NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 420

SENATE BILL 358

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE JURISDICTION, IN CRIMINAL MATTERS, OF THE MUNICIPAL RECORDER'S COURT OF THE TOWN OF LIBERTY SO AS TO INCLUDE THE AREA WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF STALEY IN RANDOLPH COUNTY.

WHEREAS, by joint resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Liberty, and the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Staley, the General Assembly has been requested to extend jurisdiction in criminal matters of the Municipal Recorder's Court of the Town of Liberty to include all of the area within the corporate limits of the Town of Staley; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Liberty and the Town of Staley are located approximately four miles distant from each other, but criminal jurisdiction of offenses committed in the Town of Staley is presently in the Randolph County Recorder's Court in Asheboro, approximately fifteen miles distant from the Town of Staley; and

WHEREAS, the citizens of the Town of Staley will be benefited by being permitted to have criminal offenses tried in the Municipal Recorder's Court of the Town of Liberty: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The criminal jurisdiction of the Municipal Recorder's Court of the Town of Liberty be and the same is hereby extended so as to include all of the area within the corporate limits of the Town of Staley in Randolph County.

Sec. 2. The Municipal Recorder's Court of the Town of Liberty is hereby authorized and empowered to hear and determine all criminal matters arising within the corporate limits of the Town of Staley to the same effect and with the same authority as if such criminal matters arose within the corporate limits of the Town of Liberty.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 15th day of May, 1963.