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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-82-1 — NC Code / Chapter 136 / Section 136-82-1
§ 136-82.1. Authority to insure vessels operated by Department of Transportation
Status: in_force

The Department of Transportation is vested with authority to purchase liability insurance, hull insurance, and protection insurance on all vessels and boats owned, leased, chartered or otherwise controlled and operated by the Department of Transportation.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-10-790 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-10-790
§ 58-10-790. Sanctions
Status: in_force

(a) Civil Penalties.--Any insurer failing, without just cause, to timely file the CGAD as required in this Part shall be subject to a civil penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each day's delay, not to exceed a total penalty of one thousand dollars ($1,000).

(b) Notice and Opportunity to Be Heard Required.--After providing notice and opportunity to be heard in accordance with the provisions of Article 3A of Chapter 150B of the General Statutes, the Commissioner may order the respondent to pay the assessment and civil penalty imposed by this section.

(c) Disposition of Civil Penalties.--The clear proceeds of civil penalties provided for in this section shall be remitted to the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund in accordance with G.S. 115C-457.2 .

(d) Reduction of Civil Penalties.--The Commissioner may reduce the penalty if the insurer demonstrates to the Commissioner that the imposition of the penalty would constitute a financial hardship to the insurer.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-365 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-365
§ 105-365. Preference accorded taxes in liquidation of debtors' estates
Status: in_force

In all cases in which a taxpayer's assets are in the hands of a receiver or assignee for the benefit of creditors or are otherwise being liquidated or managed for the benefit of creditors, the taxes owed by the debtor (together with interest, penalties, and costs) shall be a preferred claim, second only to administration expenses and specific liens. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to modify or reduce the priority given by G.S. 105-356 to tax liens on real and personal property or to alter or preclude the exercise of any remedies against personal property provided for in G.S. 105-366 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-309-116 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-309-116
§ 130A-309.116. Authority to adopt ordinances
Status: in_force

A county, or a unit of local government that is delegated authority to do so by the county, may adopt ordinances it deems necessary in order to implement this Part.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 122C-202 — NC Code / Chapter 122C / Section 122C-202
§ 122C-202. Applicability of Article
Status: in_force

This Article applies to all facilities unless expressly provided otherwise. Specific provisions that are delineated by the disability of the client, whether the client has a mental illness, has an intellectual or other developmental disability, or is a substance abuser, also apply to all facilities for that client's disability. Provisions that refer to a specific facility or type of facility apply only to the designated facility or facilities.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 35A-1239 — NC Code / Chapter 35A / Section 35A-1239
§ 35A-1239. Health and Human Services bond
Status: in_force

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services shall require or purchase individual or blanket bonds for all disinterested public agents appointed to be guardians, whether they serve as guardians of the estate, guardians of the person, or general guardians, or one blanket bond covering all agents, the bond or bonds to be conditioned upon faithful performance of their duties as guardians and made payable to the State. The premiums shall be paid by the State.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143A-21 — NC Code / Chapter 143A / Section 143A-21
§ 143A-21. Secretary of State; transfer of powers and duties to Department
Status: reserved

Except as otherwise provided in the Constitution or in this Chapter, all powers, duties and functions vested by law in the Secretary of State are transferred by a Type I transfer to the Department of the Secretary of State.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-877 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-877
§ 106-877. State timber may be sold by Department; forest nurseries; operation of public service facilities; concessions to private concerns; authority to charge fees and adopt rules
Status: in_force

(a) Timber and other products of State forests may be sold, cut, and removed under rules of the Department. The Department may establish and operate forest tree nurseries and forest tree seed orchards. Forest tree seedlings and seed from these nurseries and seed orchards may be sold to landowners of the State for purposes of forestation under rules adopted by the Department. When the Commissioner determines that a surplus of seedlings or seed exists, this surplus may be sold, and the sale shall be in conformity with the following priority of sale: first, to agencies of the federal government for planting in the State of North Carolina; second, to commercial nurseries and nurserymen within this State; and third, without distinction, to federal agencies, to other states, and to recognized research organizations for planting either within or outside of this State. The Department shall make reasonable rules governing the use by the public of State forests under its charge. These rules shall be posted in conspicuous places on and adjacent to the properties of the State and at the courthouse of the county or counties in which the properties are located. A violation of these rules is punishable as a Class 3 misdemeanor.

