GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 1132

 
 
Short Title:	Increase Jurors' Fees.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Davis;  Capps, Carpenter, Decker, Eddins, Harrington, Hilton, Johnson, Morris, Rayfield, Russell, Setzer, Sexton, Shubert, Starnes, Walend, and C. Wilson.	
Referred to:	Appropriations.	
April 12, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the uniform fees paid for jury service.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑312 reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A‑312.  Uniform fees for jurors; meals.
A juror in the General Court of Justice including a petit juror, or a coroner's juror, but excluding a grand juror, shall receive twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day, except that if any person serves as a juror for more than five days in any 24‑month period, the juror shall receive fifty dollars ($50.00) per day for each day of service in excess of five days. A grand juror shall receive twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day. A juror required to remain overnight at the site of the trial shall be furnished adequate accommodations and subsistence. If required by the presiding judge to remain in a body during the trial of a case, meals shall be furnished the jurors during the period of sequestration. Jurors from out of the county summoned to sit on a special venire shall receive mileage at the same rate as State employees."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2001, and applies to fees paid on or after that date.