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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-243-1 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-243-1
§ 105-243.1. Collection of tax debts
Status: in_force

(a) Definitions.--The following definitions apply in this section:

(1) Overdue tax debt.--Any part of a tax debt that remains unpaid 60 days or more after it becomes collectible under G.S. 105-241.22 . The term does not include a tax debt for which the taxpayer entered into an installment agreement for the tax debt under G.S. 105-237 within 60 days after the tax debt became collectible, if the taxpayer has not failed to make any payments due under the installment agreement.

(2) Tax debt.--The total amount of tax, penalty, and interest collectible under G.S. 105-241.22 .

(b) Outsourcing.--The Secretary may contract for the collection of tax debts owed by nonresidents and foreign entities. At least 30 days before the Department submits a tax debt to a contractor for collection, the Department must notify the taxpayer by mail that the debt may be submitted for collection if payment is not received within 30 days after the notice was mailed.

(b1) [Outsourcing Limitation.--] In determining the liability of any person for a tax, the Secretary may not employ an agent who is compensated in whole or in part by the State for services rendered on a contingent basis or any other basis related to the amount of tax, interest, or penalty assessed against or collected from the person.

(c) Secrecy.--A contract for the collection of tax debts is conditioned on compliance with G.S. 105-259 . If a contractor violates G.S. 105-259 , the contract is terminated, and the Secretary must notify the contractor of the termination. A contractor whose contract is terminated for violation of G.S. 105-259 is not eligible for an award of another contract under this section for a period of five years from the termination. These sanctions are in addition to the criminal penalties set out in G.S. 105-259 .

(d) Fee.--A collection assistance fee is imposed on an overdue tax debt. In order to impose a collection assistance fee on a tax debt, the Department must notify the taxpayer that the fee will be imposed in accordance with this section at least 60 days prior to its imposition. The fee notice may be included on the notice of collection. The fee is collectible as part of the debt. The Secretary may waive the fee pursuant to G.S. 105-237 to the same extent as if it were a penalty.

The amount of the collection assistance fee is twenty percent (20%) of the amount of the overdue tax debt. If a taxpayer pays only part of an overdue tax debt, the payment is credited proportionally to fee revenue and tax revenue.

(e) Use.--The fee is a receipt of the Department and may be expended only pursuant to appropriation by the General Assembly.

(f) Reports.--The report of Department activities required by G.S. 105-256 contains information on the Department's efforts to collect tax debts and its use of the proceeds of the collection assistance fee.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-58-267 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-58-267
§ 58-58-267. Fraud warning required
Status: in_force

(a) Viatical settlement contracts and purchase agreement forms and applications for viatical settlements, regardless of the form of transmission, shall contain the following statement or a substantially similar statement:

“Any person who knowingly presents false information in an application for insurance or viatical settlement contract or a viatical settlement purchase agreement is guilty of a felony and may be subject to fines and confinement in prison.”

(b) The lack of a statement as required in subsection (a) of this section does not constitute a defense in any prosecution for a fraudulent viatical settlement act.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-7-120 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-7-120
§ 58-7-120. Reduction of capital stock
Status: in_force

When the capital stock of a company organized under this Article is impaired, the company may, upon a vote of the majority of the stock represented at a meeting legally called for that purpose, reduce its capital stock and the number of shares thereof to an amount not less than the minimum sum required by law, but no part of its assets and property shall be distributed to its stockholders. Within 10 days after such meeting the company must submit to the Commissioner a certificate setting forth the proceedings thereof and the amount of the reduction and the assets and liabilities of the company, signed and sworn to by its president, secretary, and a majority of its directors. The Commissioner shall examine the facts in the case, and if they conform to law, and in his judgment the proposed reduction may be made without prejudice to the public, he shall endorse his approval upon the certificate. Upon filing the certificate so endorsed with the Secretary of State and paying a filing fee of five dollars ($5.00), the company may transact business upon the basis of the reduced capital as though it were original capital, and its charter shall be deemed to be amended to conform thereto, and the Commissioner shall issue his certificate to that effect. The company may, by a majority vote of its directors, after the reduction, require the return of the original certificates of stock held by each stockholder in exchange for new certificates it may issue in lieu thereof for such number of shares as each stockholder is entitled to in the proportion that the reduced capital bears to the original capital.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-345-1 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-345-1
§ 143-345.1. Rules and regulations
Status: in_force

The Governor, with the approval of the Council of State, shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations governing the use, care, protection, and maintenance of the public buildings and grounds (other than parking). Any person who violates a rule or regulation adopted by the Governor with the approval of the Council of State is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-241 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-241
§ 1-241. Clerk to pay money to party entitled
Status: in_force

The clerk, to whom money is paid as aforesaid, shall pay it to the party entitled to receive it, under the same rules and penalties as if the money had been paid into his office by virtue of an execution.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-296-7 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-296-7
§ 115C-296.7. North Carolina Teacher Corps
Status: in_force

(a) There is established the North Carolina Teacher Corps (NC Teacher Corps) to recruit and place recent graduates of colleges and universities and mid-career professionals as teachers in high needs public schools.