(b) The Department may construct, operate, and maintain within the State forests and other areas under its charge suitable public service facilities and conveniences, and may charge and collect reasonable fees for the use of these facilities and conveniences. The Department may also charge and collect reasonable fees for hunting privileges on State forests and fishing privileges in State forests, provided that these privileges shall be extended only to holders of State hunting and fishing licenses who comply with all State game and fish laws.

(c) The Department may grant to private individuals or companies concessions for operation of public service facilities for such periods and upon such conditions as the Department deems to be in the public interest. The Department may adopt reasonable rules for the regulation of the use by the public of the lands and waters under its charge and of the public service facilities and conveniences authorized under this section. A violation of these rules is punishable as a Class 3 misdemeanor.

(d) The authority granted to the Department under this section is in addition to any authority granted to the Department under any other provision of law.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 156-37 — NC Code / Chapter 156 / Section 156-37
§ 156-37. Petition filed in superior court
Status: in_force

Any proprietor in fee of swamplands, which cannot be drained except by cutting a canal through the lands of another or other proprietor in fee, situated at a lower level and which would also be materially benefited by the cutting of such canal, who desires that such canal be cut on the terms on which it is hereinafter allowed, may apply by petition, setting forth the facts, to the superior court of the county in which any of the lands through which the canal will pass may lie.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-502-1 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-502-1
§ 15A-502.1. DNA sample upon arrest
Status: in_force

A DNA sample shall be obtained from any person arrested for an offense designated under G.S. 15A-266.3A , in accordance with the provisions contained in Article 13 of Chapter 15A of the General Statutes.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 168A-10-1 — NC Code / Chapter 168A / Section 168A-10-1
§ 168A-10.1. Dispute resolution in public services discrimination cases
Status: in_force

The North Carolina Office on the Americans with Disabilities Act shall adopt rules to provide a consistent and comprehensive mechanism for accommodating requests regarding accessibility to public services, and shall adopt dispute resolution procedures to govern responsiveness to those requests. This section does not authorize the North Carolina Office on the Americans with Disabilities Act to adopt rules or procedures that apply to the resolution of matters constituting grounds for a contested case under Chapter 126 of the General Statutes .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-324 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-324
§ 106-324. Appraisal of cattle affected with Bang's disease and tuberculosis
Status: in_force

Cattle affected with Bang's disease and tuberculosis and paratuberculosis shall be appraised by three men--one to be chosen by the owner, one by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, and one by the State Veterinarian. If the United States Bureau of Animal Industry is not represented, then the appraisers shall be chosen, one by the owner, one by the State Veterinarian, the third by the first two named. The finding of such appraisers shall be final.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-10 — NC Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14-10
§ 14-10. Secret political and military organizations forbidden
Status: in_force

If any person, for the purpose of compassing or furthering any political object, or aiding the success of any political party or organization, or resisting the laws, shall join or in any way connect or unite himself with any oath-bound secret political or military organization, society or association of whatsoever name or character; or shall form or organize or combine and agree with any other person or persons to form or organize any such organization; or as a member of any secret political or military party or organization shall use, or agree to use, any certain signs or grips or passwords, or any disguise of the person or voice, or any disguise whatsoever for the advancement of its object, and shall take or administer any extrajudicial oath or other secret, solemn pledge, or any like secret means; or if any two or more persons, for the purpose of compassing or furthering any political object, or aiding the success of any political party or organization, or circumventing the laws, shall secretly assemble, combine or agree together, and the more effectually to accomplish such purposes, or any of them, shall use any certain signs, or grips, or passwords, or any disguise of the person or voice, or other disguise whatsoever, or shall take or administer any extrajudicial oath or other secret, solemn pledge; or if any persons shall band together and assemble to muster, drill or practice any military evolutions except by virtue of the authority of an officer recognized by law, or of an instructor in institutions or schools in which such evolutions form a part of the course of instruction; or if any person shall knowingly permit any of the acts and things herein forbidden to be had, done or performed on his premises, or on any premises under his control; or if any person being a member of any such secret political or military organization shall not at once abandon the same and separate himself entirely therefrom, every person so offending shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-379 — NC Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-379
§ 20-379. Department of Public Safety to audit motor carriers for compliance
Status: in_force

