NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 430

HOUSE BILL 779

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. CHAPTER 9 TO FACILITATE THE JUROR SELECTION PROCESS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 9-2 is amended by adding the following sentence at the end of the first paragraph thereof:

"In counties in which a different panel of jurors is summoned for each day of the week, there is no limit to the number of names that may be placed on the juror list."

Sec. 2. G.S. 9-6(b) is amended by adding the following sentence at the end thereof:

"In districts that have a trial court administrator, the chief district judge may assign the duty of passing on applications for excuses from jury service to the administrator. In all cases concerning excuses, the clerk of court or the trial court administrator in districts that have a trial court administrator, shall notify prospective jurors of the disposition of their excuses."

Sec. 3. G.S. 9-2.1. is amended by inserting in the first sentence, after "having" and before "electronic" the words "access to".

Sec. 4. G.S. 9-6.1, as amended by Chapter 9, Session Laws of 1981, is further amended by deleting in both places the words "judge designated by him pursuant to G.S. 9-6(b)", and inserting in each place in lieu thereof the words "judge or trial court administrator designated by him pursuant to G.S. 9-6(b)".

Sec. 5. G.S. 9-6.1 is amended by inserting in the last sentence following the word "notified" the following phrase: "by the trial court administrator or the clerk of court."

Sec. 6. This act shall become effective October 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of May, 1981.