H.B. 12

Jan 30, 2013

HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK

 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

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HOUSE DRH10030-LL-28  (01/02)

 

 

 

Short Title:        Increase Retirement Age for Judges.

(Public)

Sponsors:

Representative Daughtry.

Referred to:

 

 

 

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to increase the mandatory retirement age for judges and justices of the General Court of Justice.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A-4.20 reads as rewritten:

"§ 7A-4.20.  Age limit for service as justice or judge: exception.

No justice or judge of the General Court of Justice may continue in office beyond the last day of the month in which hethe judge attains his seventy-secondor her seventy-fifth birthday, but justices and judges so retired may be recalled for periods of temporary service as provided in Subchapters II and III of this chapter."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 135-57(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      Any member who is a justice or judge of the General Court of Justice shall be automatically retired as of the first day of the calendar month coinciding with or next following the later of January 1, 1974, or histhe judge's attainment of his seventy-secondor her seventy-fifth birthday; provided, however, that no judge who is a member on January 1, 1974, shall be forced to retire under the provisions of this subsection at an earlier date than the last day that he is permitted to remain in office under the provisions of G.S. 7A-4.20."

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2013.