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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-55-80 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-55-80
§ 58-55-80. Information sharing
Status: in_force

(a) In order to assist in the performance of the Commissioner's duties under the long-term care partnership program specified in the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, the Commissioner may:

(1) Share information, including identifying information, related to the long-term care partnership program with other state and federal agencies, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and any entity contracting with the federal government under the program.

(2) Receive information, including identifying information, related to the long-term care partnership program from other state and federal agencies, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and any entity contracting with the federal government under the program, and shall maintain as confidential or privileged any identifying information received with notice or the understanding that it is confidential or privileged under the laws of the jurisdiction that is the source of the document, material, or information. Information received under this subdivision of this subsection is not a “public record” as defined in G.S. 132-1 .

(3) Enter into agreements governing sharing and use of information consistent with this section.

(b) No waiver of an existing privilege or claim of confidentiality in the identifying information shall occur as a result of disclosure to the Commissioner under this section or as a result of sharing as authorized in subsection (a) of this section.

(c) A privilege established under the law of any state or jurisdiction that is substantially similar to the privilege established under this section shall be available and enforced in any proceeding in, and in any court of, this State.

(d) As used in this section, “identifying information” has the same meaning as in G.S. 14-113.20(b) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-1275 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-1275
§ 143B-1275. Protecting status of State employees in Armed Forces, etc.
Status: in_force

Any employee of the State of North Carolina, who has been granted a leave of absence for service in either (i) the Armed Forces of the United States; or (ii) the United States Merchant Marine; or (iii) outside the continental United States with the Red Cross, shall, upon return to State employment, if reemployed in the same position and if within the time limits set forth in the leave of absence, receive an annual salary of at least (i) the annual salary the employee was receiving at the time such leave was granted; plus (ii) an amount obtained by multiplying the step increment applicable to the employee's classification as provided in the classification and salary plan for State employees by the number of years of such service, counting a fraction of a year as a year; provided that no such employee shall receive a salary in excess of the top of the salary range applicable to the classification to which such employee is assigned upon return.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55A-16-05 — NC Code / Chapter 55A / Section 55A-16-05
§ 55A-16-05. Limitations on use of membership list
Status: in_force

Without consent of the board of directors, a membership list or any part thereof shall not be obtained or used by any person for any purpose unrelated to a member's interest as a member. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and without the consent of the board, a membership list or any part thereof shall not be:

(1) Used to solicit money or property unless such money or property will be used solely to solicit the votes of the members in an election to be held by the corporation;

(2) Used for any commercial purpose; or

(3) Sold to or purchased by any person.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59-301 — NC Code / Chapter 59 / Section 59-301
§ 59-301. Admission of limited partners
Status: in_force

(a) In connection with the formation of a limited partnership, a person is admitted as a limited partner upon the later to occur of:

(1) The formation of the limited partnership; or

(2) The time provided for becoming a limited partner pursuant to and upon compliance with the partnership agreement.

(b) After the formation of a limited partnership, a person may be admitted as an additional limited partner:

(1) In the case of a person acquiring a partnership interest directly from the limited partnership, at the time provided pursuant to, and upon the compliance with, the partnership agreement; and

(2) In the case of an assignee of a partnership interest of a partner who has the power, as provided in G.S. 59-704 , to grant the assignee the right to become a limited partner, upon the exercise of that power and compliance with any conditions limiting the grant or exercise of the power.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-3-230 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-3-230
§ 58-3-230. Uniform provider credentialing
Status: in_force

(a) An insurer that provides a health benefit plan and that credentials providers for its networks shall maintain a process to assess and verify the qualifications of a licensed health care practitioner within 60 days of receipt of a completed provider credentialing application form approved by the Commissioner. If the insurer has not approved or denied the provider credentialing application form within 60 days of receipt of the completed application, upon receipt of a written request from the applicant and within five business days of its receipt, the insurer shall issue a temporary credential to the applicant if the applicant has a valid North Carolina professional or occupational license to provide the health care services to which the credential would apply. The insurer shall not issue a temporary credential if the applicant has reported on the application a history of medical malpractice claims, a history of substance abuse or mental health issues, or a history of Medical Board disciplinary action. The temporary credential shall be effective upon issuance and shall remain in effect until the provider's credentialing application is approved or denied by the insurer. When a health care practitioner joins a practice that is under contract with an insurer to participate in a health benefit plan, the effective date of the health care practitioner's participation in the health benefit plan network shall be the date the insurer approves the practitioner's credentialing application.

