NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1235

SENATE BILL 1054

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A UNIFORM SOLICITORIAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 135 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting therein a new Article 4A to read as follows:

"Article 4A.

"A Uniform Solicitorial Retirement Act of 1974.

"§ 135-70.1.  Short title and purpose. — (a) This Article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Uniform Solicitorial Retirement Act of 1974'.

(b)        The purpose of this Article is to improve the administration of justice by attracting the most highly qualified talent available within the State to the position of District Attorney and Solicitor.

"§ 135-70.2.  Scope. — (a) This Article provides uniform retirement benefits for all solicitors and district attorneys of the General Court of Justice who are so serving on the effective date of this act, or who become such thereafter.

(b)        The Board of Trustees of the Teachers' and the State Employees' Retirement System shall administer the provisions of this Article. The benefits and entitlements that solicitors and district attorneys and their widows shall have shall be the same benefits and entitlements as are provided a judge of the district court division of the General Court of Justice pursuant to Article 4 of Chapter 135 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State of North Carolina for fiscal year 1974-75 the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to the Treasurer's Department for purposes of implementation of this act.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective retroactive to January 1, 1974.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of April, 1974.