NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 95
SENATE BILL 76

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 9-15(a) TO CLARIFY THE RIGHT OF COUNSEL TO QUERY PROSPECTIVE JURORS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 915(a) is rewritten to read as follows: "The court, and any party to an action, or his counsel of record shall be allowed, in selecting the jury, to make direct oral inquiry of any prospective juror as to the fitness and competency of any person to serve as a juror, without having such inquiry treated as a challenge of such person, and it shall not be considered by the court that any person is challenged as a juror until the party shall formally state that such person is so challenged."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of March, 1973.