2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 7A - Judicial Department.
§ 7A-255. Clerk of superior court processes all actions and proceedings.
Article 21.
Institution, Docketing, and Transferring Civil Causes in the Trial Divisions.
§ 7A‑255. Clerk of superior court processes all actions and proceedings.
All civil actions and proceedings in the General Court of Justice are instituted in, and the original records thereof are maintained in, the office of the clerk of superior court, without regard to the trial divisions in which the cause is pending from time to time. When the commencement of an action or proceeding requires issuance of summons, the clerk of superior court issues the summons, and such summons runs and is valid as general process of the State without regard to the trial division in which the action or proceeding may be pending from time to time. (1965, c. 310, s. 1; 1967, c. 691, s. 22.)
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