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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 116-244 — NC Code / Chapter 116 / Section 116-244
§ 116-244. Duties of board of directors
Status: in_force

The Board of Directors of the Arboretum has the following duties and responsibilities:

(1) Development of the policies and procedures concerning the use of the land and facilities being developed as part of the Western North Carolina Arboretum, Inc.;

(2) Approval of plans for any buildings to be constructed on the facility;

(3) Maintenance and upkeep of buildings and all properties;

(4) Approval of permanent appointments to the staff of the Arboretum;

(5) Recommendations to The University of North Carolina System Office of candidates for Executive Director of the Arboretum;

(6) Recommendations to The University of North Carolina System Office for necessary termination of the Executive Director or other personnel of the Arboretum;

(7) Ensurance of appropriate liaison between the Arboretum and the U. S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, The North Carolina Arboretum Society, Inc., Bent Creek Institute, Inc., Centers for Environmental and Climatic Interaction, Inc., NOAA Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, and other scientific and economic development agencies and organizations of interest to and involved in the work at the Arboretum;

(8) Development of various policies and directives, including the duties of the Executive Director, to be prepared jointly by the members of the Board of Directors and the Executive Director;

(9) Approval of annual expenditures and budget requests to be submitted to The University of North Carolina System Office.

The Board of Directors shall meet at least twice a year, and more frequently on the call of the Chair or at the request of at least 10 members of the Board. Meetings shall be held at the Arboretum, any campus of a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina, or at other public locations in support of the Arboretum mission and purposes.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 131D-35 — NC Code / Chapter 131D / Section 131D-35
§ 131D-35. Temporary management of adult care homes
Status: in_force

The provisions of Article 13 of Chapter 131E are incorporated by reference in this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 87-22-1 — NC Code / Chapter 87 / Section 87-22-1
§ 87-22.1. Examination fees; funds disbursed upon warrant of chairman and secretary-treasurer
Status: in_force

The Board shall charge a nonrefundable application and examination fee not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) for each examination or any part of an examination, and the funds collected shall be disbursed upon warrant of the chairman and secretary-treasurer, to partially defray general expenses of the Board. The application and examination fee shall be retained by the Board whether or not the applicant is granted a license. Until changed by the Board pursuant to rules adopted by the Board, the fee for each examination or any part taken on a particular day shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00).
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-3-245 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-3-245
§ 58-3-245. Provider directories; cost tools for insured
Status: in_force

(a) Every health benefit plan utilizing a provider network shall maintain a provider directory that includes a listing of network providers available to insureds and shall update the listing no less frequently than once a year. In addition, every health benefit plan shall maintain a telephone system and may maintain an electronic or on-line system through which insureds can access up-to-date network information. The health benefit plan shall ensure that a patient is provided accurate and current information on each provider's network status through the telephone system and any electronic or online system. If the health benefit plan produces printed directories, the directories shall contain language disclosing the date of publication, frequency of updates, that the directory listing may not contain the latest network information, and contact information for accessing up-to-date network information.

(b) Each directory listing shall include the following network information:

(1) The provider's name, address, telephone number, and, if applicable, area of specialty.

(2) Whether the provider may be selected as a primary care provider.

(3) To the extent known to the health benefit plan, an indication of whether the provider:

a. Is or is not currently accepting new patients.

b. Has any other restrictions that would limit an insured's access to that provider.

(c) The directory listing shall include all of the types of participating providers. Upon a participating provider's written request, the insurer shall also list in the directory, as part of the participating provider's listing, the names of any allied health professionals who provide primary care services under the supervision of the participating provider and whose services are covered by virtue of the insurer's contract with the supervising participating provider and whose credentials have been verified by the supervising participating provider. These allied health professionals shall be listed as a part of the directory listing for the participating provider upon receipt of a certification by the supervising participating provider that the credentials of the allied health professional have been verified consistent with the requirements for the type of information required to be verified under G.S. 58-3-230 .

