NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 1284
HOUSE BILL 1722

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL PUBLIC DEFENDERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-465 is amended by inserting between the present third and fourth paragraphs a new paragraph to read as follows:
"Effective January 1, 1981, the office of public defender is established in the third judicial district."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 7A-466 is amended by rewriting the first sentence of the section to read:
"The public defender in the third, twelfth, eighteenth, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh-A judicial districts shall be appointed by the Governor from a list of not less than two and not more than three names nominated by written ballot of the attorneys resident in the district who are licensed to practice law in North Carolina."
Sec. 3.  Monies to fund the office established by Section 1 of this act will be taken from appropriations already made for counsel for the indigent appointed pursuant to G.S. 7A‑450 et seq.
Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1981.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1980.