NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 240

HOUSE BILL 491

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND GENERAL STATUTES 7A-100 TO PROVIDE FOR AN ACTING CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT WHEN THE CLERK DIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-100(a) is amended by adding the following sentence at the end thereof:

"In cases of death or resignation of the clerk, the senior regular resident superior court judge, pending appointment of a successor clerk, may appoint an acting clerk of superior court for a period of not longer than 30 days."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of April, 1973.