NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1119

SENATE BILL 125

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 7A-41 TO AUTHORIZE ADDITIONAL RESIDENT SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES AND ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEYS IN VARIOUS JUDICIAL DISTRICTS, TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARD JURY CHARGES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-41 is amended to authorize an additional resident superior court judge in the third, fourth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, fourteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty‑second, and twenty-sixth judicial districts, so that the quota of resident superior court judges for these districts in the table in G.S. 7A-41 will read as follows:

Judicial District                                                      No. of Resident Judges

                                    3                                                                                  2

                                    4                                                                                  2

                                    8                                                                                  2

                                  10                                                                                  4

                                  12                                                                                  3

                                  14                                                                                  3

                                  19                                                                                  3

                                  20                                                                                  2

                                  22                                                                                  2

                                  26                                                                                  5

Sec. 2.  The additional judges authorized in Section 1 of this act shall be appointed by the Governor and shall take office on July 1, 1977. The successors of the Governor's appointees shall be chosen in the manner prescribed by law for other resident superior court judges in the general election of 1978 to serve for the unexpired portion of the term of eight years which began as of January 1, 1977, and their successors shall be chosen thereafter in the manner and serve for terms as prescribed for other resident superior court judges.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 7A-41 is amended, effective as of July 1, 1977, to increase the number of assistant district attorneys for the third, fourth, fifth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty‑third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh-A, judicial districts, so that the quota of assistant district attorneys for these districts in the table in G.S. 7A-41 will read as follows:

Judicial District                                                    No. of Full-Time Assistant

                                                                                 District Attorneys

                                    3                                                                                  7

                                    4                                                                                  7

                                    5                                                                                  6

                                    8                                                                                  6

                                  10                                                                                12

                                  12                                                                                  9

                                  13                                                                                  3

                                  14                                                                                  6

                                  16                                                                                  5

                                  18                                                                                10

                                  19                                                                                  7

                                  20                                                                                  7

                                  21                                                                                  8

                                  22                                                                                  5

                                  23                                                                                  2

                                  24                                                                                  2

                                  25                                                                                 6

                                  26                                                                                15

                                  27                                                                                  5 for Prosecutorial

                                                                                                                           District 27A and 3

                                                                                                                           for Prosecutorial

                                                                                                                           District 27B

Sec. 4.  G.S. 7A-41 is amended by changing the figure designating the number of resident judges in the fifth judicial district from "1" to "2". This amendment does not authorize an additional resident superior court judge for the fifth judicial district. It changes the table so as to reflect the additional judge provided by Session Laws 1969, Chapter 1171.

Sec. 5.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of ninety-seven thousand forty-six dollars ($97,046) for each fiscal year of the 1977-1979 biennium to provide an assistant district attorney for the following judicial districts: five, twenty-one, twenty-five and twenty-seven-A.

Sec. 6.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts twenty-two thousand dollars ($22,000) during fiscal year 1977-78 and twenty‑two thousand dollars ($22,000) during fiscal year 1978-79 to provide for drafting, staffing, and other reasonable expenses of developing updated standard jury charges covering various legal situations which arise in court (pattern jury instructions).

Sec. 7.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.