The Department of Public Safety must periodically audit each motor carrier to determine if the carrier is complying with this Article and, if the motor carrier is subject to regulation by the North Carolina Utilities Commission, with Chapter 62 of the General Statutes . In conducting the audit, the Department of Public Safety may examine a person under oath, compel the production of papers and the attendance of witnesses, and copy a paper for use in the audit. An employee of the Department of Public Safety may enter the premises of a motor carrier during reasonable hours to enforce this Article. When on the premises of a motor carrier, an employee of the Department of Public Safety may set up and use equipment needed to make the tests required by this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47-17 — NC Code / Chapter 47 / Section 47-17
§ 47-17. Probate and registration sufficient without livery of seizin, etc.
Status: in_force

All deeds, contracts or leases, before registration, except those executed prior to January 1, 1870, shall be acknowledged by the grantor, lessor or the person executing the same, or their signature proven on oath by one or more witnesses in the manner prescribed by law, and all deeds executed and registered according to law shall be valid, and pass title and estates without livery of seizin, attornment or other ceremony.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-67-80 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-67-80
§ 58-67-80. Meaning of terms “accident”, “accidental injury”, and “accidental means”
Status: in_force

(a) Effective October 1, 1989, this section applies to all health maintenance organization plans under this Article.

(b) “Accident”, “accidental injury”, and “accidental means” shall be defined to imply “result” language and shall not include words that establish an accidental means test.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-14-9 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-14-9
§ 90-14.9. Appeal bond; stay of Board order
Status: in_force

(a) The person seeking the review shall file with the clerk of the reviewing court a copy of the notice of appeal and an appeal bond of two hundred dollars ($200.00) at the same time the notice of appeal is filed with the Board. Subject to subsection (b) of this section, at any time before or during the review proceeding the aggrieved person may apply to the reviewing court for an order staying the operation of the Board decision pending the outcome of the review, which the court may grant or deny in its discretion.

(b) No stay shall be granted under this section unless the Board is given prior notice and an opportunity to be heard in response to the application for an order staying the operation of the Board decision.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-316-7 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-316-7
§ 105-316.7. Mobile home defined
Status: in_force

For the purpose of G.S. 105-316.1 through 105-316.8 , “mobile home” means a structure that (i) is designed, constructed, and intended for use as a dwelling house, office, place of business, or similar place of habitation and (ii) is capable of being transported from place to place on wheels attached to its frame. It also means a manufactured home as described in G.S. 105-273(13) . This definition does not include trailers and vehicles required to be registered annually pursuant to Part 3, Article 3 of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-1-112 — NC Code / Chapter 36C / Section 36C-1-112
§ 36C-1-112. Rules of construction
Status: in_force

The rules of construction that apply in this State to the interpretation of and disposition of property by will also apply as appropriate to the interpretation of the terms of a trust and the disposition of the trust property.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 114-8-1 — NC Code / Chapter 114 / Section 114-8-1
§ 114-8.1. Attorney General interns
Status: in_force

The Attorney General may select interns to work in the Attorney General's Office from institutions of higher education, including the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina. The Attorney General may adopt policies or rules to provide for the selection, tenure, duties, and compensation of these interns.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-89-211 — NC Code / Chapter 136 / Section 136-89-211
§ 136-89.211. Tolls for use of Turnpike project
Status: in_force

In exercising its authority under G.S. 136-89.183 to set tolls for the use of a Turnpike project, the Authority may not do any of the following:

(1) Set open road tolls that vary for the same class of motor vehicle depending on the method by which the Authority identifies a motor vehicle that drives on the Turnpike project. This does not preclude the Authority from allowing a discount for a motor vehicle equipped with an electronic toll collection transponder or a motor vehicle that has prepaid its toll.

