NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 135
HOUSE BILL 200

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 386 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1909 AND CHAPTER 413 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1957, RELATING TO THE CIVIL JURISDICTION OF THE ROWAN COUNTY COURT AND TO THE SALARIES OF THE TRIAL JUSTICE AND PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FOR SAID COURT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 2, Chapter 386 of the Public Laws of 1909 is hereby amended by rewriting same to read as follows:
"Section 2. Said court shall have jurisdiction in civil actions and proceedings as follows:
(1)	Concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace in all civil actions, matters and proceedings which are now or may hereafter be given to justices of the peace in Rowan County.
(2)	Concurrent jurisdiction with the Superior Court of Rowan County in all civil actions, matters and proceedings founded on contract, wherein the sum demanded shall not exceed twenty‑five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) and wherein the title to real estate shall not be in controversy.
(3)	Concurrent jurisdiction with the Superior Court of Rowan County in all civil actions, matters and proceedings founded on tort, wherein the sum demanded or the value of the personal property in controversy does not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and wherein the title to real estate shall not be in controversy.
(4)	Concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace and with the Superior Court in attachment and claim and delivery proceedings, wherein the sum demanded or the value of the property claimed is within the jurisdiction of the court, as defined herein."
Sec. 2. Section 1, Chapter 413 of the Session Laws of 1957 is hereby amended by striking out the words and figures "Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00)" in line 4 and by inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "Seven Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($7,200.00)."
Sec. 3. Section 2, Chapter 413 of the Session Laws of 1957 is hereby amended by striking out the words and figures "Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00)" in line 4 and by inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00)
Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. This Act shall become effective July 1, 1961.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of March, 1961.