NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 1335

HOUSE BILL 1354

AN ACT RELATING TO THE MAYOR'S COURT IN THE TOWN OF WHITEVILLE, COLUMBUS COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Recorder's Court of Columbus County sitting in the Town of Whiteville shall, in addition to its other jurisdiction, have original and concurrent jurisdiction, as the case may be, of all offenses committed within the corporate limits of the Town of Whiteville which are now or may hereafter be given to justices of the peace under the Constitution and general laws of North Carolina, including all offenses of which the mayor or other municipal court now has jurisdiction.

Sec. 2. Warrants and other legal processes issued by officials in the Town of Whiteville may be issued by a justice of the peace and made returnable to the County Recorder's Court sitting in the Town of Whiteville.

Sec. 3. The governing body of the Town of Whiteville and the County Commissioners of Columbus County shall be authorized to determine by agreement the apportionment of court costs between the Town of Whiteville and the County of Columbus in those cases in the Recorder's Court of Columbus County wherein the warrants or other legal processes are issued by officials of the Town of Whiteville.

Sec. 4. This Act shall apply only to Columbus County.

Sec. 5. Sections 22 and 23 of Chapter 267 of the Private Laws of 1891, Chapter 591 of the Public Laws of 1907, Chapter 143 of the Public and Private Laws of 1908, Chapter 667 of the Session Laws of 1953, and all other laws or clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1959.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of June, 1959.