NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 538

SENATE BILL 290

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND GS 9-19 RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM JURY DUTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 9-19, as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new paragraph:

"All members of a regularly organized rescue unit and/or civil defense unit shall be exempt from serving as jurors."

Sec. 1½. This Act shall apply only to Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon and Swain Counties.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 30th day of May, 1961.