NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 471

HOUSE BILL 965

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 15A-943 TO MAKE MORE FLEXIBLE THE CALENDARING OF ARRAIGNMENTS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-943 is amended by the addition of a new subsection thereto, to read as follows:

"(c)       Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, in any county where as many as three simultaneous sessions of superior court, whether criminal, civil, or mixed, are regularly scheduled, the prosecutor may calendar arraignments in any of the criminal or mixed sessions, at least every other week, upon any day or days of a session, and jury cases may be calendared for trial in any other court at which criminal cases may be heard, upon such days."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on the same date as Chapter 1286, S.L. 1973 (G.S. Chapter 15A) becomes effective.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of June, 1975.