NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 228

HOUSE BILL 273

AN ACT AMENDING G. S. 7-113 AS TO THE NUMBER OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE TO BE ELECTED IN YANCEY COUNTY AND PROVIDING FOR REMOVAL OF SUCH JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR CAUSE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That G. S. 7-113 be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided that at every general election for members of the General Assembly there shall be elected in each township of Yancey County, one justice of the peace, who shall hold office for a term of two years, from and after the first Monday in December next following his election."

Sec. 2. Any justice of the peace in Yancey County, whether elected by the people or appointed by the General Assembly or by the Resident Judge of the Superior Court, may, after due notice and hearing, be removed from office by the Resident Judge for misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, or other good cause.

Sec. 3. This Act shall apply to Yancey County only.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of April, 1959.