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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-15-115 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-15-115
§ 58-15-115. Advisory committee
Status: in_force

The advisory committee exercising the subscribers' rights in a domestic reciprocal shall be selected under rules adopted by the subscribers. At least three-fourths of the committee shall comprise subscribers or their representatives other than the attorney or any person employed by, representing, or having a financial interest in the attorney. The committee shall supervise the finances of the reciprocal and the reciprocal's operations to the extent required to assure their conformity with the subscriber's agreement and power of attorney and shall exercise any other powers conferred on it by the subscriber's agreement.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-4-405 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-4-405
§ 25-4-405. Death or incompetence of customer
Status: in_force

(a) A payor or collecting bank's authority to accept, pay, or collect an item or to account for proceeds of its collection, if otherwise effective, is not rendered ineffective by incompetence of a customer of either bank existing at the time the item is issued or its collection is undertaken if the bank does not know of an adjudication of incompetence. Neither death nor incompetence of a customer revokes the authority to accept, pay, collect, or account until the bank knows of the fact of death or of an adjudication of incompetence and has reasonable opportunity to act on it.

(b) Even with knowledge, a bank may for ten days after the date of death pay or certify checks drawn on or before that date unless ordered to stop payment by a person claiming an interest in the account.

(c) A transaction, although subject to this Article, is also subject to G.S. 41-2.1 , 53C-6-6 , 54-109.58 , and 54B-129 , and in case of conflict between the provisions of this section and either of those sections, the provisions of those sections control.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 127A-73 — NC Code / Chapter 127A / Section 127A-73
§ 127A-73. Disbandment of naval militia
Status: in_force

No part of the naval militia which is entitled to compensation under the provisions of an act of Congress approved August 29, 1916, shall be disbanded without the consent of the President.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99E-40 — NC Code / Chapter 99E / Section 99E-40
§ 99E-40. Title
Status: in_force

This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Commonsense Consumption Act.”
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-94 — NC Code / Chapter 45 / Section 45-94
§ 45-94. Remedies
Status: in_force

In addition to any equitable remedies and any other remedies at law, any borrower injured by any violation of this Article may bring an action for recovery of actual damages, including reasonable attorneys' fees. The Commissioner of Banks, the Attorney General, or any party to a home loan may enforce the provisions of this section. With the exception of an action by the Commissioner of Banks or the Attorney General, at least 30 days before a borrower or a borrower's representative institutes a civil action for damages against a servicer for a violation of this Article, the borrower or a borrower's representative shall notify the servicer in writing of any claimed errors or disputes regarding the borrower's home loan that forms the basis of the civil action. The notice must be sent to the address as designated on any of the servicer's bills, statements, invoices, or other written communication, and must enable the servicer to identify the name and loan account of the borrower. For purposes of this section, notice shall not include a complaint or summons. Nothing in this section shall limit the rights of a borrower to enjoin a civil action, or make a counterclaim, cross-claim, or plead a defense in a civil action. A servicer will not be in violation of this Article if the servicer shows by a preponderance of evidence that:

(1) The violation was not intentional or the result of bad faith; and

(2) Within 30 days after discovering or being notified of an error, and prior to the institution of any legal action by the borrower against the servicer under this section, the servicer corrected the error and compensated the borrower for any fees or charges incurred by the borrower as a result of the violation.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-345-13 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-345-13
§ 143-345.13. Reporting of stocks of coal and petroleum fuels
Status: in_force

The Department of Administration may, with the prior express approval of the Energy Policy Council and the Governor, require that all coal and petroleum suppliers in North Carolina supplying coal, motor gasoline, middle distillates, residual oils, and propane for resale within the State, file with the Department of Administration, on forms prepared by the Department, accurate reports as to the stocks of coal and petroleum products and storage capacities maintained by the supplier, including the supplier's current inventory and stock of coal, motor gasoline, middle distillates, residual oils and propane, the expected time such supplies will last under ordinary distribution demand and the schedule for receiving additional or replacement stocks. The reports and the information contained therein shall be proprietary information available only to regular employees of the Department of Administration, except that aggregate tables or schedules consolidating information from the reports may be released if they do not reveal individual report data for any named supplier. It is further the intent of this section that no information shall be required from coal and petroleum suppliers, that is, at the time the reports are requested, already on file with any agency, commission, or department of State government.

It is the intent of this section that the reports be filed only at such times as the Energy Policy Council and the Governor determine that an energy crisis as defined in G.S. 113B-20 exists or may be imminent.

