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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47-82 — NC Code / Chapter 47 / Section 47-82
§ 47-82. Foreign probates omitting seals
Status: in_force

In all cases where the acknowledgment, privy examination or other proof of the execution of any instrument authorized or required to be registered has been taken by or before any ambassador, minister, consul, vice-consul, vice-consul general or commercial agent of the United States in any country beyond the limits of the United States, and such instrument has heretofore been recorded in any county in this State, but the official before whom it was taken has omitted to attach his seal of office, or it does not appear of record that such seal was attached to the instrument, or such official has certified the same as under his “official seal” or seal of his office, or words of similar import, and no such seal appears of record, then all such acknowledgments, privy examinations or other proof of such instruments, and the registration thereof, are hereby made in all respects valid, and such instruments, after the ratification hereof, shall be competent to be read in evidence.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 135-48-50 — NC Code / Chapter 135 / Section 135-48-50
§ 135-48.50. Coverage mandates
Status: reserved

The Plan shall provide coverage subject to the following coverage mandates:

(1) Abortion coverage.--The Plan shall not provide coverage for abortions for which State funds could not be used under G.S. 143C-6-5.5 . The Plan shall, however, provide coverage for subsequent complications or related charges arising from an abortion not covered under this subdivision.

(2) Immunizations.--The Plan shall pay one hundred percent (100%) of allowable medical charges for immunizations for the prevention of contagious diseases as generally accepted medical practices would dictate when directed by a credentialed provider as determined by the claims processor.

(3) Insulin.--Prescription benefits shall be provided for insulin even though a prescription is not required.

(4) Mental health parity.--Benefits for the treatment of mental illness and chemical dependency are covered by the Plan and shall be subject to the same deductibles, durational limits, and coinsurance factors as are benefits for physical illness generally. Nothing in this subdivision, however, shall prohibit the Plan from requiring the most cost-effective treatment setting to be utilized by a person undergoing necessary care and treatment for chemical dependency.

(5) Reserved.

(6) Permissive coverage extension.--If a covered service becomes excluded from coverage under the Plan, the Executive Administrator and Claims Processor may, in the event of exceptional situations creating undue hardships or adverse medical conditions, allow persons enrolled in the Plan to remain covered by the Plan's previous coverage for up to three months after the effective date of the change in coverage, provided the persons so enrolled had been undergoing a continuous plan of specific treatment initiated within three months prior to the effective date of the change in coverage.

(7) Reconstructive surgery.--Charges for cosmetic surgery or treatment required for correction of damage caused by accidental injury sustained by the covered individual while coverage under this plan is in force on his or her account or to correct congenital deformities or anomalies shall not be excluded if they otherwise qualify as covered medical expenses. Reconstructive breast surgery following mastectomy, as those terms are defined in G.S. 58-51-62 , shall be covered.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-405 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-405
§ 106-405. Prohibited acts; penalties
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in G.S. 106-404 , any person who knowingly and willfully violates any provision of this Part is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

(b) It is prohibited that any person knowingly and willfully:

(1) Hide or conceal any animals that are subject to a quarantine under this Part.

(2) Fail to report the occurrence of an animal disease for which a quarantine under this Part is in effect.

(c) Any person who has committed an act that is prohibited under subsection (b) of this section shall be subject to an administrative penalty not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per violation. Each act in violation of subsection (b) of this section is a separate violation.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-403 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-403
§ 1-403. Orders signed by judge
Status: in_force

Every order or judgment in a special proceeding required to be made by a judge of the superior court, in or out of session, must be authenticated by his signature.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-195 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-195
§ 106-195. Rules and regulations; how prescribed
Status: in_force

The Board of Agriculture is authorized to make and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Article. Such rules and regulations shall be made to conform as nearly as practicable to the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, prescribed under any act of Congress of the United States relating to the marketing of farm products.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-2 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-2
§ 143B-2. Interim applicability of the Executive Organization Act of 1973
Status: reserved

The Executive Organization Act of 1973 shall be applicable only to the following named departments:

(1) Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

(2) Department of Health and Human Services.

(3) Department of Revenue.

(4) Department of Public Safety.

(5) Repealed by S.L. 2012-83, § 47, eff. June 26, 2012 .

(6) Department of Environmental Quality.

(7) Department of Transportation.

(8) Department of Administration.

(9) Department of Commerce.

(10) Repealed by S.L. 2012-83, § 47, eff. June 26, 2012 .

(11) Department of Information Technology.

