenoir County Bar Association and the Chairman of the Library Committee, as elected by the Bar Association, be, and they are hereby constituted custodians of the books, equipment, fixtures, and furniture of the Court Library, Judges' Chambers, Court Rooms and other Court facilities connected with them.

Sec. 2. All books, equipment, fixtures, and furniture of the Court Library, Judges' Chambers, Court Rooms, and other Court facilities connected with them shall be and remain the property of Lenoir County; and, the County is authorized and empowered to hold such property and to add to it by gift, donation, purchase, or otherwise, such books, equipment, fixtures and furniture as may be deemed necessary and proper.

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Custodians to supervise and direct the creation, operation and maintenance of the Court facilities enumerated in Section 1, and to make reasonable rules and regulations for the government of the Court facilities.

Sec. 4. The sum of fifty cents (50¢) is hereby levied on each case docketed in the Superior Court of Lenoir County and the City of Kinston-Lenoir County Municipal Court to be taxed as part of the costs of Court except in those cases in which costs are not taxed. It will be the duty of the Clerks of the respective Courts to collect the additional costs and the Clerk of the City of Kinston-Lenoir County Municipal Court shall transmit the proceeds to the Clerk of Superior Court of Lenoir County.

Sec. 5. The Court Facilities Fund shall be placed in an account designated as the Court Facilities Fund and shall be administered by the Clerk of the Superior Court of Lenoir County, but purchases of the books, equipment, fixtures and furniture of the Court Library, Judges' Chambers, Court Rooms and other Court facilities connected with them, and the employment of personnel shall be made only upon the recommendations of two of the Custodians. All checks in the Court Facilities Fund account shall be drawn and signed by the Clerk or Assistant Clerk of the Superior Court of Lenoir County and it shall be his duty to keep a correct accounting of all receipts and disbursements.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act in any manner whatsoever are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. 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 16th day of May, 1961.