NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 35

HOUSE BILL 130

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLES 24 OF CHAPTER 7 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA AND CHAPTER 385, SESSION LAWS OF 1957, RELATING TO RECORDER'S COURT IN THE CITY OF BELMONT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The quoted portion of Section 1 of Chapter 385, Session Laws of 1957, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"That if and when a Recorder's Court for the City of Belmont is established under the provisions of this Article, some suitable person who may be an attorney at law and who shall be of good moral character, shall be elected by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Belmont as Recorder of said Court to serve for a term of two (2) years and until his successor is appointed and qualified, and the Board of Commissioners shall have full power and authority to select and elect the said Recorder, and each successive Recorder biennially thereafter. The said Recorder shall be elected by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Belmont within thirty (30) days from the creation and establishment of said Court. If a vacancy occurs in the office of Recorder at any time, the same shall be filled by the election of a successor for the unexpired term by the governing body of the City of Belmont, at a regular or special meeting called for that purpose; provided, that before entering upon the discharge of their duties hereunder, the Recorder, the Vice-Recorder and the prosecuting attorney, who may be elected under the provisions of this Article, shall take and subscribe before some person authorized to administer oaths, the oath required of Judge and Solicitors of the Superior Court; provided, that the governing body of such city is hereby authorized to provide a schedule of fees to be charged by said Recorder."

Sec. 2. G. S. 7-203, as it appears in the 1953 Recompiled Volume 1B of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"That if and when a Recorder's Court is established in the City of Belmont under the provisions of this Article, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Belmont shall elect some suitable person as prosecuting attorney at the same time, in the same manner and for the same term as is provided herein for Recorder and Vice-Recorder and vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as is provided for Recorder and Vice-Recorder."

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

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of March, 1965.