AN ACT to add two additional magistrates to mecklenburg county and to appropriate funds.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑133(c) reads as rewritten:

(c)      Each county shall have the numbers of magistrates and additional seats of district court, as set forth in the following table:

Magistrates                              Additional

County                                                Min.                                Seats of Court

Camden                                                   3

Chowan                                                   3

Currituck                                                 3

Dare                                                        4

Gates                                                       2

Pasquotank                                              4

Perquimans                                             3

Martin                                                     3

Beaufort                                                  4

Tyrrell                                                     3

Hyde                                                       3.5

Washington                                             3

Pitt                                                         10.5                                 Farmville

Ayden

Craven                                                     8                                    Havelock

Pamlico                                                   3

Carteret                                                   6

Sampson                                                 5

Duplin                                                     4

Jones                                                       2

Onslow                                                  11

New Hanover                                        11

Pender                                                     3.8

Halifax                                                    7                                    Roanoke Rapids,

Scotland Neck

Northampton                                           3

Bertie                                                      3

Hertford                                                  3

Nash                                                        9                                    Rocky Mount

Edgecombe                                             7                                    Rocky Mount

Wilson                                                     7

Wayne                                                     9                                    Mount Olive

Greene                                                     3

Lenoir                                                     7                                    La Grange

Granville                                                 5

Vance                                                      6

Warren                                                    3

Franklin                                                   4

Person                                                     4

Caswell                                                   3

Wake                                                     18.5                                 Apex, Wendell,

Fuquay‑Varina,

Wake Forest

Harnett                                                    8                                    Dunn

Johnston                                                10                                    Benson,

Clayton,

Selma

Lee                                                          5

Cumberland                                          19

Bladen                                                     3

Brunswick                                               8

Columbus                                                5                                    Tabor City

Durham                                                 13

Alamance                                              12                                    Burlington

Orange                                                    7                                    Chapel Hill

Chatham                                                  4                                    Siler City

Scotland                                                  5

Hoke                                                       3

Robeson                                                12                                    Fairmont,

Maxton,

Pembroke,

Red Springs,

Rowland,

St. Pauls

Rockingham                                            7                                    Reidsville,

Eden,

Madison

Stokes                                                     3

Surry                                                       6                                    Mt. Airy

Guilford                                                24.4                                 High Point

Cabarrus                                                  9                                    Kannapolis

Montgomery                                           3

Randolph                                                 9                                    Liberty

Rowan                                                     9

Stanly                                                      5

Union                                                      7

Anson                                                      3

Richmond                                               5                                    Hamlet

Moore                                                     5                                    Southern

Pines

Forsyth                                                  15                                    Kernersville

Alexander                                               3

Davidson                                                 8                                    Thomasville

Davie                                                       3

Iredell                                                      9                                    Mooresville

Alleghany                                               2

Ashe                                                        3

Wilkes                                                     6

Yadkin                                                    3

Avery                                                      3

Madison                                                  3

Mitchell                                                   3

Watauga                                                  4

Yancey                                                    3

Burke                                                      5.6

Caldwell                                                  6

Catawba                                                10                                    Hickory

Mecklenburg                                         26.5028.50

Gaston                                                   17

Cleveland                                                7

Lincoln                                                    5

Buncombe                                             15

Henderson                                               6.5

McDowell                                               3

Polk                                                         3

Rutherford                                               6

Transylvania                                           3

Cherokee                                                 3

Clay                                                         2

Graham                                                   2

Haywood                                                 5                                    Canton

Jackson                                                   3

Macon                                                     3

Swain                                                      3

SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of one hundred thirty‑seven thousand seventy‑eight dollars ($137,078) in recurring funds for each fiscal year of the 2021‑2023 fiscal biennium and six thousand fifty‑six dollars ($6,056) in nonrecurring funds for the 2021‑2022 fiscal year to be used to hire two additional magistrates to serve in Mecklenburg County pursuant to Section 1 of this act.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2021.