NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 821

HOUSE BILL 954

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 110-22 WITH RESPECT TO THE JUVENILE COURT OF STOKES COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 110-22, as the same appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is amended as the same may apply to Stokes County, by rewriting it to read as follows:

"G. S. 110-22. [Suitable Caption]. (a) There shall be established in Stokes County a separate part of the Superior Court of the District for the hearing of cases coming within the provisions of this Article. Such part of the Superior Court shall be called the Juvenile Court of Stokes County. The Clerk of the Superior Court of Stokes County shall maintain, suitably segregated from other files and records which the Clerk of Superior Court may preserve and maintain as Clerk of the Superior Court and Clerk of the Stokes County Recorder's Court, and protected and confidential according to the requirements of other provisions of law with respect to the files and records of Juvenile Courts, including, but not restricted to, the provisions of Chapter 110 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, all of the files and records of that part of the Superior Court which comprises the Juvenile Court of Stokes County.

"(b)      The Clerk of the Superior Court of Stokes County shall continue to serve ex officio as Judge of the Juvenile Court in the hearing of cases coming within the provisions of this Article, in which cases the child or children concerned therein reside in or are at the time within such county, until such time, and from time to time, as the Resident Superior Court Judge of the Seventeenth District may exercise the authority conferred upon him by the provisions of subsection (c) of this Section.

"(c)      The Resident Superior Court Judge of the Seventeenth District shall have the right, in his discretion, at any time to appoint some other competent and qualified individual to serve as Judge of the Juvenile Court of Stokes County in lieu of the Clerk of the Superior Court. The judge so appointed shall serve at the will of the Resident Superior Court Judge of the Seventeenth District, and the said Resident Judge shall have the authority, from time to time, to terminate the term of the Judge of the Juvenile Court of Stokes County and to direct, from time to time, that the Clerk of the Superior Court, or any other suitable person, shall serve as Judge of the Juvenile Court of Stokes County, for such period of time and for such term, if any, as the resident judge may prescribe. From the county funds of Stokes County, the resident judge may direct that the Judge of the Juvenile Court of Stokes County shall be paid a reasonable allowance for expenses, or actual reasonable and necessary expenses in connection with the discharge of his duties as Judge of the Juvenile Court of Stokes County, and such additional sum by way of compensation as the Resident Judge of the Superior Court shall deem just and proper. The Resident Judge of the Superior Court may from time to time by order provide that the Judge of the Juvenile Court of Stokes County may elect to serve without salary or other compensation, except for expenses, or without salary and reimbursement for expenses.

"(d)      Proceedings in all cases within the jurisdiction and purview of the Juvenile Court as provided by law may be initiated before the Judge of the Juvenile Court of Stokes County, and in hearing and disposing of all cases and matters within the jurisdiction of the court, the judge thereof shall comply with all the requirements and conform to the procedures provided in Article 2 of Chapter 110 of the General Statutes pertaining to Juvenile Courts generally."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June-, 1965.