(12) Department of Adult Correction.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-544-6 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-544-6
§ 15A-544.6. Final judgment of forfeiture
Status: in_force

A forfeiture entered under G.S. 15A-544.3 becomes a final judgment of forfeiture without further action by the court and may be enforced under G.S. 15A-544.7 , on the one hundred fiftieth day after notice is given under G.S. 15A-544.4 , if:

(1) No order setting aside the forfeiture under G.S. 15A-544.5 is entered on or before that date; and

(2) No motion to set aside the forfeiture is pending on that date.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15-150 — NC Code / Chapter 15 / Section 15-150
§ 15-150. Description in bill for embezzlement
Status: in_force

In indictments for embezzlement, except when the offense relates to a chattel, it is sufficient to allege the embezzlement to be of money, without specifying any particular coin or valuable security; and such allegation, so far as regards the description of the property, shall be sustained if the offender shall be proved to have embezzled any amount, although the particular species of coin or valuable security of which such amount was composed shall not be proved.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-383 — NC Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-383
§ 20-383. Inspectors and officers given enforcement authority
Status: in_force

Only designated inspectors, officers, and personnel of the Department of Public Safety shall have the authority to enforce the provisions of this Article and provisions of Chapter 62 applicable to motor transportation, and they are empowered to make complaint for the issue of appropriate warrants, information, presentments or other lawful process for the enforcement and prosecution of violations of the transportation laws against all offenders, whether they be regulated motor carriers or not, and to appear in court or before the North Carolina Utilities Commission and offer evidence at the trial pursuant to such processes.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-2-317 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-2-317
§ 25-2-317. Cumulation and conflict of warranties express or implied
Status: in_force

Warranties whether express or implied shall be construed as consistent with each other and as cumulative, but if such construction is unreasonable the intention of the parties shall determine which warranty is dominant. In ascertaining that intention the following rules apply:

(a) Exact or technical specifications displace an inconsistent sample or model or general langauge 1 of description.

(b) A sample from an existing bulk displaces inconsistent general language of description.

(c) Express warranties displace inconsistent implied warranties other than an implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 17-8 — NC Code / Chapter 17 / Section 17-8
§ 17-8. Issuance of writ without application
Status: in_force

When the appellate division or superior court division, or any judge of either division, has evidence from any judicial proceeding before such court or judge that any person within this State is illegally imprisoned or restrained of his liberty, it is the duty of said court or judge to issue a writ of habeas corpus for his relief, although no application be made for such writ.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-309-08 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-309-08
§ 130A-309.08. Determination of cost for solid waste management; local solid waste management fees
Status: reserved

(a) Each county and each municipality shall annually determine the full cost for solid waste management within the service area of the county or municipality for the preceding year. The Commission shall establish by rule the method for units of local government to use in calculating full cost.

(b) Each municipality shall establish a system to inform, no less than once a year, residential and nonresidential users of solid waste management services within the municipality's service area of the user's share, on an average or individual basis, of the full cost for solid waste management as determined pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Counties shall provide the information required of municipalities only to residential and nonresidential users of solid waste management services within the county's service area that are not served by a municipality. Municipalities shall include costs charged to them or to persons contracting with them for disposal of solid waste in the full cost information provided to residential and nonresidential users of solid waste management services. Counties and municipalities are encouraged to operate their solid waste management systems through use of an enterprise fund.

(c) For purposes of this section, “service area” means the area in which the county or municipality provides, directly or by contract, solid waste management services. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to require a person operating under a franchise contract or other agreement to collect or dispose of solid waste within the service area of a county or municipality to make the calculations or to establish a system to provide the information required under this section, unless such person agrees to do so as part of such franchise contract or other agreement.

(d) A county may charge fees for the collection, processing, or disposal of solid waste as provided in Article 15 of Chapter 153A of the General Statutes. A city may charge fees for the collection, processing, or disposal of solid waste as provided in Article 16 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.

(e), (f) Repealed by Laws 1995, c. 594, § 12, eff. Oct. 1, 1996 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-44-24 — NC Code / Chapter 136 / Section 136-44-24
§ 136-44.24. Ridesharing arrangements exempt from municipal licenses and taxes
Status: in_force

No county, city, town or other municipal corporation may require a business license for a ridesharing arrangement, nor may they require any additional tax, fee, or registration on a vehicle used in a ridesharing arrangement.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 44A-7 — NC Code / Chapter 44A / Section 44A-7
§ 44A-7. Definitions
Status: in_force

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply in this Article:

(1) Contractor.--A person who contracts with an owner to improve real property.

