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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-25 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-25
§ 130A-25. Misdemeanor
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided, a person who violates a provision of this Chapter or the rules adopted by the Commission or a local board of health shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) A person convicted under this section for violation of G.S. 130A-144(f) or G.S. 130A-145 shall not be sentenced under Article 81B of Chapter 15A of the General Statutes but shall instead be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of no more than two years and shall serve any prison sentence in McCain Hospital, Division of Prisons, McCain, North Carolina; the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women, Division of Prisons, Raleigh, North Carolina; or any other confinement facility designated for this purpose by the Secretary of the Department of Adult Correction after consultation with the State Health Director. The Secretary of the Department of Adult Correction shall consult with the State Health Director concerning the medical management of these persons.

(c) Notwithstanding G.S. 148-4.1 , G.S. 148-13 , or any other contrary provision of law, a person imprisoned for violation of G.S. 130A-144(f) or G.S. 130A-145 shall not be released prior to the completion of the person's term of imprisonment unless and until a determination has been made by the District Court that release of the person would not create a danger to the public health. This determination shall be made only after the medical consultant of the confinement facility and the State Health Director, in consultation with the local health director of the person's county of residence, have made recommendations to the Court.

(d) A violation of Part 7 of Article 9 of this Chapter or G.S. 130A-309.10(m) shall be punishable as a Class 3 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-440-2 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-440-2
§ 1-440.2. Actions in which attachment may be had
Status: in_force

Attachment may be had in any action the purpose of which, in whole or in part, or in the alternative, is to secure a judgment for money, or in any action for alimony or for maintenance and support, or an action for the support of a minor child, but not in any other action.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-85-20 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-85-20
§ 90-85.20. Licensure without examination
Status: reserved

(a) The Board may issue a license to practice pharmacy, without examination, to any person who is licensed as a pharmacist in another jurisdiction if the applicant shall present satisfactory evidence of possessing the same qualifications as are required of licensees in this State, that he was licensed by examination in such other jurisdiction, and that the standard of competence required by such other jurisdiction is substantially equivalent to that of this State at that time. The Board must be satisfied that a candidate for licensure has a satisfactory understanding of the laws governing the practice of pharmacy and distribution of drugs in this State.

(b) Repealed by Laws 1991, c. 125, § 2 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 96-6-2 — NC Code / Chapter 96 / Section 96-6-2
§ 96-6.2. Unemployment Insurance Reserve Fund
Status: reserved

(a) Establishment and Use.--The Unemployment Insurance Reserve Fund is established as an enterprise fund. The Fund consists of the revenues derived from the surtax imposed under G.S. 96-9.7 . Monies in the Fund may be used only for the following purposes:

(1) Interest payments required on advances under Title XII of the Social Security Act.

(2) Principal payments on advances under Title XII of the Social Security Act.

(3) Transfers to the Unemployment Insurance Fund for payment of benefits.

(4) Administrative costs for the collection of the surtax.

(5) Refunds of the surtax.

(b) Fund Capped.--The balance in the Unemployment Insurance Reserve Fund on January 1 of any year may not exceed the greater of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) or the amount of interest paid the previous September on advances under Title XII of the Social Security Act. Any amount in the fund that exceeds the cap must be transferred to the Unemployment Insurance Fund.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-309-19 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-309-19
§ 130A-309.19. Coordination with other State agencies
Status: in_force

The Department of Transportation shall study the feasibility of using recycled oil products in road construction activities and shall report to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives annually, beginning 1 January 1991, on the results of its study.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 66-181 — NC Code / Chapter 66 / Section 66-181
§ 66-181. Usage of trade
Status: in_force

The terms “ utility ” and “ industrial ,” when used to refer to equipment, implements, machinery, attachments, or repair parts, shall have the meaning commonly used and understood among dealers and suppliers of farm equipment as a usage of trade in accordance with G.S. 25-1-303(c) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 120-6-1 — NC Code / Chapter 120 / Section 120-6-1
§ 120-6.1. Request that reconvened session not be held
Status: in_force

(a) As provided by Section 22(7) of Article II of the Constitution of North Carolina , if within 30 days after adjournment, a bill is returned by the Governor with objections and veto message to that house in which it shall have originated, the Governor shall reconvene that session as provided by Section 5(11) of Article III of the Constitution for reconsideration of the bill, unless the Governor prior to reconvening the session receives written requests dated no earlier than 30 days after such adjournment, signed by a majority of the members of each house that a reconvened session to reconsider vetoed legislation is unnecessary. If sufficient requests are received such that the session will not be reconvened, the Governor shall immediately issue a proclamation to that effect and so notify the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the principal clerks and presiding officers of both houses.

