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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-26-5 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-26-5
§ 58-26-5. Certificate of authority to do business
Status: in_force

Before any such company may issue any policy or make any contract or guarantee of insurance, it shall file with the Commissioner a certified copy of the record or the certificate of its organization in the office of the Secretary of State, and obtain from the Commissioner his certificate that it has complied with the laws applicable to it and that it is authorized to do business.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-204 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-204
§ 115C-204. Purpose of Article
Status: in_force

The purpose of this Article is to encourage greater community involvement in the public schools and greater community use of public school facilities. To this end it is declared to be the policy of this State:

(1) To provide for increased involvement by citizens in their local schools through community schools advisory councils.

(2) To assure maximum use of public school facilities by the citizens of each community in this State.

It is further declared to be the policy of this State that, to the extent sufficient funds are made available, each local board of education shall comply with the provisions of this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-3-235 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-3-235
§ 58-3-235. Selection of specialist as primary care provider
Status: in_force

(a) Each insurer that offers a health benefit plan shall have a procedure by which an insured diagnosed with a serious or chronic degenerative, disabling, or life-threatening disease or condition, either of which requires specialized medical care may select as his or her primary care physician a specialist with expertise in treating the disease or condition who shall be responsible for and capable of providing and coordinating the insured's primary and specialty care. If the insurer determines that the insured's care would not be appropriately coordinated by that specialist, the insurer may deny access to that specialist as a primary care provider.

(b) The selection of the specialist shall be made under a treatment plan approved by the insurer, in consultation with the specialist and the insured or the insured's designee and after notice to the insured's primary care provider, if any. The specialist may provide ongoing care to the insured and may authorize such referrals, procedures, tests, and other medical services as the insured's primary care provider would otherwise be allowed to provide or authorize, subject to the terms of the treatment plan. Services provided by a specialist who is providing and coordinating primary and specialty care remain subject to utilization review and other requirements of the insurer, including its requirements for primary care providers.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-135-104 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-135-104
§ 143B-135.104. Location of trails
Status: in_force

When a route shall traverse land within the jurisdiction of a governmental unit or political subdivision, the Department shall consult with such unit or such subdivision prior to its final determination of the location of the route. The selected route shall be compatible with preservation or enhancement of the environment it traverses. Reasonable effort shall be made to minimize any adverse effects upon adjacent landowners and users. Notice of the selected route shall be published by the Department, together with appropriate maps and descriptions to be conspicuously posted online and at the proposed trail location. Such publication shall be prior to the designation of the trail by the Secretary.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-272 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-272
§ 106-272. Cooperation of other departments with Board; rules and regulations
Status: in_force

Insofar as any of the State departments or agencies shall have to do with the testing, development, production, certification and distribution of farm crop seeds, such departments or agencies shall actively cooperate with the said Board in carrying out the purposes of this Article. The said Board shall have authority to make, establish and promulgate all needful rules and regulations, for certification necessary for the proper exercise of the duties conferred upon said Board and for the carrying out the full purposes of this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-103 — NC Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14-103
§ 14-103. Obtaining certificate of registration of animals by false representation
Status: in_force

If any person shall, by any false representation or pretense, with intent to defraud or cheat, obtain from any club, association, society or company for the improvement of the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, fowls or other domestic animals or birds, a certificate of registration of any animal in the herd register of any such association, society or company, or a transfer of any such registration, upon conviction thereof, the person is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-725 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-725
§ 90-725. Listing requirements
Status: in_force

(a) Annual Listing.--A person may not practice polysomnography under this Article unless the person is listed with the Medical Board. In order to be listed with the Medical Board, a person must annually submit on or before September 1 of each year all of the following information to the Medical Board in the manner prescribed by the Medical Board:

(1) The person's full legal name.

(2) The person's complete address and telephone number.

(3) Evidence that the person is currently credentialed in good standing by the Board as a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT).

(4) The date the person was credentialed by the Board to practice polysomnography.

(5) A nonrefundable listing fee of fifty dollars ($50.00).

(b) Listing.--The Medical Board must maintain a listing of polysomnographic technologists that have submitted proof of credentials under this section. The Board must promptly notify the Medical Board, by mail or electronic means, when a person's credential is revoked or no longer in effect. Upon receipt of this notification, the Medical Board must remove the person's name from the list.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 108A-55-1 — NC Code / Chapter 108A / Section 108A-55-1
§ 108A-55.1. Medicare enrollment required
Status: in_force

The Department shall require State Medical Assistance Program recipients who qualify for Medicare to enroll in Medicare, in accordance with Title XIX of the Social Security Act, in order to pay medical expenditures that qualify for payment under Medicare Parts B and D, except that enrollment in Part D is not required if the recipient has creditable prescription drug coverage as defined by federal law.