(d) A health care provider shall provide to a patient or prospective patient, upon request, information on that provider's network status with a particular health benefit plan.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-382 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-382
§ 130A-382. County medical examiners; appointment; term of office; vacancies; training requirements; revocation for cause
Status: in_force

(a) The Chief Medical Examiner shall appoint two or more county medical examiners for each county for a three-year term. In appointing medical examiners for each county, the Chief Medical Examiner shall give preference to physicians licensed to practice medicine in this State but may also appoint licensed physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, or emergency medical technician paramedics. A medical examiner may serve more than one county. The Chief Medical Examiner may take jurisdiction in any case or appoint another medical examiner to do so.

(b) County medical examiners shall complete continuing education training as directed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and based upon established and published guidelines for conducting death investigations. The continuing education training shall include training regarding sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall annually update and publish these guidelines on its Internet Web site. Newly appointed county medical examiners shall complete mandatory orientation training as directed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner within 90 days of their appointment.

(c) The Chief Medical Examiner may revoke a county medical examiner's appointment for failure to adequately perform the duties of the office after providing the county medical examiner with written notice of the basis for the revocation and an opportunity to respond.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-270-1 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-270-1
§ 115C-270.1. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Article, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) Administrator .--An administrator or supervisor who serves in general and program administrator roles, as classified by the State Board. Administrators shall include superintendents, assistant or associate superintendents, principals, assistant principals, or curriculum-instructional specialists.

(2) Professional educator .--An administrator, teacher, or student services personnel.

(3) Recognized educator preparation program or recognized EPP.--As defined in G.S. 115C-269.1(15) .

(4) Student services personnel .--An individual providing specialized assistance to students, teachers, administrators, or the education program in general, as classified by the State Board. Student services personnel shall include individuals employed in school counseling, school social work, school psychology, audiology, speech-language pathology, and media coordination.

(5) Teacher .--An individual whose major responsibility is to either teach or directly supervise teaching, as classified by the State Board.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-2-95 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-2-95
§ 58-2-95. Commissioner to supervise local inspectors
Status: in_force

The Commissioner shall exercise general supervision over local investigators of fires and fire prevention inspectors. Whenever the Commissioner has reason to believe that the local inspectors are not doing their duty, he or his deputy shall make special trips of inspection and take proper steps to have all the provisions of the law relative to the investigation of fires and the prevention of fire waste enforced.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-284-37 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-284-37
§ 106-284.37. Misbranding
Status: in_force

A commercial feed shall be deemed to be misbranded:

(1) If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular.

(2) If it is distributed under the name of another commercial feed.

(3) If it is not labeled as required in G.S. 106-284.35 .

(4) If it purports to be or is represented as a commercial feed, or if it purports to contain or is represented as containing a commercial feed ingredient, unless such commercial feed or feed ingredient conforms to the definition, if any, prescribed by regulation by the Board.

(5) If any word, statement, or other information required by or under authority of this Article to appear on the label or labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness (as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices in the labeling) and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 53-163-9 — NC Code / Chapter 53 / Section 53-163-9
§ 53-163.9. Short title
Status: in_force

This Part may be cited as the Uniform Common Trust Fund Act.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 159G-42 — NC Code / Chapter 159G / Section 159G-42
§ 159G-42. Disbursement of loan or grant
Status: in_force

The Department must disburse the proceeds of a loan or grant to a recipient in a series of payments based on the progress of the project for which the loan or grant was awarded. To obtain a payment, a loan or grant recipient must submit a request for payment to the Department and document the expenditures for which the payment is requested.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 18B-1202 — NC Code / Chapter 18B / Section 18B-1202
§ 18B-1202. No inducement, coercion, or discrimination
Status: in_force

No winery may:

(1) Induce, coerce, or attempt to induce or coerce any wine wholesaler to accept delivery of any alcoholic beverage or any other commodity which has not been ordered by the wine wholesaler;

