NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1420
SENATE BILL 1316

AN ACT TO ENUMERATE THE CAUSES FOR IMPEACHMENT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 123-5 is hereby rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:
"§ 123-5.  Causes for impeachment. — Each member of the Council of State, each justice of the General Court of Justice, and each judge of the General Court of Justice shall be liable to impeachment for the commission of any felony, or the commission of any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, or for malfeasance in office, or for willful neglect of duty."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1974.