North Carolina Code — 007
Browse 645 sections in division 007 of the North Carolina code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 7A-1. Short title.
- § 7A-2. Purpose of Chapter.
- § 7A-3. Judicial power; transition provisions.
- § 7A-4. Composition and organization.
- § 7A-4. 1. Retention elections.
- § 7A-4. 2. Retention approval; failure to retain.
- § 7A-4. 20. Age limit for service as justice or judge: exception.
- § 7A-4. 21. Validation of official actions of district court judges of twenty-fifth judicial district performed after mandatory retirement age.
- § 7A-5. Organization.
- § 7A-6. Appellate division reporters; reports.
- § 7A-7. Law clerks; secretaries and stenographers.
- § 7A-10. Organization; compensation of justices.
- § 7A-10. 1. Authority to prescribe standards of judicial conduct.
- § 7A-11. Clerk of the Supreme Court; salary; bond; fees; oath.
- § 7A-12. Supreme Court marshal.
- § 7A-13. Supreme Court library; functions; librarian; library committee; seal of office.
- § 7A-14. Reprints of Supreme Court Reports.
- § 7A-16. Creation and organization.
- § 7A-18. Compensation of judges.
- § 7A-19. Seats and sessions of court.
- § 7A-20. Clerk; oath; bond; salary; assistants; fees.
- § 7A-21. Marshal; powers; salary.
- § 7A-25. Original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
- § 7A-26. Appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals.
- § 7A-27. Appeals of right from the courts of the trial divisions.
- § 7A-28. Decisions of Court of Appeals on post-trial motions for appropriate relief, valuation of exempt property, or courts-martial are final.
- § 7A-29. Appeals of right from certain administrative agencies.
- § 7A-30. Appeals of right from certain decisions of the Court of Appeals.
- § 7A-31. Discretionary review by the Supreme Court.
- § 7A-31. 1. Discretionary Review by the Court of Appeals.
- § 7A-32. Power of Supreme Court and Court of Appeals to issue remedial writs.
- § 7A-33. Supreme Court to prescribe appellate division rules of practice and procedure.
- § 7A-34. Rules of practice and procedure in trial courts.
- § 7A-34. 1: Repealed by Session Laws 2011-145, s. 31.23(f), effective July 1, 2011.
- § 7A-37. 1. Statewide court-ordered, nonbinding arbitration in certain civil actions.
- § 7A-38. 1. Mediated settlement conferences in superior court civil actions.
- § 7A-38. 2. Regulation of mediators and other neutrals.
- § 7A-38. 3. Prelitigation mediation of farm nuisance disputes.
- § 7A-38. 3A. Prelitigation mediation of insurance claims.
- § 7A-38. 3B. Mediation in matters within the jurisdiction of the clerk of superior court.
- § 7A-38. 3C: Repealed by Session Laws 2007-419, s. 4, effective August 21, 2007.
- § 7A-38. 3D. Mediation in matters within the jurisdiction of the district criminal courts.
- § 7A-38. 3E. Mediation of public records disputes.
- § 7A-38. 3F. Prelitigation mediation of condominium and homeowners association disputes.
- § 7A-38. 4: Repealed by Session Laws 2001-320, s. 1, effective October 1, 2001.
- § 7A-38. 4A. Settlement procedures in district court actions.
- § 7A-38. 5. Community mediation centers.
- § 7A-38. 6: Repealed by Session Laws 2014-100, s. 18B.1(g), effective July 1, 2014.
- § 7A-38. 7. Dispute resolution fee for cases referred to mediation.
- § 7A-39. Cancellation of court sessions and closing court offices; extension of statutes of limitations and other emergency orders in catastrophic conditions.
- § 7A-39. 1. Justice, emergency justice, judge and emergency judge defined.
- § 7A-39. 2. Age and service requirements for retirement of justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the Court of Appeals.
- § 7A-39. 3. Retired justices and judges may become emergency justices and judges subject to recall to active service; compensation for emergency justices and judges on recall.
- § 7A-39. 4. Retirement creates vacancy.
