NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 89
SENATE BILL 40

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPREME COURT TO PROMULGATE A CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT FOR THE GUIDANCE OF THE JUDGES OF THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. Chapter 7A, Article 3, is amended by inserting the following new section therein:
"§ G.S. 7A-14.  The Supreme Court is authorized, by rule, to prescribe standards of judicial conduct for the guidance of all justices and judges of the General Court of Justice.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of March. 1973.