NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 371

HOUSE BILL 359

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WATAUGA COUNTY TO FIX THE SALARIES OF THE SHERIFF AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS AND TO AMEND G. S. 162-7 RELATING TO FEES TO BE CHARGED BY THE SHERIFF IN WATAUGA COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Watauga County is hereby authorized to increase the salary of the Sheriff of Watauga County from thirty-six hundred dollars ($3600.00) to forty-five hundred dollars ($4500.00) per annum, payable in twelve equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county. This salary shall be in addition to fees and commissions which are now or may hereafter be allowed by law.

Sec. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Watauga County is hereby authorized to appropriate annually from the general fund of the county the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) for the employment of a chief deputy sheriff and eighteen hundred dollars ($1800.00) for the employment of an additional deputy sheriff to be selected and commissioned by the Sheriff of Watauga County,

Sec. 3. G. S. 162-7, as the same appears in the 1957 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Watauga. The Sheriff of Watauga County is authorized to charge the following fees:

For serving claim and delivery proceedings, each defendant ......................... $3.00

For serving summons, each defendant ................................................................ 2.00

For serving warrant, each defendant .................................................................... 2.50

For serving execution ........................................................................................... 2.00

For serving subpoenas, each ................................................................................ 1.00

For serving capias, each person ........................................................................... 2.50

For serving attachment proceedings, each defendant ........................................ 4.00

For serving ejectment proceedings, each defendant .......................................... 3.00

For serving order, each defendant ....................................................................... 2.00

For making arrest .................................................................................................. 2.50

For summoning juror, each .................................................................................... .60

For posting notices ................................................................................................. .60

For taking bond ..................................................................................................... 1.00

For laying off homestead ..................................................................................... 5.00

Commission allowed under execution, 5% of the amount

For serving sci fa, each person ............................................................................ 2.00

For serving notice ................................................................................................. 2.00

For summoning appraisers to allot homestead or personal

property exemption ......................................................................................... 5.00

For serving warrant for search and seizure of intoxicating

liquors ............................................................................................................... 4.00

For serving search warrant for stolen property .................................................. 4.00

The said fees to be charged by the Sheriff of Watauga County shall be collected and retained by the sheriff's department."

Sec. 4. Section 1 of Chapter 39, Session Laws of 1951, Chapter 224, Session Laws of 1955, and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of April, 1959.