(2) First tier subcontractor.--A person who contracts with a contractor to improve real property.

(3) Improve.--To build, effect, alter, repair, or demolish any improvement upon, connected with, or on or beneath the surface of any real property, or to excavate, clear, grade, fill or landscape any real property, or to construct driveways and private roadways, or to furnish materials, including trees and shrubbery, for any of such purposes, or to perform any labor upon such improvements, and shall also mean and include any design or other professional or skilled services furnished by architects, engineers, land surveyors and landscape architects registered under Chapter 83A, 89A or 89C of the General Statutes, and rental of equipment directly utilized on the real property in making the improvement.

(4) Improvement.--All or any part of any building, structure, erection, alteration, demolition, excavation, clearing, grading, filling, or landscaping, including trees and shrubbery, driveways, and private roadways, on real property.

(4a) Inspection department.--Any city or county building inspection department authorized by Chapter 160A or Chapter 153A of the General Statutes.

(4b) Lien agent.--A title insurance company or title insurance agency designated by an owner pursuant to G.S. 44A-11.1 .

(5) Obligor.--An owner, contractor, or subcontractor in any tier who owes money to another as a result of the other's partial or total performance of a contract to improve real property.

(6) Owner.--A person who has an interest in the real property improved and for whom an improvement is made and who ordered the improvement to be made. “ Owner ” includes successors in interest of the owner and agents of the owner acting within their authority.

(6a) Potential lien claimant.--Any person entitled to claim a lien for improvements to real property under this Article who is subject to G.S. 44A-11.1 .

(7) Real property.--The real estate that is improved, including lands, leaseholds, tenements and hereditaments, and improvements placed thereon.

(8) Second tier subcontractor.--A person who contracts with a first tier subcontractor to improve real property.

(9) Third tier subcontractor.--A person who contracts with a second tier subcontractor to improve real property.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-270-165 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-270-165
§ 90-270.165. Conditions of telepsychology practice in a Receiving State
Status: in_force

A psychologist may practice in a Receiving State under the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology only in the performance of the scope of practice for psychology as assigned by an appropriate State Psychology Regulatory Authority, as defined in the Rules of the Commission, and under the following circumstances:

(1) The psychologist initiates a client/patient contact in a Home State via telecommunications technologies with a client/patient in a Receiving State.

(2) Other conditions regarding telepsychology as determined by Rules promulgated by the Commission.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-478 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-478
§ 160A-478. Powers granted are supplementary
Status: in_force

The powers granted to cities and counties by this Article are supplementary to any powers heretofore or hereafter granted by any other general law, local act, or city charter for the same or similar purposes.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-280-1 — NC Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-280-1
§ 20-280.1. Definitions
Status: in_force

The following definitions apply in this Article:

(1) Airport operator .--Any person with police powers that owns or operates an airport.

(2) Brokering transportation network company .--A transportation network company, as defined by this section, that exclusively dispatches TNC drivers that operate either of the following:

a. For-hire passenger vehicles regulated under G.S. 160A-304 .

b. For-hire passenger vehicles regulated under G.S. 62-260(f) and subject to the requirements for security for protection of the public and safety of operation established for regulated motor common carriers.

(3) Prearranged transportation services .--Transportation services available by advance request excluding for-hire passenger vehicles soliciting passengers for immediate transportation. No minimum waiting period is required between the advance request and the provision of the transportation services.

(4) TNC driver .--An individual that uses a passenger vehicle in connection with a transportation network company's online-enabled application or platform to connect with passengers in exchange for payment of a fee to the transportation network company.

(5) TNC service .--Prearranged transportation service provided by a TNC driver in connection with a transportation network company. The TNC service begins when the TNC driver accepts a ride request on the transportation network company's online-enabled application or platform and ends at the later of the following:

a. The time that the driver completes the transaction on the online-enabled application or platform.

b. The time that all passengers exit the vehicle and complete unloading of the vehicle.

(6) Transportation network company (TNC) .--Any person that uses an online-enabled application or platform to connect passengers with TNC drivers who provide prearranged transportation services.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-397 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-397
§ 106-397. Violation made misdemeanor
Status: in_force

Any person or persons who shall violate any provision set forth in G.S. 106-388 to 106-398 , or any rule or regulation duly established pursuant to this Article by the State Board of Agriculture or any inspector who shall willfully fail to comply with any provisions of G.S. 106-388 to 106-398 , shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-209 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-209
§ 1-209. Judgments authorized to be entered by clerk; sale of property; continuance pending sale; writs of assistance and possession
Status: in_force

The clerks of the superior courts are authorized to enter the following judgments:

(1) All judgments of voluntary nonsuit.

