GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 844*

 
 
Short Title:	Divide District Court District 11.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Davis and Cox.	
Referred to:	Judiciary III.	
March 29, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to divide district court district eleven into a set of districts for electoral purposes only.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑133(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Each district court district shall have the numbers of judges as set forth in the following table:

District	Judges	County 

	1	5	Camden
	Chowan
	Currituck
	Dare
	Gates
	Pasquotank
	Perquimans
	2	4	Martin
	Beaufort
	Tyrrell 
	Hyde
	Washington
	3A	5	Pitt
	3B	5	Craven
	Pamlico
	Carteret
	4	8	Sampson
	Duplin
	Jones
	Onslow
	5	7	New Hanover
	Pender
	6A	2	Halifax
	6B	3	Northampton
	Bertie
	Hertford
	7	7	Nash
	Edgecombe
	Wilson
	8	6	Wayne
	Greene
	Lenoir
	9	4	Granville
	(part of Vance
	see subsection (b))
	Franklin
	9A	2	Person
	Caswell
	9B	2	Warren
	(part of Vance
	see subsection (b))
	10	14	Wake

	11A	4	Harnett
			Lee
	11B	4	Johnston
	12	9	Cumberland
	13	6	Bladen
	Brunswick
	Columbus
	14	6	Durham
	15A	4	Alamance
	15B	4	Orange
	Chatham
	16A	3	Scotland
	Hoke
	16B	5	Robeson
	17A	3 	Rockingham
	17B	3	Stokes
	Surry
	18	12	Guilford
	19A	4	Cabarrus
	19B	6	Montgomery
	Moore
	Randolph
	19C	4	Rowan
	20	7	Stanly
	Union
	Anson
	Richmond
	21	8	Forsyth
	22	9	Alexander
	Davidson
	Davie
	Iredell
	23	4	Alleghany
	Ashe
	Wilkes
	Yadkin
	24	4	Avery
	Madison
	Mitchell
	Watauga
	Yancey
	25	8	Burke
	Caldwell
	Catawba
	26	17	Mecklenburg
	27A	6	Gaston
	27B	4	Cleveland
	Lincoln
	28	6	Buncombe
	29	6	Henderson
	McDowell
	Polk
	Rutherford
	Transylvania
	30	5	Cherokee
	Clay
	Graham
	Haywood
	Jackson
	Macon
	Swain."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 7A‑200(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	In this section:
(1)	"District" means any district court district established by G.S. 7A‑133 which consists exclusively of one or more entire counties;
(2)	"Set of districts" means (i) any set of two or more district court districts established under G.S. 7A‑133, none of which consists exclusively of one or more entire counties, but both or all of which include territory from the same county or counties and together comprise all of the territory of that county or those counties; or (ii) District Court Districts 11A and 11B; and
(3)	"Chief district court judge" means in the case of a set of districts, the chief district court judge for those districts, designated by the chief justice from among the district court judges for the districts in the set of districts."
SECTION 3.  The district court judgeships established for District 11A by Section 1 of this act shall be filled by the district court judges from the current District 11 who reside in either Harnett or Lee Counties on October 1, 2002. Those judges' successors shall be elected for four‑year terms in the 2004 election.
SECTION 4.  The district court judgeships established for District 11B by Section 1 of this act shall be filled by the district court judges from the current District 11 who reside in Johnston County on October 1, 2002. The terms of office of two of the judges residing in Johnston County expire on the first Monday in December 2002.  Those judges' successors shall be elected for four‑year terms in the 2002 election. The successors to the remaining judges residing in Johnston County shall be elected for four‑year terms in the 2004 election.
SECTION 5.  This act divides District Court District 11 solely for the purpose of electing judges and does not change the number of judges authorized for District Court District 11, the number of chief district court judges authorized for the district, or the rotation of judges within the district.
SECTION 6.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2002, or the date upon which this act is approved under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, whichever is later.