GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

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HOUSE BILL 214

Short Title:        Raise Mandatory Retirement Age for Judges.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Stevens, Bryan, Floyd, and D. Hall (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site.
Referred to:	Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House.

March 12, 2015

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to raise the mandatory retirement age for judges and justices of the General Court of Justice.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑4.20 reads as rewritten:

"§ 7A‑4.20.  Age limit for service as justice or judge: exception.

No justice or judge of the General Court of Justice may continue in office beyond the last day of the monthcalendar year in which hethe judge attains his seventy‑secondor her seventy‑fifth birthday, but justices and judges so retired may be recalled for periods of temporary service as provided in Subchapters II and III of this chapter."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 135‑57(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      Any member who is a justice or judge of the General Court of Justice shall be automatically retired as of the first day of the calendar monthyear coinciding with or next following the later of January 1, 1974, or histhe judge's attainment of his seventy‑secondor her seventy‑fifth birthday; provided, however, that no judge who is a member on January 1, 1974, shall be forced to retire under the provisions of this subsection at an earlier date than the last day that he is permitted to remain in office under the provisions of G.S. 7A‑4.20."

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2015, and applies to justices and judges holding office on or after that date.