Title: S.L. 1995-51
Category: Session Law

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 51
HOUSE BILL 527

AN ACT TO DIVIDE SUPERIOR COURT DISTRICT 11 INTO DISTRICTS 11A AND 11B.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-41(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The counties of the State are organized into judicial divisions and superior court districts, and each superior court district has the counties, and the number of regular resident superior court judges set forth in the following table, and for districts of less than a whole county, as set out in subsection (b) of this section:
	Superior
Judicial	Court 	No. of Resident
Division	District	Counties	Judges

First	1	Camden, Chowan,	2
Currituck,
Dare, Gates,
Pasquotank, 
Perquimans
2	Beaufort, Hyde,	1
Martin,
Tyrrell, Washington
3A	Pitt	2
3B	Carteret, Craven,	2
Pamlico
4A	Duplin, Jones, 	1
Sampson
4B	Onslow	1
5	New Hanover, 	3
	Pender
6A	Halifax	1
6B	Bertie, Hertford,	1
	Northampton
7A	Nash	1
7B	(part of Wilson,	1
part of Edgecombe,
see subsection (b))
7C	(part of Wilson,	1
part of Edgecombe,
see subsection (b))
8A	Lenoir and Greene	1
8B	Wayne	1
Second	9	Franklin, Granville, 	2
	Vance, Warren
9A	Person, Caswell	1
10A	(part of Wake,	2
see subsection (b))
10B	(part of Wake,	2
	see subsection (b))
10C	(part of Wake,	1
	see subsection (b))
10D	(part of Wake,	1
	see subsection (b))
11A	Harnett,	1
	Lee
11B	Johnston	1
12A	(part of Cumberland, 	1
	see subsection (b))
12B	(part of Cumberland,	1
	see subsection (b))
12C	(part of Cumberland,	2
	see subsection (b))
13	Bladen, Brunswick,	2
	Columbus
14A	(part of Durham,	1
	see subsection (b))
14B	(part of Durham,	3
	see subsection (b))
15A	Alamance	2
15B	Orange, Chatham	1
16A	Scotland, Hoke	1
16B	Robeson	2
Third	17A	Rockingham	2
17B	Stokes, Surry	2
18A	(part of Guilford,	1
	see subsection (b))
18B	(part of Guilford,	1
	see subsection (b))
18C	(part of Guilford,	1
	see subsection (b))
18D	(part of Guilford,	1
	see subsection (b))
18E	(part of Guilford,	1
	see subsection (b))
19A	Cabarrus	1
19B	Montgomery, 	1
	Randolph
19C	Rowan	1
20A	Anson, Moore, 	2
	Richmond
20B	Stanly, Union	2
21A	(part of Forsyth,	1
see subsection (b))
21B	(part of Forsyth,	1
	see subsection (b))
21C	(part of Forsyth,	1
	see subsection (b))
21D	(part of Forsyth,	1
	see subsection (b))
22	Alexander, Davidson,	2
	Davie, Iredell
23	Alleghany, Ashe, 	1
Wilkes, Yadkin
Fourth	24	Avery, Madison,	1
Mitchell, 
Watauga, Yancey
25A	Burke, Caldwell 	2
25B	Catawba	2
26A	(part of Mecklenburg,	2
	see subsection (b))
26B	(part of Mecklenburg,	2
see subsection (b))
26C	(part of Mecklenburg,	2
see subsection (b))
27A	Gaston	2
27B	Cleveland, Lincoln	2
28	Buncombe	2
29	Henderson,	2
McDowell, Polk,
Rutherford,
Transylvania
30A	Cherokee, Clay,	1
Graham, Macon,
Swain
30B	Haywood, Jackson	1."
Sec. 2.(a)  The superior court judgeship allocated to new District 11A in Section 1 of this act shall be filled by the superior court judge from current District 11 who resides in Harnett County.  The term of that judge expires December 31, 1998.  That judge's successor shall be elected in the 1998 general election.
(b)	The superior court judgeship allocated to new District 11B in Section 1 of this act shall be filled by the superior court judge from current District 11 who resides in Johnston County.  The term of that judge expires December 31, 1998.  That judge's successor shall be elected in the 1998 general election.
Sec. 3.  Sections 1 and 2 of this act become effective October 1, 1995, or the date upon which those sections are approved under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, whichever is later.  The remainder of this act becomes effective October 1, 1995.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of April, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

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