Failure to enroll in Medicare shall result in nonpayment of these expenditures under the State Medical Assistance Program. A provider may seek payment for services from Medicaid enrollees who are eligible for but not enrolled in Medicare Parts B and D.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-59 — NC Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-59
§ 20-59. Unlawful for lienor who holds certificate of title not to surrender same when lien satisfied
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful and constitute a Class 3 misdemeanor for a lienor who holds a certificate of title as provided in this Article to refuse or fail to surrender such certificate of title to the person legally entitled thereto, when called upon by such person, within 10 days after his lien shall have been paid and satisfied.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-1-102 — NC Code / Chapter 36C / Section 36C-1-102
§ 36C-1-102. Scope
Status: in_force

This Chapter applies to any express trust, private or charitable, with additions to the trust, wherever and however created. The term “ express trust ” includes both testamentary and inter vivos trusts, regardless of whether the trustee is required to account to the clerk of superior court. This Chapter also applies to any trust created for or determined by judgment or decree under which the trust is to be administered in the manner of an express trust. This Chapter does not apply to constructive trusts, resulting trusts, conservatorships, estates, Payable on Death accounts as defined in G.S. 53C-6-7 , 54-109.57 , 54B-130 , and 54C-166 , trust funds subject to G.S. 90-210.61 , custodial arrangements under Chapter 33A of the General Statutes and Chapter 33B of the General Statutes, business trusts providing for certificates to be issued to beneficiaries, common trust funds, voting trusts, security arrangements, liquidation trusts, and trusts for the primary purpose of paying debts, dividends, interest, salaries, wages, profits, pensions, or employee benefits of any kind, or any arrangement under which a person is nominee or escrowee for another.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-417-1 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-417-1
§ 106-417.1. Civil penalties
Status: in_force

The Commissioner may assess a civil penalty of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) against any person who violates a provision of this Article or any rule promulgated thereunder. In determining the amount of the penalty, the Commissioner shall consider the degree and extent of harm caused by the violation.

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. § 25-4A-103 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-4A-103
§ 25-4A-103. Payment order -- definitions
Status: in_force

(a) In this Article:

(1) “Payment order” means an instruction of a sender to a receiving bank, transmitted orally, electronically, or in writing, to pay, or to cause another bank to pay, a fixed or determinable amount of money to a beneficiary if:

(i) The instruction does not state a condition of payment to the beneficiary other than time of payment,

(ii) The receiving bank is to be reimbursed by debiting an account of, or otherwise receiving payment from, the sender, and

(iii) The instruction is transmitted by the sender directly to the receiving bank or to an agent, funds-transfer system, or communication system for transmittal to the receiving bank.

(2) “Beneficiary” means the person to be paid by the beneficiary's bank.

(3) “Beneficiary's bank” means the bank identified in a payment order in which an account of the beneficiary is to be credited pursuant to the order or which otherwise is to make payment to the beneficiary if the order does not provide for payment to an account.

(4) “Receiving bank” means the bank to which the sender's instruction is addressed.

(5) “Sender” means the person giving the instruction to the receiving bank.

(b) If an instruction complying with subsection (a)(1) is to make more than one payment to a beneficiary, the instruction is a separate payment order with respect to each payment.

(c) A payment order is issued when it is sent to the receiving bank.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 93A-39 — NC Code / Chapter 93A / Section 93A-39
§ 93A-39. Title
Status: in_force

This Article shall be known and may be cited as the “North Carolina Timeshare Act.”
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-70 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-70
§ 143B-70. Public Librarian Certification Commission--regular and special meetings
Status: in_force

The Public Librarian Certification Commission shall meet at least once in each quarter and may hold special meetings at any time and place within the State at the call of the chairman or upon the written request of at least three members.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-86-65 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-86-65
§ 58-86-65. Pro rata reduction of benefits when fund insufficient to pay in full
Status: in_force

If, for any reason, the fund created and made available for any purpose covered by this Article shall be insufficient to pay in full any pension benefits, or other charges, then all benefits or payments shall be reduced pro rata, for as long as the deficiency in amount exists. No claim shall accrue with respect to any amount by which a pension or benefit payment shall have been reduced.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 86B-30 — NC Code / Chapter 86B / Section 86B-30
§ 86B-30. Mobile barbershops
Status: in_force

(a) A motor home as defined in Article 1 of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes may be used as a mobile barbershop for the practice of barbering.