- § 7A-39. 5. Recall of emergency justice or emergency judge upon temporary incapacity of a justice or judge.
- § 7A-39. 6. Application to the Governor; commission as emergency justice or emergency judge.
- § 7A-39. 7. Jurisdiction and authority of emergency justices and emergency judges.
- § 7A-39. 8. Court authorized to adopt rules.
- § 7A-39. 9. Chief Justice and Chief Judge may recall and terminate recall of justices and judges; procedure when Chief Justice or Chief Judge incapacitated.
- § 7A-39. 10. Article applicable to previously retired justices.
- § 7A-39. 11. Retirement on account of total and permanent disability.
- § 7A-39. 12. Applicability of §§ 7A-39.2 and 7A-39.11
- § 7A-39. 13. Recall of active and emergency justices and judges who have reached mandatory retirement age.
- § 7A-39. 14. Recall by Chief Justice of retired or emergency justices or judges for temporary vacancy.
- § 7A-39. 15. Emergency recall judges of the Court of Appeals.
- § 7A-40. Composition; judicial powers of clerk.
- § 7A-41. Superior court divisions and districts; judges.
- § 7A-41. 1. District and set of districts defined; senior resident superior court judges and their authority.
- § 7A-41. 2. Nomination and election of regular superior court judges.
- § 7A-42. Sessions of superior court in cities other than county seats.
- § 7A-44. Salary and expenses of superior court judge.
- § 7A-44. 1. Secretarial and clerical help.
- § 7A-45. 1. Special judges.
- § 7A-45. 2. Emergency special judges of the superior court; qualifications, appointment, removal, and authority.
- § 7A-45. 3. Superior court judges designated for complex business cases.
- § 7A-45. 4. Designation of complex business cases.
- § 7A-45. 5: Repealed by Session Laws 2017-57, s. 18B.4(a), effective June 28, 2017.
- § 7A-46. Special sessions.
- § 7A-47. Powers of regular judges holding courts by assignment or exchange.
- § 7A-47. 1. Jurisdiction in vacation or in session.
- § 7A-47. 2: Repealed by Session Laws 1987 (Regular Session, 1988), c. 1037, s. 8.
- § 7A-47. 3. Rotation and assignment; sessions.
- § 7A-48. Jurisdiction of emergency judges.
- § 7A-49. Orders returnable to another judge; notice.
- § 7A-49. 1. Disposition of motions when judge disqualified.
- § 7A-49. 2. Civil business at criminal sessions; criminal business at civil sessions.
- § 7A-49. 4. Superior court criminal case docketing.
- § 7A-49. 6. Proceedings conducted by audio and video transmission.
- § 7A-49. 5. Statewide electronic filing in courts.
- § 7A-50. Emergency judge defined.
- § 7A-51. Age and service requirements for retirement of judges of the superior court and of the Administrative Officer of the Courts.
- § 7A-52. Retired district and superior court judges may become emergency judges subject to recall to active service; compensation for emergency judges on recall.
- § 7A-53. Application to the Governor; commission as emergency judge.
- § 7A-53. 1. Jurisdiction of emergency district court judges.
- § 7A-54. Article applicable to judges retired under prior law.
- § 7A-55. Retirement on account of total and permanent disability.
- § 7A-56. Applicability of §§ 7A-51 and 7A-55.
- § 7A-57. Recall of active and emergency trial judges who have reached mandatory retirement age.
- § 7A-60. District attorneys and prosecutorial districts.
- § 7A-61. Duties of district attorney.
- § 7A-62. Acting district attorney.
- § 7A-63. Assistant district attorneys.
- § 7A-64. Temporary assistance for district attorneys.
- § 7A-65. Compensation and allowances of district attorneys and assistant district attorneys.
- § 7A-66. Removal of district attorneys.
- § 7A-66. 1. Office of solicitor may be denominated as office of district attorney; "solicitor" and "district attorney" made interchangeable; interchangeable use authorized in proceedings, documents, and quotations.
- § 7A-68. Administrative assistants.
- § 7A-69. Investigatorial assistants.