If any petroleum or coal supplier fails to file the accurate reports as may be required by this section for more than 10 days after the date on which any such report is due, the Secretary of Administration is authorized and empowered to petition the district court, Division of the General Court of Justice, in the county in which the principal office or place of business of the supplier is located, for a mandatory injunction compelling the supplier to file the report.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-71-10 — NC Code / Chapter 136 / Section 136-71-10
§ 136-71.10. Duties
Status: in_force

The Department will:

(1) Assist and cooperate with local governments and other agencies in the development and construction of local and regional bikeway projects;

(2) Develop and publish policies, procedures, and standards for planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, marking, and operating bikeways in the State; for the registration and security of bicycles; and for the safety of bicyclists, motorists and the public;

(3) Develop bikeway demonstration projects and safety training programs; [and]

(4) Develop and construct a State bikeway system.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-10-1 — NC Code / Chapter 148 / Section 148-10-1
§ 148-10.1. Employment of clinical chaplains for inmates
Status: in_force

The Division of Prisons of the Department of Adult Correction is authorized and directed to employ clinical chaplains to provide moral, spiritual and social counselling and ministerial services to inmates in the custody of the Secretary of the Department of Adult Correction. The Division of Prisons of the Department of Adult Correction shall seek to employ a diversity of qualified persons having differing faiths which are to the extent practicable reflective of the professed religious composition of the inmate population.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 110-102 — NC Code / Chapter 110 / Section 110-102
§ 110-102. Information for parents
Status: in_force

The Secretary shall provide to each operator of a child care facility a summary of this Article for the parents, guardian, or full-time custodian of each child receiving child care in the facility to be distributed by the operator. Operators of child care facilities shall provide a copy of the summary to each child's parent, guardian, or full-time custodian before the child is enrolled in the child care facility. The child's parent, guardian, or full-time custodian shall sign a statement attesting that he or she received a copy of the summary before the child's enrollment. The summary shall include the name and address of the Secretary and the address of the Commission. The summary shall explain how parents may obtain information on individual child care facilities maintained in public files by the Division of Child Development. The summary shall also include a statement regarding the mandatory duty prescribed in G.S. 7B-301 of any person suspecting child abuse or neglect has taken place in child care, or elsewhere, to report to the county Department of Social Services. The statement shall include the definitions of child abuse and neglect described in the Juvenile Code in G.S. 7B-101 and of child abuse described in the Criminal Code in G.S. 14-318.2 and G.S. 14-318.4 . The statement shall stress that this reporting law does not require that the person reporting reveal the person's identity.

The summary of this Article shall be posted with the facility's license in accordance with G.S. 110-99 . Religious-sponsored programs operating pursuant to G.S. 110-106 shall post the summary in a prominent place at all times so that it is easily reviewed by parents.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-312-9 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-312-9
§ 90-312.9. Data system
Status: in_force

(a) The Commission shall provide for the development, maintenance, and utilization of a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse action, and investigative information on all licensed individuals in member states.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law to the contrary, a member state shall submit a uniform data set to the data system on all individuals to whom this Compact is applicable as required by the rules of the Commission, including:

(1) Identifying information.

(2) Licensure data.

(3) Adverse actions against a license or compact privilege.

(4) Nonconfidential information related to alternative program participation.

(5) Any denial of application for licensure, and the reason(s) for denial.

(6) Other information that may facilitate the administration of this Compact, as determined by the rules of the Commission.

(c) Investigative information pertaining to a licensee in any member state shall only be available to other member states.

(d) The Commission shall promptly notify all member states of any adverse action taken against a licensee or an individual applying for a license. Adverse action information pertaining to a licensee in any member state shall be available to any other member state.

(e) Member states contributing information to the data system may designate information that may not be shared with the public without the express permission of the contributing state.