(b) The Commissioner shall by rule adopt a uniform provider credentialing application form that will provide health benefit plans with the information necessary to adequately assess and verify the qualifications of an applicant. The Commissioner may update the uniform provider credentialing application form, as necessary. No insurer that provides a health benefit plan may require an applicant to submit information that is not required by the uniform provider credentialing application form.

(c) As used in this section, the terms “health benefit plan” and “insurer” shall have the meaning provided under G.S. 58-3-167 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-871 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-871
§ 106-871. Growing of timber on unused State lands authorized
Status: in_force

The Department of Administration may allocate to the Department, for management as a State forest, any vacant and unappropriated lands, any marshlands or swamplands, and any other lands title to which is vested in the State or in any State agency or institution, where such lands are not being otherwise used and are not suitable for cultivation. Lands under the supervision of the Wildlife Resources Commission and designated and in use as wildlife management areas, refuges, or fishing access areas and lands used as research stations shall not be subject to the provisions of this section. The Department shall plant timber-producing trees on all lands allocated to it for that purpose by the Department of Administration. The Commissioner may contract with the appropriate prison authorities for the furnishing, upon such conditions as may be agreed upon from time to time between such prison authorities and the Commissioner, of prison labor for use in the planting, cutting, and removal of timber from State forests which are under the management of the Department.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-13-5 — NC Code / Chapter 28A / Section 28A-13-5
§ 28A-13-5. Personal representatives hold in joint tenancy
Status: in_force

Any estate or interest in property which becomes vested in two or more personal representatives shall be held by them in joint tenancy with the incident of survivorship.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-3-402 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-3-402
§ 25-3-402. Signature by representative
Status: in_force

(a) If a person acting, or purporting to act, as a representative signs an instrument by signing either the name of the represented person or the name of the signer, the represented person is bound by the signature to the same extent the represented person would be bound if the signature were on a simple contract. If the represented person is bound, the signature of the representative is the “authorized signature of the represented person” and the represented person is liable on the instrument, whether or not identified in the instrument.

(b) If a representative signs the name of the representative to an instrument and the signature is an authorized signature of the represented person, the following rules apply:

(1) If the form of the signature shows unambiguously that the signature is made on behalf of the represented person who is identified in the instrument, the representative is not liable on the instrument.

(2) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, if (i) the form of the signature does not show unambiguously that the signature is made in a representative capacity, or (ii) the represented person is not identified in the instrument, the representative is liable on the instrument to a holder in due course that took the instrument without notice that the representative was not intended to be liable on the instrument. With respect to any other person, the representative is liable on the instrument unless the representative proves that the original parties did not intend the representative to be liable on the instrument.

(c) If a representative signs the name of the representative as drawer of a check without indication of the representative status and the check is payable from an account of the represented person who is identified on the check, the signer is not liable on the check if the signature is an authorized signature of the represented person.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-15-130 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-15-130
§ 58-15-130. Advance of funds
Status: in_force

The attorney or other interested persons may advance to a domestic reciprocal any funds required for its operations. The funds advanced shall not be treated as a liability of the reciprocal and shall not be withdrawn or repaid except out of the reciprocal's earned surplus in excess of its minimum required surplus. This section does not apply to loans made by commercial lenders in the ordinary course of their businesses.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-532 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-532
§ 143-532. Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this Article:

(1) The term “inaugural period” means the period which includes the day on which the ceremony inaugurating the Governor is held, the seven calendar days immediately preceding such day, and the seven calendar days immediately subsequent to such day; and

(2) The term “inaugural planning period” means the period beginning July 1 of the year in which the Governor is elected and ending the last day in the inaugural period.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-262 — NC Code / Chapter 95 / Section 95-262
§ 95-262. Commencement of action; venue
Status: in_force

(a) An action for a civil no-contact order is commenced by filing a verified complaint for a civil no-contact order in any civil district court or by filing a motion in any existing civil action.

(b) A complaint or motion for a civil no-contact order shall be filed in the county where the unlawful conduct took place.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-7-09 — NC Code / Chapter 55 / Section 55-7-09
§ 55-7-09. Remote participation in meetings; meetings held solely by remote participation
Status: in_force

(a) To the extent authorized by a corporation's board of directors, shareholders of any class or series designated by the board of directors may participate in any meeting of shareholders by means of remote communication. Participation by means of remote communication shall be subject to such guidelines and procedures as the board of directors adopts and shall be in conformity with subsection (b) of this section.

