IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA ORDER ADOPTING AMENDMENT TO RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE

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	  	Rule 3(c) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure, 
	  287 N.C. 671, as amended 324 N.C. 613, is hereby amended to read as 
	  in the following pages.  This amendment shall be effective 1 
	  October 1994.

	  	Adopted by the Court in conference this 28th day of July, 
	  1994.  This amendment shall be promulgated by publication in the 
	  Advance Sheets of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals.



	  								s/Parker, J.
	  								For the Court




	  ORDER ADOPTING AMENDMENT
	  TO RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE


	  RULE 3.  APPEAL IN CIVIL CASES--
	  HOW AND WHEN TAKEN

	  	(c) Time for Taking Appeal.  Appeal from a judgment or order 
	  in a civil action or special proceeding must be taken within 30 
	  days after its entry.  The running of the time for filing and 
	  serving a notice of appeal in a civil action or special proceeding 
	  is tolled as to all parties for the duration of any period of 
	  noncompliance with the service requirement of Rule 58 of the Rules 
	  of Civil Procedure, and by a timely motion filed by any party 
	  pursuant to the Rules of Civil Procedure enumerated in this 
	  subdivision, and the full time for appeal commences to run and is 
	  to be computed from the entry of an order upon any of the following 
	  motions:

	  	(1) a motion under Rule 50(b) for judgment n.o.v. whether or 
	  not with conditional grant or denial of new trial;

	  	(2) a motion under Rule 52(b) to amend or make additional 
	  findings of fact, whether or not an alteration of the judgment 
	  would be required if the motion is granted;

	  	(3) a motion under Rule 59 to alter or amend a judgment;

	  	(4) a motion under Rule 59 for a new trial.

	  	If a timely notice of appeal is filed and served by a party, 
	  any other party may file and serve a notice of appeal within 10 
	  days after the first notice of appeal was served on such party.