NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 766

SENATE BILL 325

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 9-5 TO FIX THE COMPENSATION OF JURORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF HALIFAX COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 9-5, as the same presently appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided, however, that in Halifax County all jurors summoned for service in the Superior Court shall receive as compensation for their services an amount per day to be fixed by the board of county commissioners but which shall not be less than eight dollars ($8.00) nor more than ten dollars ($10.00) per day. In addition, all jurors in Halifax County shall receive a travel allowance of eight cents (8¢) per mile while coming to the county seat and returning home, the distance to be computed by the usual route of public travel; provided, that this allowance shall be paid on the basis of one round trip per day for each day on which attendance is required."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed; provided, however, no part of Chapter 310 of the 1965 Session Laws is repealed hereby and this Act shall become inoperative on December 1, 1968.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1965.