(b) Shareholders participating in a shareholders' meeting by means of remote communication are deemed present and may vote at the meeting if the corporation has implemented reasonable measures to do all of the following:

(1) Verify that each person participating remotely is a shareholder.

(2) Provide each shareholder participating remotely a reasonable opportunity to participate in the meeting and to vote on matters submitted to the shareholders, including an opportunity to communicate and read or hear the proceedings of the meeting, substantially concurrently with such proceedings.

(c) Unless shareholders' meetings held solely by means of remote communication are prohibited by the articles of incorporation or the bylaws, the board of directors may, in its sole discretion, determine that any meeting of shareholders shall not be held at any place and shall instead be held solely by means of remote communication, but only if the corporation implements the measures specified in subsection (b) of this section.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-27 — NC Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-27
§ 20-27. Availability of records
Status: in_force

(a) All records of the Division pertaining to application and to drivers' licenses, except the confidential medical report referred to in G.S. 20-7 , of the current or previous five years shall be open to public inspection in accordance with G.S. 20-43.1 , at any reasonable time during office hours and copies shall be provided pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 20-26 .

(b) All records of the Division pertaining to chemical tests as provided in G.S. 20-16.2 shall be available to the courts as provided in G.S. 20-26(b) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-392 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-392
§ 115C-392. Appeal of disciplinary measures
Status: in_force

Appeals of disciplinary measures are subject to the provisions of G.S. 115C-45(c) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-28-2 — NC Code / Chapter 136 / Section 136-28-2
§ 136-28.2. Relocated transportation infrastructure; contracts let by others
Status: in_force

The Department of Transportation is authorized to permit power companies and governmental agencies, including agencies of the federal government, when it is necessary to relocate transportation infrastructure by reason of the construction of a dam, to let contracts for the construction of the relocated transportation infrastructure. The construction shall be in accordance with the Department of Transportation standards and specifications. The Department of Transportation is further authorized to reimburse the power company or governmental agency for betterments arising out of the construction of the relocated transportation infrastructure, provided the bidding and the award is in accordance with the Department of Transportation's regulations and the Department of Transportation approves the award of the contract.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-44B-30 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-44B-30
§ 58-44B-30. Policy
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter, travel insurance shall be classified and filed for purposes of rates and forms under an inland marine line of insurance, provided, however, that travel insurance that provides coverage for sickness, accident, disability, or death occurring during travel, either exclusively or in conjunction with related coverages of emergency evacuation, repatriation of remains, or incidental limited property and casualty benefits such as baggage or trip cancellation, may be filed by an authorized insurer under either an accident and health line of insurance or an inland marine line of insurance.

(b) Eligibility and underwriting standards for travel insurance may be developed and provided based on travel protection plans designed for individual or identified marketing or distribution channels, provided those standards also meet the State's underwriting standards for inland marine.

(c) Travel insurance may be provided in the form of an individual, group, or blanket policy.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15-196-4 — NC Code / Chapter 15 / Section 15-196-4
§ 15-196.4. Procedures for judicial award
Status: in_force

Upon sentencing or activating a sentence, the judge presiding shall determine the credits to which the defendant is entitled and shall cause the clerk to transmit to the custodian of the defendant a statement of allowable credits. Upon committing a defendant upon the conclusion of an appeal, or a parole, probation, or post-release supervision revocation, the committing authority shall determine any credits allowable on account of these proceedings and shall cause to be transmitted, as in all other cases, a statement of the allowable credit to the custodian of the defendant. Upon reviewing a petition seeking credit not previously allowed, the court shall determine the credits due and forward an order setting forth the allowable credit to the custodian of the petitioner.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1381 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-1381
§ 15A-1381. Disposition defined
Status: reserved

As used in this Article, the term “disposition” means any action which results in termination or indeterminate suspension of the prosecution of a criminal charge. A disposition may be any one of the following actions:

(1) A finding of no probable cause pursuant to G.S. 15A-511(c)(2) ;

(2) An order of dismissal pursuant to G.S. 15A-604 ;

(3) A finding of no probable cause pursuant to G.S. 15A-612(a)(3) ;

(4) A return of not a true bill pursuant to G.S. 15A-629 ;

(5) Repealed by Laws 1989, c. 688, § 4;

(6) Dismissal pursuant to G.S. 15A-931 or 15A-932 ;

(7) Dismissal pursuant to G.S. 15A-954 , 15A-955 or 15A-959 ;