(b) The State Board of Education, in consultation with the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, shall develop and administer the NC Teacher Corps. In the development of the NC Teacher Corps, the State Board of Education shall consider examples of other successful teacher recruitment models used nationally and in other states.

(c) Applications shall be received annually for admission to the NC Teacher Corps. The State Board of Education shall establish application criteria, including, at a minimum, an award of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. The State Board of Education may establish a committee to annually evaluate and select candidates for admission to the NC Teacher Corps.

(d) The State Board of Education shall identify local school administrative units with unmet recruitment needs, especially for career and technical education teachers, and high needs schools and shall coordinate placement of NC Teacher Corps members in those schools.

(e) The State Board of Education, in coordination with the Board of Governors, shall develop an intensive summer training institute for NC Teacher Corps members to provide coursework and training on essential teaching frameworks, curricula, and lesson-planning skills, as well as identification and education of students with disabilities, positive management of student behavior, effective communication for defusing and deescalating disruptive and dangerous behavior, and safe and appropriate use of seclusion and restraint. The intensive summer training institute also shall address identification of difficulty with reading development and of reading deficiencies and the provision of reading instruction, intervention, and remediation strategies.

(f) The State Board of Education, in coordination with the Board of Governors, shall provide ongoing support to NC Teaching Corps members through coaching, mentoring, and continued professional development.

(g) NC Teaching Corps members shall be granted residency licenses pursuant to Article 17E of this Chapter.

(h) The State Board of Education is authorized to contract for the administration of the NC Teacher Corps.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 159-193 — NC Code / Chapter 159 / Section 159-193
§ 159-193. Definitions
Status: in_force

The following definitions apply in this Article:

(1) Governmental unit.--Any of the following:

a. A unit of local government as defined in G.S. 159-44 .

b. A municipality as defined in G.S. 159-81 .

c. A joint agency as defined in G.S. 159B-3 .

d. Any department, agency, board, commission, or authority of the State that is authorized by law to issue bonds.

e. The State Treasurer in connection with the issuance, incurrence, carrying, or securing of obligations for or on behalf of the State pursuant to an act of the General Assembly.

(2) Obligations.--Any of the following:

a. Bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued by a governmental unit.

b. Lease purchase or installment financing agreements entered into by a governmental unit.

(3) Swap agreement.--Any of the following:

a. An agreement, including terms and conditions incorporated by reference in the agreement, that is a rate swap agreement, basis swap, forward rate agreement, interest rate option, rate cap agreement, rate floor agreement, rate collar agreement, or other similar agreement, including any option to enter into or terminate any of the foregoing.

b. Any combination of the agreements described in sub-subdivision a. of this subdivision.

c. A master agreement for any of the agreements described in sub-subdivisions a. and b. of this subdivision, together with all supplements.

d. One or more transactions entered into pursuant to a master agreement.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 138A-27 — NC Code / Chapter 138A / Section 138A-27
§ 138A-27. Penalty for false information
Status: in_force

A filing person who provides false information on a statement of economic interest as required under this Article knowing that the information is false is guilty of a Class H felony and shall be subject to disciplinary action under G.S. 138A-45 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 80-22 — NC Code / Chapter 80 / Section 80-22
§ 80-22. Altering timber trademark crime
Status: in_force

If any person shall willfully change, alter, erase or destroy any registered timber mark or brand put or cut upon any logs, timber, lumber or boards, except by the consent of the owner thereof, with intent to steal the said logs or timber, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 147-28 — NC Code / Chapter 147 / Section 147-28
§ 147-28. To procure seals for departments and courts
Status: in_force

The Governor shall also procure a seal for each department of the State government to be used for attesting and authenticating grants, proclamations, commissions, and other public acts, in such manner as may be directed by law and the usage established in the public offices; also a seal for every court of record in the State, for the purpose of authenticating the papers and records of such court. All such seals shall be delivered to the proper officers, who shall give a receipt therefor and be accountable for their safekeeping.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47C-4-118 — NC Code / Chapter 47C / Section 47C-4-118
§ 47C-4-118. Labeling of promotional material
Status: reserved