(f) Any information submitted to the data system that is subsequently required to be expunged by the laws of the member state contributing the information shall be removed from the data system.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-253 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-253
§ 15A-253. Scope of the search; seizure of items not named in the warrant
Status: in_force

The scope of the search may be only such as is authorized by the warrant and is reasonably necessary to discover the items specified therein. Upon discovery of the items specified, the officer must take possession or custody of them. If in the course of the search the officer inadvertently discovers items not specified in the warrant which are subject to seizure under G.S. 15A-242 , he may also take possession of the items so discovered.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 71A-5 — NC Code / Chapter 71A / Section 71A-5
§ 71A-5. Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe of North Carolina; rights, privileges, immunities, obligations and duties
Status: in_force

The Indians now residing in Halifax, Warren and adjoining counties of North Carolina, originally found by the first permanent white settlers on the Roanoke River in Halifax and Warren Counties, and who descend from the Saponi, Nansemond, and other tribes of Indians originally inhabiting the coastal regions of North Carolina, shall, from and after April 15, 1965, be designated and officially recognized as the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe, and they shall continue to enjoy all their rights, privileges and immunities as an American Indian Tribe with a recognized tribal governing body carrying out and exercising substantial governmental duties and powers similar to the State, being recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 120-77 — NC Code / Chapter 120 / Section 120-77
§ 120-77. Additional powers
Status: in_force

(a) The Commission, while in the discharge of official duties, shall have access to any paper or document, and may compel the attendance of any State official or employee before the Commission or secure any evidence under the provisions of G.S. 120-19 . In addition, the provisions of G.S. 120-19.1 through 120-19.4 shall apply to the proceedings of the Commission as if it were a joint committee of the General Assembly.

(b) Each cochair of the Commission shall designate one Commission staff member who shall have access to the BEACON/HR payroll system.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-131-34 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-131-34
§ 130A-131.34. Certificate renewal
Status: in_force

A certificate issued under this Part shall be valid for one calendar year. An out-of-school time program that wishes to create a new certificate for the subsequent year shall, by January 1 of the following year and thereafter, verify with the Department that the out-of-school time program continues to follow the HOST Recognition Program criteria established in accordance with G.S. 130A-131.33 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-226 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-226
§ 160A-226. Determination of costs
Status: in_force

When the project is complete, the council shall ascertain the total cost. In addition to construction costs, the cost of all necessary legal services, the amount of interest paid during construction, costs of rights-of-way, and the costs of publication of notices and resolutions may be included. The determination of the council as to the total cost of any project shall be conclusive.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 146-23-2 — NC Code / Chapter 146 / Section 146-23-2
§ 146-23.2. Purchase of buildings constructed or renovated to a certain energy-efficiency standard
Status: in_force

(a) A State agency shall not acquire by purchase any building unless the building was designed and constructed to at least the same standards for energy efficiency and water use that the design and construction of a comparable State building was required to meet at the time the building under consideration for purchase was constructed. Further, a State agency shall not acquire by purchase any building that had a major renovation unless the major renovation of the building was designed and constructed to at least the same standards for energy efficiency and water use that the design and construction of a major renovation of a comparable State building was required to meet at the time the building under consideration for purchase was renovated.

(b) This section does not apply to the purchase of a building having historic, architectural, or cultural significance under Part 4 of Article 2 of Chapter 143B of the General Statutes. This section does not apply to buildings that are acquired by devise or gift.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 31D-2-205 — NC Code / Chapter 31D / Section 31D-2-205
§ 31D-2-205. Rules of classification
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, the term “ adverse party ” means a person with a substantial beneficial interest in property who would be affected adversely by a power holder's exercise or nonexercise of a power of appointment in favor of the power holder, the power holder's estate, a creditor of the power holder, or a creditor of the power holder's estate.

(b) If a power holder may exercise a power of appointment only with the consent or joinder of an adverse party, the power is nongeneral.

(c) If the permissible appointees of a power of appointment are not defined and limited, the power is exclusionary.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-2A-15 — NC Code / Chapter 28A / Section 28A-2A-15
§ 28A-2A-15. Certified copy of will proved in another state or country
Status: in_force

When a will, made by a citizen of this State, is proved and allowed in some other state or country, and the original will cannot be removed from its place of legal deposit in such other state or country, for probate in this State, the clerk of the superior court of the county where the testator had his last usual residence or has any property, upon a duly certified copy or exemplification of such will being exhibited to him for probate, shall take every order and proceeding for proving, allowing and recording such copy as by law might be taken upon the production of the original.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-40-5 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-40-5
§ 58-40-5. Definitions
Status: reserved

As used in this Article:

(1) Repealed by S.L. 2005-210, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 2005 .

(2) Repealed by Laws 1991, c. 720, § 6 .

(3) “ Inland marine insurance ” shall be deemed to include insurance now or hereafter defined by statute, or by interpretation thereof, or if not so defined or interpreted, by ruling of the Commissioner or as established by general custom of the business, as inland marine insurance.