(b) The Board shall issue a permit to operate a mobile barbershop to any applicant who submits a properly completed application on a form approved by the Board, pays the required fee, and is determined after inspection to be in compliance with the provisions of this Chapter and the Board's rules.

(c) The Board shall adopt rules for the operation, permitting, and inspection of mobile barbershops, including standards for facilities, personnel, and safety and sanitary requirements. All permitting and operating requirements provided by this Chapter or by rules adopted by the Board pursuant to this Chapter that apply to barbershops shall also apply to mobile barbershops, except to the extent that the requirements conflict with this section or with any rules adopted by the Board pursuant to this section.

(d) In addition to the requirements of this Chapter, individuals and the vehicles they operate while providing mobile barbershop services shall be subject to the provisions of (i) Chapter 20 of the General Statutes , (ii) Title 19A of the North Carolina Administrative Code, (iii) all applicable OSHA requirements, and (iv) all local laws and ordinances regulating business establishments.

(e) A mobile barbershop must be equipped with a functional sink and toilet facilities and must maintain an adequate supply of clean water and wastewater storage capacity.

(f) No barbering or service may be performed in a mobile barbershop while the barbershop is moving. The mobile barbershop must be safely parked in a legal parking spot at all times while patrons are present inside the mobile barbershop.

(g) A mobile barbershop owner must maintain a permanent business address at which records of appointments, itineraries, license numbers, and vehicle identification numbers for each mobile barbershop being operated shall be kept and made available for verification and inspection by the Board and at which all correspondence from the Board can be received.

(h) To facilitate periodic inspections of mobile barbershops, prior to the beginning of each month, the owner of the barbershop shall provide to the Board a written monthly itinerary listing locations, dates, and hours of operation for the barbershop.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 113-17 — NC Code / Chapter 113 / Section 113-17
§ 113-17. Agreements, negotiations and conferences with federal government
Status: in_force

The Department is delegated as the State agency to represent North Carolina in any agreements, negotiations, or conferences with authorized agencies of adjoining or other states, or agencies of the federal government, relating to the joint administration or control over the surface or underground waters passing or flowing from one state to another under the provisions of this section.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28B-3 — NC Code / Chapter 28B / Section 28B-3
§ 28B-3. Notice; hearing; guardian ad litem
Status: in_force

(a) Notice of the hearing on the complaint to appoint a receiver shall be given to all persons named in the petition by registered mail or certified mail with return receipt requested.

(b) The judge shall hear evidence on the questions of whether the person alleged to be missing or captured is an absentee in military service as defined by G.S. 28B-1 , on the question of the necessity for the appointment of a receiver, and on the question of who is entitled to appointment as the receiver.

(c) The court may in its discretion appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the alleged absentee in military service at the hearing.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 39-5 — NC Code / Chapter 39 / Section 39-5
§ 39-5. Official deed, when official selling or empowered to sell is not in office
Status: reserved

When a sheriff, coroner, or tax collector, in virtue of his office, sells any real or personal property and goes out of office before executing a proper deed therefor, he may execute the same after his term of office has expired; and when he dies or removes from the State before executing the deed, his successor in office shall execute it. When a sheriff or tax collector dies having a tax list in his hands for collection, and his personal representative or surety, in collecting the taxes, makes sale according to law, his successor in office shall execute the conveyance for the property to the person entitled.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-4A-102 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-4A-102
§ 25-4A-102. Subject matter
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in G.S. 25-4A-108 , this Article applies to funds transfers defined in G.S. 25-4A-104 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 111-47-4 — NC Code / Chapter 111 / Section 111-47-4
§ 111-47.4. Food service at North Carolina Zoological Park
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, the North Carolina Zoological Park may operate or contract for the operation of food or vending services at the North Carolina Zoological Park. Notwithstanding G.S. 111-43 , the net proceeds of revenue generated by food and vending services operated by the North Carolina Zoological Park or a vendor with whom the North Carolina Zoological Park has contracted shall be credited to the North Carolina Zoo Fund.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-135-212 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-135-212
§ 143B-135.212. Cities and counties
Status: in_force

Cities and counties are hereby authorized to expend funds derived from nontax sources and to make gifts of surplus property, to assist in carrying out the purposes of this Part.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-507-21 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-507-21
§ 1-507.21. Applicability of Article and of common law
Status: in_force

(a) Application of Article.--Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this Article applies to receiverships pursuant to any provision of the General Statutes, as well as any receiverships instituted under common law and the equitable power of the courts, in each case in which the debtor is an entity or an individual business debtor.