(2) Induce, coerce, or attempt to induce or coerce any wine wholesaler to do any illegal act by any means, including threatening to amend, cancel, terminate, or refuse to renew any agreement existing between a winery and a wine wholesaler;

(3) Require a wine wholesaler to assent to any condition, stipulation, or provision limiting the wholesaler in his privilege to sell a product offered by any other winery;

(4) Unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, sex, religion, or national origin in awarding or maintaining agreements covered by this Article. Wineries who contract with wholesalers in this State shall make reasonable efforts to establish and maintain agreements with wholesalers who are females and members of minority groups.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-30-215 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-30-215
§ 58-30-215. Secured creditor's claims
Status: in_force

(a) The value of any security held by a secured creditor shall be determined in one of the following ways, as the Court may direct:

(1) By converting the same into money according to the terms of the agreement pursuant to which the security was delivered to such creditors; or

(2) By agreement, arbitration, compromise or litigation between the creditor and the liquidator.

(b) The determination shall be under the supervision and control of the Court with due regard for the recommendation of the liquidator. The amount so determined shall be credited upon the secured claim, and any deficiency shall be treated as an unsecured claim. If the claimant surrenders his security to the liquidator, the entire claim shall be allowed as if unsecured.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 122D-17 — NC Code / Chapter 122D / Section 122D-17
§ 122D-17. Bonds as legal investment and security for public deposits
Status: in_force

Obligations issued under the provisions of this Chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the State and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies, banking associations, investment companies, executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such obligations are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any State or municipal officer or any agency or political subdivision of the State for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds, notes or obligations of the State is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-8-115 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-8-115
§ 25-8-115. Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant
Status: reserved

A securities intermediary that has transferred a financial asset pursuant to an effective entitlement order, or a broker or other agent or bailee that has dealt with a financial asset at the direction of its customer or principal, is not liable to a person having an adverse claim to the financial asset, unless the securities intermediary, or broker or other agent or bailee:

(1) Took the action after it had been served with an injunction, restraining order, or other legal process enjoining it from doing so, issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, and had a reasonable opportunity to act on the injunction, restraining order, or other legal process; or

(2) Acted in collusion with the wrongdoer in violating the rights of the adverse claimant; or

(3) In the case of a security certificate that has been stolen, acted with notice of the adverse claim.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-4-4 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-4-4
§ 130A-4.4. Funds for AIDS Drug Assistance Program
Status: in_force

The Department shall work with the Department of Adult Correction to use Department of Adult Correction funds to purchase pharmaceuticals for the treatment of individuals in the custody of the Department of Adult Correction who have been diagnosed with Human Immunodeficiency Virus or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in a manner that allows these funds to be accounted for as State matching funds in the Department of Health and Human Services drawdown of federal Ryan White funds earmarked for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program also known as ADAP.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75A-1 — NC Code / Chapter 75A / Section 75A-1
§ 75A-1. Declaration of policy
Status: in_force

It is the policy of this State to promote safety for persons and property in and connected with the use, operation, and equipment of vessels, and to promote uniformity of laws relating thereto.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-451-18 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-451-18
§ 106-451.18. Receipts for cotton stored
Status: in_force

For all cotton stored in a warehouse licensed under this Article original receipts shall be issued by the warehouseman conducting the same, but no receipt shall be issued except for cotton actually stored in the warehouse at the time of the issuance thereof.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-97 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-97
§ 115C-97. State Board of Education authorized to discontinue handling supplementary and library books
Status: reserved

The State Board of Education may discontinue the adoption of supplementary textbooks and, at the expiration of existing contracts, may discontinue the purchase, warehousing, and distribution of supplementary textbooks. The Board may also discontinue the purchase and resale of library books. Funds appropriated to the State Board of Education for supplementary textbooks shall be transferred to the State Public School Fund for allotment to each local school administrative unit, based on its average daily membership, for the purchase of supplementary textbooks, library books, periodicals, and other instructional materials.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-3509 — NC Code / Chapter 7B / Section 7B-3509
§ 7B-3509. Application of common law
Status: in_force