(b) The form for the requests shall be:

“To the Governor:

A reconvened session to reconsider vetoed legislation is unnecessary.

This __________ day of __________, ___,

__________, Member of the [Senate] [House of Representatives]”

Petitions as they are received are public records and shall be maintained by the Office of the Governor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-136 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-136
§ 130A-136. School principals and child care operators to report
Status: in_force

A principal of a school and an operator of a child care facility, as defined in G.S. 110-86(3) , who has reason to suspect that a person within the school or child care facility has a communicable disease or communicable condition declared by the Commission to be reported, shall report information required by the Commission to the local health director of the county or district in which the school or facility is located.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-64-26 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-64-26
§ 115C-64.26. Powers and duties of B-3 Interagency Council
Status: in_force

The B-3 Interagency Council shall have the following powers and duties:

(1) Facilitating the development and implementation of an interagency plan for a coordinated system of early care, education, and child development services with a focus on program outcomes in satisfying the developmental and educational needs of all children from birth to eight years of age that includes at least the following:

a. Any recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Superintendent of Public Instruction on necessary organizational changes needed within the Departments of Health and Human Services and Public Instruction to be more responsive to and supportive of the birth to grade three continuum of early learning and development in an effort to optimize learning gains realized in the prekindergarten years.

b. An early childhood information system that facilitates and encourages the sharing of data between and among early childhood service providers and State agencies.

c. An early childhood accountability plan that includes identification of appropriate population indicators and program and system performance measures of early success of children such as the NC Pathways to Grade-Level Reading.

(2) Implementing a statewide longitudinal evaluation of the educational progress of children from prekindergarten programs through grade 12.

(3) Collaborating with the Department of Public Instruction, the Department of Health and Human Services, the North Carolina Partnership for Children, and other relevant early childhood stakeholders, including members of the North Carolina Early Childhood Advisory Council, to achieve the goal of a coordinated system of early care, education, and child development services for children from birth to eight years of age.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 62-95 — NC Code / Chapter 62 / Section 62-95
§ 62-95. Relief pending review on appeal
Status: in_force

Pending judicial review, the Commission is authorized, where it finds that justice so requires, to postpone the effective date of any action taken by it. Upon such conditions as may be required and to the extent necessary to prevent irreparable injury, a judge of the appellate court with jurisdiction over the case on appeal is authorized to issue all necessary and appropriate process to postpone the effective date of any action by the Commission or take such action as may be necessary to preserve status or rights of any of the parties pending conclusion of the proceedings on appeal. The court may require the applicant for such stay to post adequate bond as required by the court.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-135-142 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-135-142
§ 143B-135.142. Declaration of policy
Status: in_force

The General Assembly finds that certain rivers of North Carolina possess outstanding natural, scenic, educational, geological, recreational, historic, fish and wildlife, scientific and cultural values of great present and future benefit to the people. The General Assembly further finds as policy the necessity for a rational balance between the conduct of man and the preservation of the natural beauty along the many rivers of the State. This policy includes retaining the natural and scenic conditions in some of the State's valuable rivers by maintaining them in a free-flowing state and to protect their water quality and adjacent lands by retaining these natural and scenic conditions. It is further declared that the preservation of certain rivers or segments of rivers in their natural and scenic condition constitutes a beneficial public purpose.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-604 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-604
§ 90-604. Use of body information tags
Status: in_force

(a) In order to provide the identifying information necessary to facilitate organ and tissue transplants, a body information tag shall be attached to or transmitted with the body of an accident-trauma victim by the following persons:

(1) A law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, or other official emergency rescuer who believes the seriously injured individual to be near death; and

(2) Hospital personnel, after the individual has been pronounced dead.

