GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

 

 

SESSION LAW 2013-277

HOUSE BILL 161

 

 

AN ACT to establish a mandatory retirement age for magistrates.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A-170 reads as rewritten:

"§ 7A-170.  Nature of office and oath.oath; age limit for service.

(a)        A magistrate is an officer of the district court. Before entering upon the duties of his office, a magistrate shall take the oath of office prescribed for a magistrate of the General Court of Justice. A magistrate possesses all the powers of his office at all times during his term.

(b)        No magistrate may continue in office beyond the last day of the month in which the magistrate reaches the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges of the General Court of Justice specified in G.S. 7A-4.20."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2015, and applies to individuals whose terms of office as magistrates begin on or after the effective date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9th day of July, 2013.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Pat McCrory

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 6:12 p.m. this 18th day of July, 2013