(4) “ Member ,” unless otherwise apparent from the context, means an insurer who participates in or is entitled to participate in the management of a statistical organization.

(5) Repealed by S.L. 2005-210, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 2005 .

(5a) “ Statistical organization ” means every person, other than an admitted insurer, whether located within or outside this State, who performs one or more of the following functions:

a. Prepares policy forms or makes underwriting rules incident to, but not including, the making of rates, or rating plans or rating systems.

b. Collects and furnishes to admitted insurers or statistical organizations loss or expense statistics or other statistical information and data and acts in an advisory rather than a rate-making capacity. No duly authorized attorney-at-law acting in the usual course of his profession shall be deemed to be a statistical organization.

c. Makes rates, rating plans or rating systems, or develops loss costs. Two or more insurers that act in concert for the purpose of making rates, rating plans or rating systems, or developing loss costs and that do not operate within the specific authorizations contained in G.S. 58-40-60 , 58-40-65 , 58-40-70 , and 58-40-75 shall be deemed to be a statistical organization.

d. Collects data and statistics from insurers and provides reports from these statistics to the Commissioner for the purpose of fulfilling the statistical reporting obligations of those insurers.

(5b) “ Statistical plan ” means the document used by a statistical organization to set forth which data elements are to be reported to the statistical organization and to describe the format in which the data must be reported.

(6) “ Subscriber ,” unless otherwise apparent from the context, means an insurer which is furnished at its request (i) with rates and rating manuals by a statistical organization of which it is not a member, or (ii) with advisory services by a statistical organization of which it is not a member.

(7) “ Willful ” means in relation to an act or omission which constitutes a violation of this Article with actual knowledge or belief that such act or omission constitutes such violation and with specific intent to commit such violation.

(8), (9) Repealed by Laws 1987, c. 864, § 66.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-31A-35 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-31A-35
§ 58-31A-35. Information to be furnished prior to insuring in Fund; providing for payment of premiums
Status: in_force

Public education boards shall, at least 90 days before insuring in the Fund, furnish to the Commissioner a complete and detailed list of all public education buildings and contents of those buildings and other insurable public education property, together with an estimate of the present value of the property. Valuation for purposes of insuring in the Fund shall be reached by agreement in accordance with the procedure established for adjustment of losses. Public education boards and the tax-levying authority shall be required to provide for the payment of premiums for insurance on the school properties of each public education board, respectively, to the extent of not less than eighty percent (80%) of the current insurable value of the said properties, including the insurance in property insurance companies and the insurance provided by the Fund.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-36-6 — NC Code / Chapter 95 / Section 95-36-6
§ 95-36.6. Appointment of arbitrators
Status: in_force

The parties may by agreement determine the method of appointment of the arbitrator or arbitration panel. If the parties have agreed upon arbitration under this Article and have not otherwise agreed upon the number of arbitrators or the method for their appointment, the controversy shall be heard and decided by a single arbitrator designated in such manner as the Commissioner of Labor shall determine. Any person or agency selected by agreement or otherwise to appoint an arbitrator or arbitrators shall send by registered mail to each of the parties to the proposed proceeding notice of the demand for arbitration. The arbitrator or arbitration panel, as the case may be, shall have such powers and duties as are conferred by the voluntary agreement of the parties, and, if there is no agreement to the contrary, shall have power to decide the arbitrability as well as the merits of the dispute.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-20-10 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-20-10
§ 58-20-10. Commercial Fishermen Hull Insurance, and Protection and Indemnity Clubs authorized
Status: in_force

In addition to other authority granted under Articles 1 through 64 of this Chapter, ten or more commercial fishermen who are members of an association may enter into contracts or agreements under this Article for the joint protection and retention of their risk for Hull Insurance, and Protection and Indemnity, and for the payment of losses or claims made against any member. Any group of commercial fishermen intending to organize and operate a Club under this Article shall give the Commissioner 30 days' advance written notification of its intention in a form prescribed by the Commissioner.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-345-2 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-345-2
§ 143-345.2. Disorderly conduct in and injury to public buildings and grounds
Status: in_force

Any person who commits a nuisance or conducts himself in a disorderly manner in or around any public building or grounds, or defaces or injures any public building or grounds, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 54B-102 — NC Code / Chapter 54B / Section 54B-102
§ 54B-102. Employment policies
Status: in_force

Employment policies appropriate for the transaction of the business of a State association may be set forth in the bylaws or established by resolution of the board of directors.