(b) The body information tag shall include information identifying the accident-trauma victim, identifying whether the individual is an organ donor, and providing any information on the next of kin. The Division of Motor Vehicles shall be responsible for producing and distributing body information tags to all State and local law enforcement departments. In addition, the tags shall be distributed by the Division of Motor Vehicles to all State and local agencies employing firefighters, paramedics, and other emergency and rescue personnel.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 131E-100 — NC Code / Chapter 131E / Section 131E-100
§ 131E-100. Title; purpose
Status: in_force

(a) This Part shall be known as the “Nursing Home Licensure Act.”

(b) The purpose of the Nursing Home Licensure Act is to establish authority and duty for the Department to inspect and license private nursing homes.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-8-803 — NC Code / Chapter 36C / Section 36C-8-803
§ 36C-8-803. Impartiality
Status: in_force

If a trust has two or more beneficiaries, the trustee shall act impartially in investing, managing, and distributing the trust property, giving due regard to the beneficiaries' respective interests.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-448 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-448
§ 143-448. Licensing of pesticide dealers; fees
Status: reserved

(a) No person shall act in the capacity of a pesticide dealer, or shall engage or offer to engage in the business of, advertise as, or assume to act as a pesticide dealer unless he is licensed annually as provided in this Part. A separate license and fee shall be obtained for each location or outlet from which restricted use pesticides are distributed, sold, held for sale, or offered for sale.

(b) Applications for a pesticide dealer license shall be in the form and shall contain the information prescribed by the Board. Each application shall be accompanied by a non-refundable fee of seventy-five dollars ($75.00). All licenses issued under this Part shall expire on December 31 of the year for which they are issued.

(c) The license for a pesticide dealer may be renewed annually upon application to the Board, accompanied by a fee of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for each license, on or before the first day of January of the calendar year for which the license is issued.

(d) Repealed by Laws 1981, c. 592, § 6.

(e) Every licensed pesticide dealer who changes his address or place of business shall immediately notify the Board.

(f) The Board shall issue to each applicant that satisfies the requirements of this Part a license which entitles the applicant to conduct the business described in the application for the calendar year for which the license is issued, unless the license is sooner revoked or suspended.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-39-10 — NC Code / Chapter 7A / Section 7A-39-10
§ 7A-39.10. Article applicable to previously retired justices
Status: in_force

All provisions of this Article shall apply to every justice of the Supreme Court who has heretofore retired and is receiving compensation as an emergency justice.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-118 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-118
§ 143-118. Secretary of Health and Human Services to fix cost and charges
Status: reserved

(a) The Secretary shall determine and fix the actual cost of care to be paid by and for each person admitted to an institution. The Secretary is given full and final authority to fix a general rate of charge based on said actual cost of providing care, to be paid by persons admitted able to pay the rate or charge, or, in cases where indigent persons admitted are later found to be nonindigent, then cost for their care shall be paid in one or more payments based on the rate of charge in effect for the period or periods of time during which the persons admitted were receiving care in the institutions.

(b), (c) Repealed by Laws 1985, c. 508, § 5, eff. Oct. 1, 1985.

(d) The Secretary shall ascertain which of the persons admitted or persons legally responsible for them are financially able to pay the cost fixed.

(e) The Secretary is empowered to enter into contracts of compromise of accounts owing to the institution for past, present or future care at the institutions, including but not limited to the authority to enter into a contract to charge nothing, which contract shall be binding on the respective institution under the terms and for the period specified in the contract. The rates set by the compromise shall be determined in the discretion of the Secretary by the ability to pay of the person admitted or the person legally responsible for his support. This subsection shall not be construed as mandatory and if a contract is not entered into or terminates or if the obligor defaults in the payment of a compromise account or any installment, then the full actual cost of care shall be assessed against the person admitted.

