NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 957

SENATE BILL 233

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE SALARIES OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA AND THE JUDGES OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 7‑3 is hereby amended by rewriting the Section to read as follows:

"G.S. 7‑3.  Salaries of Chief Justice and Associate Justices. The salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina shall be twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) per annum, and the salary of each of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of North Carolina shall be nineteen thousand dollars ($19,000.00) per annum, payable monthly."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 7‑42, as the same appears in the 1959 Supplement to the General Statutes, is hereby amended by striking out the words and figures "twelve thousand dollars ($12,000.00)" in line 2 and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "fourteen thousand five hundred dollars ($14,500.00)".

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1961.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1961.