- § 7A-69. 1: Repealed by Session Laws 1985 (Regular Session, 1986), c. 998, s. 3.
- § 7A-95. Reporting of trials.
- § 7A-96. Court adjourned by sheriff when judge not present.
- § 7A-97. Court's control of argument.
- § 7A-98. Unsworn declarations under penalty of perjury.
- § 7A-100. Election; term of office; oath; vacancy; office and office hours; appointment of acting clerk.
- § 7A-101. Compensation.
- § 7A-102. Assistant and deputy clerks; appointment; number; salaries; duties.
- § 7A-102. 1. Transfer of sick leave earned as county or municipal employees by certain employees in offices of clerks of superior court.
- § 7A-103. Authority of clerk of superior court.
- § 7A-104. Disqualification; waiver; removal; when judge acts.
- § 7A-105. Suspension, removal, and reinstatement of clerk.
- § 7A-106. Custody of records and property of office.
- § 7A-107. Bonds of clerks, assistant and deputy clerks, and employees of office.
- § 7A-108. Accounting for fees and other receipts; audit.
- § 7A-109. Record-keeping procedures.
- § 7A-109. 1. List of prisoners furnished to judges.
- § 7A-109. 2. (Contingent effective date - see notes) Records of dispositions in criminal cases.
- § 7A-109. 3. Delivery of commitment order.
- § 7A-109. 4. Records of offenses involving impaired driving.
- § 7A-111. Receipt and disbursement of insurance and other moneys for minors and incapacitated adults.
- § 7A-112. Investment of funds in clerk's hands.
- § 7A-112. 1. Deposit of money held by clerks.
- § 7A-113. Bookkeeping and accounting systems equipment.
- § 7A-114. Where practical, provision of secure area for domestic violence victims waiting for hearing.
- § 7A-130. Creation of district court division and district court districts; seats of court.
- § 7A-131. Establishment of district courts.
- § 7A-132. Judges, district attorneys, full-time assistant district attorneys and magistrates for district court districts.
- § 7A-133. Numbers of judges by districts; numbers of magistrates and additional seats of court, by counties.
- § 7A-135. Transfer of pending cases when present inferior courts replaced by district courts.
- § 7A-140. Number; election; term; qualification; oath.
- § 7A-141. Designation of chief judge; assignment of judge to another district for temporary or specialized duty.
- § 7A-142. Vacancies in office.
- § 7A-144. Compensation.
- § 7A-146. Administrative authority and duties of chief district judge.
- § 7A-147. Specialized judgeships.
- § 7A-148. Annual conference of chief district judges.
- § 7A-149. Jurisdiction; sessions.
- § 7A-170. Nature of office and oath; age limit for service.
- § 7A-171. Numbers; appointment and terms; vacancies.
- § 7A-171. 1. Duty hours, salary, and travel expenses within county.
- § 7A-171. 2. Qualifications for nomination or renomination.
- § 7A-171. 3. Magistrate rules of conduct.
- § 7A-173. Suspension; removal; reinstatement.
- § 7A-174. Bonds.
- § 7A-175. Records to be kept.
- § 7A-176. Office of justice of the peace abolished.
- § 7A-177. Training course in duties of magistrate.
- § 7A-178. Magistrate as child support hearing officer.
- § 7A-180. Functions of clerk of superior court in district court matters.
- § 7A-181. Functions of assistant and deputy clerks of superior court in district court matters.
- § 7A-182. Clerical functions at additional seats of court.
- § 7A-183. Clerk or assistant clerk as child support hearing officer.
- § 7A-190. District courts always open.
- § 7A-191. Trials; hearings and orders in chambers.
- § 7A-191. 1. Recording of proceeding in which defendant pleads guilty or no contest to felony in district court.
- § 7A-192. By whom power of district court to enter interlocutory orders exercised.
- § 7A-193. Civil procedure generally.
- § 7A-196. Jury trials.
- § 7A-197. Petit jurors.
- § 7A-198. Reporting of civil trials.
- § 7A-199. Special venue rule when district court sits without jury in seat of court lying in more than one county; where judgments recorded.
- § 7A-200. District and set of districts defined; chief district court judges and their authority.