(8) Finding of a defendant's incapacity to proceed pursuant to G.S. 15A-1002 or dismissal of charges pursuant to G.S. 15A-1008 ;

(9) Entry of a plea of guilty or no contest pursuant to G.S. 15A-1011 , without regard to the sentence imposed upon the plea, and even though prayer for judgment on the plea be continued;

(10) Dismissal pursuant to G.S. 15A-1227 ;

(11) Return of verdict pursuant to G.S. 15A-1237 , without regard to the sentence imposed upon such verdict and even though prayer for judgment on such verdict be continued.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-663 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-663
§ 90-663. Injunctions
Status: in_force

The Board may apply to the superior court for an order enjoining violations of this Article, and upon a showing by the Board that any person has violated or is about to violate this Article, the court may grant an injunction or restraining order or take other appropriate action.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-329 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-329
§ 106-329. Compensation when killing ordered
Status: in_force

Compensation for animals destroyed on account of glanders will only be paid when such destruction is ordered by the State Veterinarian or his authorized representative. When the owner of the animals presents his claim he shall support same with the original report of the appraiser, together with the report of the inspector who destroyed the animal, to the State Veterinarian.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-910 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-910
§ 106-910. Violation of proclamation a misdemeanor
Status: in_force

Any person, firm or corporation who enters upon any woodlands or inland waters of the State for the purpose of hunting, fishing or trapping, or who builds a campfire or burns brush, grass or other debris within 500 feet of any woodland, after a proclamation has been issued by the Governor forbidding such activities, or who violates any other provisions of the Governor's proclamation with regard to permissible activities in closed woodlands shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-534-6 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-534-6
§ 15A-534.6. Bail in cases of manufacture of methamphetamine
Status: in_force

In all cases in which the defendant is charged with any violation of G.S. 90-95(b)(1a) or G.S. 90-95(d1)(2) b., in determining bond and other conditions of release, the magistrate, judge, or court shall consider any evidence that the person is in any manner dependent upon methamphetamine or has a pattern of regular illegal use of methamphetamine. A rebuttable presumption that no conditions of release on bond would assure the safety of the community or any person therein shall arise if the State shows by clear and convincing evidence both:

(1) The person was arrested for a violation of G.S. 90-95(b)(1a) or G.S. 90-95(d1)(2) b., relating to the manufacture of methamphetamine or possession of an immediate precursor chemical with knowledge or reasonable cause to know that the chemical will be used to manufacture methamphetamine.

(2) The person is in any manner dependent upon methamphetamine or has a pattern of regular illegal use of methamphetamine, and the violation referred to in subdivision (1) of this section was committed or attempted in order to maintain or facilitate the dependence or pattern of illegal use in any manner.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-634 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-634
§ 90-634. Enforcement; injunctive relief
Status: in_force

(a) It is unlawful for a person not licensed or exempted under this Article to engage in any of the following:

(1) Practice of massage and bodywork therapy.

(2) Advertise, represent, or hold out himself or herself to others to be a massage and bodywork therapist.

(3) Use any title descriptive of any branch of massage and bodywork therapy, as provided in G.S. 90-623 , to describe his or her practice.

(b) A person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

(b1) Unless exempt from the approval process, it is unlawful for an individual, association, partnership, corporation, or other entity to open, operate, or advertise a massage and bodywork therapy school without first having obtained the approval required by G.S. 90-631.1 .

(b2) An individual, association, partnership, corporation, or other entity that violates subsection (b1) of this section shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.

(b3) It is unlawful for a person, individual, association, partnership, corporation, or other entity to do any of the following:

(1) Employ, hire, engage, or otherwise contract with a person who is not licensed or exempted under this Article to provide massage and bodywork therapy services to the public.

(2) Aid and abet any person not licensed or exempted under this Article in the practice of massage and bodywork therapy.

(3) Advertise, represent, or hold out any person not licensed or exempted under this Article to others as a massage and bodywork therapist.

(4) Describe the practice of any person not licensed or exempted under this Article or use any title descriptive of any branch of massage and bodywork therapy to reference any such person in violation of G.S. 90-623 .

(b4) A person who violates subsection (b3) of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

(c) The Board may make application to superior court for an order enjoining a violation of this Article. Upon a showing by the Board that a person, association, partnership, corporation, or other entity has violated or is about to violate this Article, the court may grant an injunction, restraining order, or take other appropriate action.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 64-37 — NC Code / Chapter 64 / Section 64-37
§ 64-37. Rules
Status: in_force

The Commissioner may adopt rules needed to implement this Article.