(f) For any client admitted under Part 2 of Article 5 of G.S. 122C to a State facility for the mentally ill designated for research purposes in accordance with G.S. 122C-210.2 , the Secretary may reduce the rates set by compromise in G.S. 143-118(e) by not more than one-half the amount of that rate.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-61-7 — NC Code / Chapter 97 / Section 97-61-7
§ 97-61.7. Waiver of right to compensation as alternative to forced change of occupation
Status: in_force

An employee who has been compensated under the terms of G.S. 97-61.5(b) as an alternative to forced change of occupation, may, subject to the approval of the Industrial Commission, waive in writing his right to further compensation for any aggravation of his condition that may result from his continuing in an occupation exposing him to the hazards of asbestosis or silicosis, in which case payment of all compensation awarded previous to the date of the waiver as approved by the Industrial Commission shall bar any further claims by the employee, or anyone claiming through him, provided, that in the event of total disablement or death as a result of asbestosis or silicosis with which the employee was so affected, compensation shall nevertheless be payable, but in no case, whether for disability or death or both, for a longer period than 100 weeks in addition to the 104 weeks already paid. Such written waiver must be filed with the Industrial Commission, and the Commission shall keep a record of each waiver, which record shall be open to the inspection of any interested person.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 145-5 — NC Code / Chapter 145 / Section 145-5
§ 145-5. State mammal
Status: in_force

The gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is hereby adopted as the official State mammal of the State of North Carolina.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-10-5 — NC Code / Chapter 148 / Section 148-10-5
§ 148-10.5. Facilitation of reentry
Status: in_force

In order to facilitate successful reentry and improve judicial efficiency, the Division of Prisons of the Department of Adult Correction shall work with law enforcement, the district attorneys' offices, and the courts to develop a process by which, both at intake and before release, effort is made, for each inmate in custody, to identify all outstanding warrants on the inmate. The plan should seek to resolve inmates' outstanding warrants while in custody, whenever feasible. In the course of resolving an outstanding warrant while in custody, an inmate shall be notified of the outstanding warrant and his or her right to counsel if such a right exists.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-174-15 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-174-15
§ 115C-174.15. Report student performance on local standardized tests
Status: in_force

(a) A local board of education shall provide a student's results on standardized tests required by the local board, as reported pursuant to G.S. 115C-174.12(d) , to the following persons and according to the following time lines:

(1) To the student's teachers no later than one week after the standardized test is administered.

(2) To the student's parents no later than 30 days after the standardized test is administered.

(b) If the superintendent of the local school administrative unit determines in writing that extenuating circumstances exist and reports those circumstances to the local board of education, the local board may extend the above time lines in the discretion of the local board of education.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1369-4 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-1369-4
§ 15A-1369.4. Conditions of medical release
Status: reserved

(a) The Commission shall set reasonable conditions upon an inmate's medical release that shall apply through the date upon which the inmate's sentence would have expired. These conditions shall include all of the following:

(1) That the released inmate's care be consistent with the care specified in the medical release plan as approved by the Commission.

(2) That the released inmate shall cooperate with and comply with the prescribed medical release plan and with reasonable requirements of medical providers to whom the released inmate is to be referred to continued treatment.

(3) That the released inmate shall be subject to supervision by the Division of Community Supervision and Reentry of the Department of Adult Correction and shall permit officers from the Division to visit the inmate at reasonable times at the inmate's home or elsewhere.

(4) That the released inmate shall comply with any conditions of release set by the Commission.

(5) That the Commission shall receive periodic assessments from the inmate's treating physician.

(b) The Commission shall promptly order an inmate returned to the custody of the Division to await a revocation hearing if the Commission receives credible information that an inmate has failed to comply with any reasonable condition set upon the inmate's release. If the Commission subsequently revokes an inmate's medical release for failure to comply with conditions of release, the inmate shall resume serving the balance of the sentence with credit given only for the duration of the inmate's medical release served in compliance with all reasonable conditions set forth pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Revocation of an inmate's medical release for violating a condition of release shall not preclude an inmate's eligibility for any other form of parole or release provided by law but may be used as a factor in determining eligibility for that parole or release.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 140A-1 — NC Code / Chapter 140A / Section 140A-1
§ 140A-1. Annual awards established; form and design
Status: in_force

The State of North Carolina hereby establishes annual awards, not to exceed six in number, each bearing the name of the recipient, with an appropriate inscription reciting the reason for the award, which form and design shall be approved by the Governor and Council of State.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 153A-262 — NC Code / Chapter 153A / Section 153A-262
§ 153A-262. Library materials defined
Status: in_force

For purposes of this Article, the phrase “library materials” includes, without limitation, books, plates, pictures, engravings, maps, magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, manuscripts, films, transparencies, microforms, recordings, or other specimens, works of literature, or objects of art, historical significance, or curiosity.