If any improvement contemplated in a condominium is labeled “NEED NOT BE BUILT” on a plat or plan, or is to be located within a portion of the condominium with respect to which the declarant has reserved a development right, no promotional material may be displayed or delivered to prospective purchasers which describes or portrays that improvement unless the description or portrayal of the improvement in the promotional material is conspicuously labeled or identified as “NEED NOT BE BUILT”.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143A-34 — NC Code / Chapter 143A / Section 143A-34
§ 143A-34. Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System; transfer
Status: reserved

The Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, and the board of trustees, as contained in Article 1 of Chapter 135 of the General Statutes and the laws of this State, is hereby transferred by a Type II transfer to the Department of State Treasurer.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-27-1 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-27-1
§ 163-27.1. Emergency powers
Status: in_force

(a) The Executive Director, as chief State elections official, may exercise emergency powers to conduct an election in a district where the normal schedule for the election is disrupted by any of the following:

(1) A natural disaster.

(2) Extremely inclement weather.

(3) An armed conflict involving Armed Forces of the United States, or mobilization of those forces, including North Carolina National Guard and reserve components of the Armed Forces of the United States.

In exercising those emergency powers, the Executive Director shall avoid unnecessary conflict with the provisions of this Chapter. The Executive Director shall adopt rules describing the emergency powers and the situations in which the emergency powers will be exercised.

(b) Nothing in this Chapter shall grant authority to the State Board of Elections to alter, amend, correct, impose, or substitute any plan apportioning or redistricting State legislative or congressional districts other than a plan imposed by a court under G.S. 120-2.4 or a plan enacted by the General Assembly.

(c) Nothing in this Chapter shall grant authority to the State Board of Elections to alter, amend, correct, impose, or substitute any plan apportioning or redistricting districts for a unit of local government other than a plan imposed by a court, a plan enacted by the General Assembly, or a plan adopted by the appropriate unit of local government under statutory or local act authority.

(d) Under no circumstances shall the Executive Director or the State Board of Elections have the authority to do any of the following:

(1) Deliver absentee ballots to an eligible voter who did not submit a valid written request form for absentee ballots as provided in G.S. 163-230.1 and G.S. 163-230.2 .

(2) Order an election to be conducted using all mail-in absentee ballots.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-10-460 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-10-460
§ 58-10-460. Adoption and amendment of rules by Commissioner
Status: in_force

The Commissioner may adopt and, from time to time, amend such rules relating to captive insurance companies as are necessary to enable the Commissioner to carry out the provisions of this Part.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25A-26 — NC Code / Chapter 25A / Section 25A-26
§ 25A-26. Substitution of collateral
Status: in_force

Subject to the provisions of G.S. 25A-23 , if all involved parties agree, there may be a substitution of collateral under a security instrument in a consumer credit sale. For such substitution, the seller may impose a fee not to exceed ten percent (10%) of the unpaid balance of the debt or fifteen dollars ($15.00), whichever is less.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215-73M — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-215-73M
§ 143-215.73M. Coastal Storm Damage Mitigation Fund
Status: in_force

(a) Fund Established.--The Coastal Storm Damage Mitigation Fund is established as a special revenue fund. The Fund consists of General Fund appropriations, gifts, grants, devises, monies contributed by a non-State entity for a particular beach nourishment or damage mitigation project or group of projects, and any other revenues specifically allocated to the Fund by an act of the General Assembly.

(b) Uses of the Fund.--Revenue credited to the Fund may only be used for costs associated with beach nourishment, artificial dunes, and other projects to mitigate or remediate coastal storm damage to the ocean beaches and dune systems of the State.

(b1) Grants Authorized.--The Secretary is authorized to accept applications for grants for nonfederal costs of projects sponsored by units of local government for the purpose set forth in subsection (b) of this section.

(c) Conditions on Funding.--Any project funded by revenue from the Fund must be cost-shared with non-State dollars on a basis of at least one non-State dollar for every one dollar from the Fund.

(d) Return of Non-State Entity Funds.--Non-State entities that contribute to the Fund for a particular project or group of projects may make a written request to the Secretary that the contribution be returned if the contribution has not been spent or encumbered within two years of receipt of the contribution by the Fund. If the written request is made prior to the funds being spent or encumbered, the Secretary shall return the funds to the entity within 30 days after the later of (i) receiving the request or (ii) the expiration of the two-year period described by this subsection.