(2) All consent judgments.

(3) In all actions upon notes, bills, bonds, stated accounts, balances struck, and other evidences of indebtedness within the jurisdiction of the superior court.

(4) All judgments by default final and default and inquiry as are authorized by Rule 55 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, 1 and in this section provided.

(5) In all cases where the clerks of the superior court enter judgment by default final upon any debt secured by mortgage, deed of trust, conditional sale contract or other conveyance of any kind, either real or personal property, or by a pledge of property, the said clerks of the superior court are authorized and empowered to order a foreclosure of such mortgage, deed of trust, conditional sale contract, or other conveyance, and order a sale of the property so conveyed or pledged upon such terms as appear to be just; and the said clerks of the superior court shall have all the power and authority now exercised by the judges of the superior court to appoint commissioners to make such sales, to receive the reports thereof, and to confirm the report of sale or to order a resale, and to that end they are authorized to continue such causes from time to time as may be required to complete the sale, and in the final judgment in said causes they shall order the execution and delivery of all necessary deeds and make all necessary orders disbursing the funds arising from the sale, and may issue writs of assistance and possession upon ten days' notice to parties in possession. The commissioners appointed to make foreclosure sales, as herein authorized, may proceed to advertise such sales immediately after the date of entering judgment and order of foreclosure, unless otherwise provided in said judgment and order.

(6) All judgments on awards, or on Certificates of Accrued Arrearages, of the Industrial Commission in workers' compensation cases, as defined and provided for in G.S. 97-87 .

In any tax foreclosure action pending on March 15, 1939 or thereafter brought under the provisions of G.S. 105-414 in which there is filed no answer which seeks to prevent entry of judgment of sale, the clerk of the superior court may render judgment of sale and make all necessary subsequent orders and judgments to the same extent as permitted by this section in actions brought to foreclose a mortgage. All such judgments and orders heretofore rendered or made by a clerk of the superior court in such tax foreclosure actions are hereby, as to the authority of the said clerk, ratified and confirmed.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-89A-155 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-89A-155
§ 58-89A-155. Grounds for disciplinary action
Status: reserved

(a) The Commissioner may take disciplinary action against a licensee or any person subject to licensure requirements under this Article on any of the following grounds:

(1) Being convicted or having an officer or controlling person of the licensee convicted of:

a. Bribery, fraud, or intentional or material misrepresentation in obtaining or attempting to obtain a license;

b. A crime that relates to the operation of a professional employer organization or the ability of the licensee or any officer or controlling person of the licensee to operate a professional employer organization;

c. A crime that relates to the classification, misclassification, or underreporting of employees required by State law;

d. A crime that relates to the establishment or maintenance of a self-insurance program, whether health insurance, workers' compensation insurance, or other insurance;

e. A crime that relates to fraud, deceit, or misconduct in the operation of a professional employer service; or

f. A crime that involves dishonesty or breach of trust.

(2) Engaging in professional employer services or offering to engage in the provision of professional employer services without a license.

(3) Failure to provide notice in writing of the discontinuance and replacement, if any, of any insurance coverage, to the Commissioner and client company within 10 business days of the discontinuance of any insurance coverage pursuant to G.S. 58-89A-115 .

(4) Repealed by S.L. 2013-413, § 11.1(h), eff. Oct. 1, 2013 .

(5) Failure to satisfy any of the requirements for licensure in this Article.

(b) For purposes of this section, a conviction includes an adjudication of guilt, a plea of guilty, and a plea of nolo contendere.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-319-1 — NC Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-319-1
§ 20-319.1. Company to forward certification within seven days after receipt of request
Status: in_force

Upon the receipt by an insurance company at its home office of a registered letter from an insured requesting that it certify to the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles whether or not a previously issued policy of automobile liability insurance was in full force and effect on a designated day, it shall be the duty of such insurance company to forward such certification within seven days.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-446 — NC Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14-446
§ 14-446. Disposition of defendant acquitted because of alcoholism
Status: in_force

If a defendant is found not guilty of being intoxicated and disruptive in a public place because he suffers from alcoholism, the court in which he was tried may retain jurisdiction over him for up to 15 days to determine whether he is a substance abuser and dangerous to himself or others as provided in G.S. 122C-281 . The trial judge may make that determination at the time the defendant is found not guilty or he may require the defendant to return to court for the determination at some later time within the 15-day period.