- § 7A-210. Small claim action defined.
- § 7A-211. Small claim actions assignable to magistrates.
- § 7A-211. 1. Actions to enforce motor vehicle mechanic and storage liens.
- § 7A-212. Judgment of magistrate in civil action improperly assigned or not assigned.
- § 7A-213. Procedure for commencement of action; request for and notice of assignment.
- § 7A-214. Time within which trial is set.
- § 7A-215. Procedure upon nonassignment of small claim action.
- § 7A-216. Form of complaint.
- § 7A-217. Methods of subjecting person of defendant to jurisdiction.
- § 7A-218. Answer of defendant.
- § 7A-219. Certain counterclaims; cross claims; third-party claims not permissible.
- § 7A-220. No required pleadings other than complaint.
- § 7A-221. Objections to venue and jurisdiction over person.
- § 7A-222. General trial practice and procedure.
- § 7A-223. Practice and procedure in small claim actions for summary ejectment.
- § 7A-224. Rendition and entry of judgment.
- § 7A-225. Lien and execution of judgment.
- § 7A-226. Priority of judgment when appeal taken.
- § 7A-227. Stay of execution on appeal.
- § 7A-228. New trial before magistrate; appeal for trial de novo; how appeal perfected; oral notice; dismissal.
- § 7A-229. Trial de novo on appeal.
- § 7A-230. Jury trial on appeal.
- § 7A-231. Provisional and incidental remedies.
- § 7A-232. Forms.
- § 7A-240. Original civil jurisdiction generally.
- § 7A-241. Original jurisdiction in probate and administration of decedents' estates.
- § 7A-242. Concurrently held original jurisdiction allocated between trial divisions.
- § 7A-243. Proper division for trial of civil actions generally determined by amount in controversy.
- § 7A-244. Domestic relations.
- § 7A-245. Injunctive and declaratory relief to enforce or invalidate statutes; constitutional rights.
- § 7A-246. Special proceedings; exceptions; guardianship and trust administration.
- § 7A-247. Quo warranto.
- § 7A-248. Condemnation actions and proceedings.
- § 7A-249. Corporate receiverships.
- § 7A-250. Review of decisions of administrative agencies.
- § 7A-251. Appeal from clerk to judge.
- § 7A-253. Infractions.
- § 7A-255. Clerk of superior court processes all actions and proceedings.
- § 7A-256. Causes docketed and retained in originally designated trial division until transferred.
- § 7A-257. Waiver of proper division.
- § 7A-258. Motion to transfer.
- § 7A-259. Transfer on judge's own motion.
- § 7A-260. Review of transfer matters.
- § 7A-270. Generally.
- § 7A-271. Jurisdiction of superior court.
- § 7A-272. Jurisdiction of district court; concurrent jurisdiction in guilty or no contest pleas for certain felony offenses; appellate and appropriate relief procedures applicable.
- § 7A-273. (Effective until December 1, 2021) Powers of magistrates in infractions or criminal actions.
- § 7A-274. Power of mayors, law-enforcement officers, etc., to issue warrants and set bail restricted.
- § 7A-276. 1. Court orders prohibiting publication or broadcast of reports of open court proceedings or reports of public records banned.
- § 7A-289. 7: Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 815, s. 1.
- § 7A-289. 23A: Recodified as § 7B-1102.
- § 7A-290. Appeals from district court in criminal cases; notice; appeal bond.
- § 7A-291. Additional powers of district court judges.
- § 7A-292. Additional powers of magistrates.
- § 7A-293. Special authority of a magistrate assigned to a municipality located in more than one county of a district court district.
- § 7A-300. Expenses paid from State funds.
- § 7A-300. 1. Local supplementation of salaries for certain officers and employees.
- § 7A-301. Disbursement of expenses.
- § 7A-302. Counties and municipalities responsible for physical facilities.
- § 7A-303. Equipment and supplies in clerk's office.
- § 7A-304. Costs in criminal actions.
- § 7A-305. Costs in civil actions.
- § 7A-305. 1. Discovery, fee on filing verified petition.