A married juvenile is emancipated by this Article. All other common-law provisions for emancipation are superseded by this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-309-71 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-309-71
§ 130A-309.71. Retailers required to accept lead-acid batteries for recycling; posting of notice required
Status: in_force

(a) A person who sells or offers for sale lead-acid batteries at retail in this State shall accept from customers, at the point of transfer or sale, used lead-acid batteries of the type and in a quantity at least equal to the number of new batteries purchased, if offered by customers.

(b) A person who sells or offers for sale lead-acid batteries at retail in this State shall post written notice which must be at least 8 1 / 2 inches by 11 inches in size and must contain the universal recycling symbol and the following language:

(1) “It is illegal to improperly dispose of a motor vehicle battery or other lead-acid battery.”

(2) “Recycle your used batteries.”

(3) “State law requires us to accept used motor vehicle batteries or other lead-acid batteries for recycling in exchange for new batteries purchased.”

(c) Any person who fails to post the notice required by subsection (b) of this section after receiving a written warning from the Department to do so shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) per day for each day the person fails to post the required notice.

The clear proceeds of civil penalties assessed pursuant to this section shall be remitted to the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund in accordance with G.S. 115C-457.2 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-312-6 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-312-6
§ 90-312.6. Active duty military personnel or their spouses
Status: in_force

Active duty military personnel, or their spouses, shall designate a home state where the individual has a current license in good standing. The individual may retain the home state designation during the period the service member is on active duty. Subsequent to designating a home state, the individual shall only change their home state through application for licensure in the new state.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 53-285 — NC Code / Chapter 53 / Section 53-285
§ 53-285. Cease and desist orders
Status: in_force

If the Commissioner determines that a person required to be licensed under this Article has violated this Article or rules adopted pursuant to it, then the Commissioner may, upon notice and opportunity for hearing in accordance with Article 3A of Chapter 150B of the General Statutes, order the person to cease and desist from the violations and to comply with this Article. The Commissioner may enforce compliance with an order issued pursuant to this section by the imposition and collection of civil penalties authorized under this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-33A-50 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-33A-50
§ 58-33A-50. Bond or letter of credit
Status: in_force

(a) Before issuance of a license as a public adjuster and for the duration of the license, the applicant shall secure evidence of financial responsibility in a format prescribed by the Commissioner through any of the following instruments:

(1) A bond executed and issued by an insurer authorized to issue bonds in this State which meets all of the following requirements:

a. It shall be in the minimum amount of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).

b. It shall be in favor of this State and shall specifically authorize recovery by the Commissioner on behalf of any person in this State who sustained damages as the result of erroneous acts, failure to act, conviction of fraud, or conviction of unfair practices in his or her capacity as a public adjuster.

c. It shall not be terminated unless at least 30 days' prior written notice will have been filed with the Commissioner and given to the licensee.

(2) An irrevocable letter of credit issued by a qualified financial institution, which meets all of the following requirements:

a. It shall be in the minimum amount of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).

b. It shall be to an account to the Commissioner and subject to lawful levy of execution on behalf of any person to whom the public adjuster has been found to be legally liable as the result of erroneous acts, failure to act, fraudulent acts, or unfair practices in his or her capacity as a public adjuster.

c. It shall not be terminated unless at least 30 days' prior written notice will have been filed with the Commissioner and given to the licensee.

(b) The issuer of the evidence of financial responsibility shall notify the Commissioner upon termination of the bond or letter of credit, unless otherwise directed by the Commissioner.

(c) The Commissioner may ask for the evidence of financial responsibility at any time he or she deems relevant.

(d) The authority to act as a public adjuster shall automatically terminate if the evidence of financial responsibility terminates or becomes impaired.