NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 10

HOUSE BILL 68

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 49 OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS OF 1939 RELATING TO THE SELECTION AND TERMS OF GRAND JURORS OF CATAWBA COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 49 of the Public-Local and Private Laws as enacted February 14, 1939, be, and the same is, amended by inserting, immediately subsequent to Section 4 thereof and immediately prior to Section 5 thereof, a new Section designated Section 4 (a), reading as follows:

"Section 4 (a).― That the Resident Judge or the Judge presiding over the Courts of the District, may at term time, or in chambers, discharge the said Grand Jury, in which event he shall cause a new Grand Jury to be drawn; the first six of whom shall serve out the unfinished term of the six of the discharged members of the former Grand Jury whose term would have expired not later than six months from the day of discharge; the second six of whom shall serve out the unfinished term of the six members of the former Grand Jury whose term would have expired not later than twelve months from the day of discharge and the third six of whom shall serve out the unfinished term of the six members of the former Grand Jury whose term would have expired not later than eighteen months from the day of discharge. Either of said Judges may, during or out of term, order the County Commissioners for Catawba County, from time to time, to completely revise the jury list for said County."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 24th day of February, 1961.