- § 7A-306. Costs in special proceedings.
- § 7A-307. Costs in administration of estates.
- § 7A-308. Miscellaneous fees and commissions.
- § 7A-308. 1. Fees on deposits and investments.
- § 7A-309. Magistrate's special fees.
- § 7A-310. Fees of commissioners and assessors appointed by magistrate.
- § 7A-311. Uniform civil process fees.
- § 7A-312. Uniform fees for jurors; meals.
- § 7A-313. Uniform jail fees.
- § 7A-313. 1. Fee for costs of electronic monitoring.
- § 7A-314. Uniform fees for witnesses; experts; limit on number.
- § 7A-314. 1. Family court fees.
- § 7A-315. Liability of State for witness fees in criminal cases when defendant not liable.
- § 7A-316. Payment of witness fees in criminal actions.
- § 7A-317. Counties and municipalities required to advance costs and fees.
- § 7A-317. 1. Disposition of fees in counties with unincorporated seats of court.
- § 7A-318. Determination and disbursement of costs on and after date district court established.
- § 7A-320. Costs are exclusive.
- § 7A-321. Collection of offender fines and fees assessed by the court; collection assistance fee.
- § 7A-340. Administrative Office of the Courts; establishment; officers.
- § 7A-341. Appointment and compensation of Director.
- § 7A-342. Appointment and compensation of assistant director and other employees.
- § 7A-343. Duties of Director.
- § 7A-343. 1. Distribution of copies of the appellate division reports.
- § 7A-343. 2. Court Information Technology Fund.
- § 7A-343. 3. Appellate Courts Printing and Computer Operations Fund.
- § 7A-343. 4. Internal audit standards; report and work papers.
- § 7A-343. 5. Definitions.
- § 7A-343. 6. Electronic filing in Chapter 50B and Chapter 50C cases.
- § 7A-345. Duties of assistant director.
- § 7A-346. Information to be furnished to Administrative Officer.
- § 7A-346. 2. Various reports to General Assembly.
- § 7A-346. 3: Repealed by Session Laws 2019-243, s. 5(c), effective November 6, 2019.
- § 7A-347. District attorney legal assistants.
- § 7A-348. Training and supervision of district attorney legal assistants.
- § 7A-349. Criminal history record check; denial of employment, contract, or volunteer opportunity.
- § 7A-350. Annual report on criminal court cost waivers.
- § 7A-354. North Carolina Human Trafficking Commission.
- § 7A-355. Trial court administrators.
- § 7A-356. Duties.
- § 7A-374. 1. Purpose.
- § 7A-374. 2. Definitions.
- § 7A-375. Judicial Standards Commission.
- § 7A-376. Grounds for discipline by Commission; public reprimand, censure, suspension, or removal by the Supreme Court.
- § 7A-377. Procedures.
- § 7A-409. Composition of State Judicial Council.
- § 7A-409. 1. Duties of the State Judicial Council.
- § 7A-409. 2. Compensation of the State Judicial Council.
- § 7A-410. Vacancy exists on disbarment.
- § 7A-410. 1. Suspension of salary.
- § 7A-411. Establishment and purpose.
- § 7A-412. Annual meetings; organization; election of officers.
- § 7A-413. Powers of Conference.
- § 7A-414. Executive Secretary; clerical support.
- § 7A-450. Indigency; definition; entitlement; determination; change of status.
- § 7A-450. 1. Responsibility for payment by certain fiduciaries.
- § 7A-450. 2. Determination of fiduciaries at indigency determination; summons; service of process.
- § 7A-450. 3. Determination of responsibility at hearing.
- § 7A-450. 4. Exemptions.
- § 7A-451. Scope of entitlement.
- § 7A-451. 1. Counsel fees for outpatient involuntary commitment proceedings.
- § 7A-452. Source of counsel; fees; appellate records.
- § 7A-453. Duty of custodian of a possibly indigent person; determination of indigency.
- § 7A-454. Supporting services.
- § 7A-455. Partial indigency; liens; acquittals.
- § 7A-455. 1. Appointment fee in criminal cases.