GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION

CHAPTER 197 
HOUSE BILL 512 

AN ACT RELATING TO USE OF LISTS OF LICENSED DRIVERS FOR JURY DUTY, AND THE NUMBER OF NAMES ON THE JURY LIST. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-43.4 is amended by deleting "18 years of age or older" and inserting in lieu thereof "who will be 18 years of age or older as of the first day of January of the following year". 
Sec. 1.1.  The first sentence of G.S. 20-43.4 is further amended by adding immediately before the period the words ", provided that if an annual jury list is being prepared under G.S. 9-2(a), the list to be provided to the county jury commission shall be provided annually". 
Sec. 2.  G.S. 9-2(f) is amended by adding immediately after the word "biennium" the words "or, if an annual list is being prepared as requested under subsection (a) of this section the jury list shall contain not less than one and one-quarter times and not more than three times as many names as were drawn for jury duty in all courts in the county during the previous year". 
Sec. 3.  Section 1 of this act is effective upon ratification.  Section 2 of this act is effective beginning with lists prepared for use in 1984. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of April, 1983.