NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 6

SENATE BILL 57

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND GENERAL STATUTES 7A-273 TO DELETE THE MAGISTRATE'S AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT PRELIMINARY HEARINGS IN MISDEMEANOR CASES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-273 is amended by deleting subsection (3), which authorizes magistrates to conduct preliminary hearings in misdemeanor cases, and by renumbering the succeeding subsections accordingly.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of February, 1973.