(b) Exclusions.--This Article does not apply to any receivership in which (i) the receiver is a State agency or in which the receiver is appointed, controlled, or regulated by a State agency unless otherwise provided by law or (ii) the receiver is appointed for a ward or a ward's estate pursuant to G.S. 35A-1294 . No trust other than a business trust, no estate of a deceased individual, missing person, or absentee in military service, and no individual other than an individual business debtor may be a debtor in a receivership under this Article, and this Article shall not apply to receiverships of such persons. Nothing in this Article shall be construed in a manner that permits a receiver to seize an interest of the debtor in property that is not receivership property.

(c) Article Supplemental.--Unless explicitly displaced by a particular provision of this Article, the provisions of other statutory law and the principles of common law and equity remain in full force and effect and supplement the provisions of this Article.

(d) This Article shall not deny the right of an individual business debtor or an entity for which a limited receiver has been appointed pursuant to this Article to file a case under Title 11 of the United States Code.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 54-109-88 — NC Code / Chapter 54 / Section 54-109-88
§ 54-109.88. “Risk assets” defined
Status: in_force

For the purpose of establishing the reserves required by G.S. 54-109.86 , all assets except the following shall be considered risk assets:

(1) Cash on hand.

(2) Deposits and shares in federal or State banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions.

(3) Assets which are issued by, fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by, or due from the U.S. government, its agencies, Fannie Mae, or the Government National Mortgage Association.

(4) Loans to other credit unions.

(5) Loans to students insured under the provision of Title IV, Part B of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1071, et seq. ) or similar state insurance programs.

(6) Loans insured under Title I of the National Housing Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1703 ) by the Federal Housing Administration.

(7) Shares or deposits in central credit unions organized under Article 14I of this Chapter of any other State act or of the Federal Credit Union Act.

(8) Common trust investments which deal in investments authorized by Articles 14A to 14L of this Chapter.

(9) Prepaid expenses.

(10) Accrued interest on nonrisk investments.

(11) Furniture and equipment.

(12) Land and buildings.

(13) Loans secured by shares.

(14) Deposits in mutual savings guaranty associations which qualify under Article 7A of Chapter 54 of the General Statutes .

(15) Investments in the College Foundation.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 74C-23 — NC Code / Chapter 74C / Section 74C-23
§ 74C-23. Acquisition or change of ownership or control of licensed firm, association, or corporation
Status: in_force

In the event a company, firm, or corporation licensed under this Chapter transfers ownership, control, or a majority of assets to another person, firm, association, or corporation, the person, firm, association, or corporation acquiring control or ownership shall have the following responsibilities:

(1) Notify the Director of the acquisition or change of ownership or control by registered mail within five business days from the date of the transaction.

(2) Describe the transaction that has occurred by providing the following information:

a. The name and address of the registered agent of the party acquiring control or ownership or otherwise succeeding the licensee.

b. The name and address of the acquiring party, including each individual owner of any interest in the party or, if the party is a corporation, the name and address of each officer of the corporation and member of the board of directors.

c. Any change in location of any branch office.

d. Any change in insurance or bonding limits.

(3) Return to the Director all licenses held by the licensee within five business days from the date of the transaction if the acquiring party does not continue to operate the business under its previous name and license.

(4) Provide to the Director no later than 10 calendar days prior to the effective date of the transaction a list of all registrants or licensees affected by the transaction.

(5) Provide to the Director within 60 calendar days from the effective date of the transaction written confirmation of completion of any changes necessary for the acquiring party to comply with the requirements of this Chapter or any applicable rules adopted by the Board on a form approved by the Director.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 66-396 — NC Code / Chapter 66 / Section 66-396
§ 66-396. Penalties
Status: in_force

(a) Every person, firm, or corporation, their guests or employees, who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this Part, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. If the violation is by an owner or major stockholder or managing partner of the pawnshop and the violation is knowingly committed by the owner, major stockholder, or managing partner of the pawnshop, then the license of the pawnshop may be suspended at the discretion of the court.

(b) The provision of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to violations of G.S. 66-395(a)(6) or G.S. 66-395(b) which shall be prosecuted under the North Carolina criminal statutes.

(c) Any contract of pawn the making or collecting of which violates any provision of this Part, except as a result of accidental or bona fide error of computation, shall be void, and the licensee shall have no right to collect, receive or retain any interest or fee whatsoever with respect to such pawn.