NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 159

SENATE BILL 210

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 16, SESSION LAWS OF 1957 RELATING TO THE GASTON COUNTY RURAL POLICE FORCE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 16 of the Session Laws of 1957 is hereby amended by changing in the title and the body of the act the words "rural police department", "rural police force", "rural police system" or similar words to read "Gaston County Police Force", wherever they appear therein, and to make such other internal changes so that all references therein to "rural police", "rural police department", "rural police force", "department" shall be changed to properly refer to the Gaston County Police Force.

Sec. 2. Chapter 16 of the Session Laws of 1957 is hereby amended by inserting after Section 1, a new section to read:

"Sec. 1.1. Wherever the words 'resident judge of the Superior Court' appear in this act the same shall be changed to read 'regular Superior Court Judge, with the longest tenure in office, residing in Gaston County, and if there be no Superior Court Judge residing in Gaston County, then the senior resident Superior Court Judge from the Judicial District'."

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of April, 1977.