§ 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‑52. Retireddistrict and superior court judges may become emergency judges subject torecall to active service; compensation for emergency judges on recall.
(a) Judges of thedistrict court and judges of the superior court who have not reached the mandatoryretirement age specified in G.S. 7A‑4.20, but who have retired under theprovisions of G.S. 7A‑51, or under the Uniform Judicial Retirement Actafter having completed five years of creditable service, may apply as providedin G.S. 7A‑53 to become emergency judges of the court from which theyretired. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court may order any emergency judgeof the district or superior court who, in his opinion, is competent to performthe duties of a judge of the court from which such judge retired, to holdregular or special sessions of such court, as needed. Order of assignment shallbe in writing and entered upon the minutes of the court to which such emergencyjudge is assigned.
(b) In addition to thecompensation or retirement allowance the judge would otherwise be entitled toreceive by law, each emergency judge of the district or superior court who isassigned to temporary active service by the Chief Justice shall be paid by theState the judge's actual expenses, plus four hundred dollars ($400.00) for eachday of active service rendered upon recall. No recalled retired trial judgeshall receive from the State total annual compensation for judicial services inexcess of that received by an active judge of the bench to which the judge isrecalled. (1967,c. 108, s. 2; 1973, c. 640, s. 4; 1977, c. 736, s. 3; 1979, c. 878, s. 2; 1981,c. 455, s. 6; c. 859, s. 47; 1981 (Reg. Sess., 1982), c. 1253, s. 3; 1983, c.784; 1985, c. 698, s. 9(b); 1987, c. 738, s. 132; 1987 (Reg. Sess., 1988), c. 1086,s. 31(b); 1989, c. 116; 1993, c. 321, s. 200.3; 1998‑212, s. 16.27(a);2007‑323, s. 14.26; 2007‑345, s. 9.)