(e) Report.--The Department shall report annually no later than October 1 regarding projects funded under this section to the Fiscal Research Division and the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources. The report shall include project type, project location, brief project description, entity receiving the funding, and amount of funding provided.

(f) Rules.--The Department shall adopt rules to implement the grant program authorized under subsection (b1) of this section.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-511 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-511
§ 105-511. Applicability
Status: in_force

This Part applies only in counties other than Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Orange, or Wake.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 51-16-1 — NC Code / Chapter 51 / Section 51-16-1
§ 51-16.1. Form of license for Address Confidentiality Program participant
Status: in_force

If a person submits to the local register of deeds a current and valid Address Confidentiality Program authorization card issued pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 15C of the General Statutes, the local register of deeds shall use the substitute address designated by the Address Confidentiality Program when creating a new marriage license.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-30-295 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-30-295
§ 58-30-295. Attachment, garnishment and levy of execution
Status: in_force

During the pendency in this or any other state of a liquidation proceeding, whether called by that name or not, no action or proceeding in the nature of an attachment, garnishment, or levy of execution shall be commenced or maintained in this State against the delinquent insurer or its assets.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99E-31 — NC Code / Chapter 99E / Section 99E-31
§ 99E-31. Liability
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an agritourism professional is not liable for injury to or death of a participant resulting from the inherent risks of agritourism activities, so long as the warning contained in G.S. 99E-32 is posted as required and, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, no participant or participant's representative can maintain an action against or recover from an agritourism professional for injury, loss, damage, or death of the participant resulting exclusively from any of the inherent risks of agritourism activities. In any action for damages against an agritourism professional for agritourism activity, the agritourism professional must plead the affirmative defense of assumption of the risk of agritourism activity by the participant.

(b) Nothing in subsection (a) of this section prevents or limits the liability of an agritourism professional if the agritourism professional does any one or more of the following:

(1) Commits an act or omission that constitutes willful or wanton disregard for the safety of the participant, and that act or omission proximately causes injury, damage, or death to the participant.

(2) Has actual knowledge or reasonably should have known of an existing dangerous condition on the land, facilities, or equipment used in the activity or the dangerous propensity of a particular animal used in such activity and does not make the danger known to the participant, and the danger proximately causes injury, damage, or death to the participant.

(c) Nothing in subsection (a) of this section prevents or limits the liability of an agritourism professional under liability provisions as set forth in Chapter 99B of the General Statutes.

(d) Any limitation on legal liability afforded by this section to an agritourism professional is in addition to any other limitations of legal liability otherwise provided by law.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-116-6 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-116-6
§ 143-116.6. Rules concerning conduct; violation
Status: in_force

(a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services may adopt rules for State-owned institutions under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and Human Services for the regulation and deportment of persons in the buildings and grounds of the institutions, and for the suppression of nuisances and disorder. Rules adopted under this section shall be consistent with G.S. 14-132 . Copies of the rules shall be posted at the entrance to the grounds and at different places on the grounds.

(b) Any person violating such rules shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-5-1 — NC Code / Chapter 148 / Section 148-5-1
§ 148-5.1. Confining inmates away from victims
Status: in_force

If a victim or immediate family member of a victim requests that, for the safety of the victim or family member, an inmate be confined outside the county where the victim or family member resides or is employed, the Department shall make a reasonable effort to house the inmate in a facility in another county. If the inmate is not so housed in another county, the Department shall notify the victim or family member in writing.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 122C-119 — NC Code / Chapter 122C / Section 122C-119
§ 122C-119. Organization of area board
Status: in_force

(a) The area board shall meet at least six times per year.

(b) Meetings shall be called by the area board chairman or by three or more members of the board after notifying the area board chairman in writing.

(c) Members of the area board elect the board's chairman. The term of office of the area board chairman shall be one year. A county commissioner area board member may serve as the area board chairman.

(d) The area board shall establish a finance committee that shall meet at least six times per year to review the financial strength of the area program. The finance committee shall have a minimum of three members, two of whom have expertise in budgeting and fiscal control. The member of the area board who is the county finance officer or individual with financial expertise shall serve as an ex officio member. All other finance officers of participating counties in a multicounty area authority may serve as ex officio members. If the area board so chooses, the entire area board may function as the finance committee; however, its required meetings as a finance committee shall be distinct from its meetings as an area board.