(2) Exempt a motor vehicle that is not a law enforcement vehicle, an emergency fire or rescue vehicle, or an emergency medical services vehicle from the requirement of paying a toll for the use of a Turnpike project.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-9-103-1 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-9-103-1
§ 25-9-103.1. Production-money crops; production-money obligation; production-money security interest; burden of establishing
Status: in_force

(a) Production-money crops. -- A security interest in crops is a production-money security interest to the extent that the crops are production-money crops.

(b) Production-money obligation. -- If the extent to which a security interest is a production-money security interest depends on the application of a payment to a particular obligation, the payment must be applied:

(1) In accordance with any reasonable method of application to which the parties agree;

(2) In the absence of the parties' agreement to a reasonable method, in accordance with any intention of the obligor manifested at or before the time of payment; or

(3) In the absence of an agreement to a reasonable method and a timely manifestation of the obligor's intention, in the following order:

a. To obligations that are not secured; and

b. If more than one obligation is secured, to obligations secured by production-money security interests in the order in which those obligations were incurred.

(c) Production-money security interest. -- A production-money security interest does not lose its status as such, even if:

(1) The production-money crops also secure an obligation that is not a production-money obligation;

(2) Collateral that is not production-money crops also secures the production-money obligation; or

(3) The production-money obligation has been renewed, refinanced, or restructured.

(d) Burden of proof. -- A secured party claiming a production-money security interest has the burden of establishing the extent to which the security interest is a production-money security interest.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105A-15 — NC Code / Chapter 105A / Section 105A-15
§ 105A-15. Confidentiality exemption; nondisclosure
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding G.S. 105-259 or any other provision of law prohibiting disclosure by the Department of the contents of taxpayer records or information and notwithstanding any confidentiality statute of any claimant agency, the exchange of any information among the Department, the claimant agency, the organization submitting debts on behalf of a local agency, and the debtor necessary to implement this Chapter is lawful.

(b) The information a claimant agency or an organization submitting debts on behalf of a local agency obtains from the Department in accordance with the exemption allowed by subsection (a) may be used by the agency or organization only in the pursuit of its debt collection duties and practices and may not be disclosed except as provided in G.S. 105-259 , 153A-148.1 , or 160A-208.1 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 121-27 — NC Code / Chapter 121 / Section 121-27
§ 121-27. Law-enforcement agencies empowered to assist Department
Status: in_force

All law-enforcement agencies and officers, State and local, are hereby empowered to assist the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources in carrying out its duties under this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-277 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-277
§ 163-277. Compelling self-incriminating testimony; person so testifying excused from prosecution
Status: in_force

No person shall be excused from attending or testifying or producing any books, papers or other documents before any court or magistrate upon any investigation, proceeding or trial for the violation of any of the provisions of this Article, upon the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate or degrade him, but such person may be subpoenaed and required to testify by and for the State relative to any offense arising under the provisions of this Article; but such person shall not be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be used against him upon any criminal investigation or proceeding, but such person so compelled to testify with respect to any acts of his own shall be immune from prosecution on account thereof, and shall be pardoned for any violation of law about which such person shall be so required to testify.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-32 — NC Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-32
§ 20-32. Unlawful to permit unlicensed minor to drive motor vehicle
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or knowingly permit any minor under the age of 18 years to drive a motor vehicle upon a highway as an operator, unless such minor shall have first obtained a license to so drive a motor vehicle under the provisions of this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-93-60 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-93-60
§ 58-93-60. Examinations
Status: in_force

The Commissioner may make an examination of the affairs of any PHP as often as the Commissioner determines it to be necessary for the protection of the interests of the enrollees or the State but not less frequently than once every five years. The Commissioner shall notify DHHS prior to any examination of a PHP and shall provide DHHS with the results of an examination in accordance with G.S. 58-93-5(e) . Examinations shall otherwise be conducted under G.S. 58-2-131 through G.S. 58-2-134 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-398 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-398
§ 106-398. Punishment for sale of animals known to be infected, or under quarantine
Status: in_force

Any person or persons who shall willfully and knowingly sell or otherwise dispose of any animal or animals known to be affected with brucellosis, or under quarantine because of suspected exposure to brucellosis, except as provided for in G.S. 106-388 to 106-398 , shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-305 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-305
§ 105-305. Place for listing intangible personal property
Status: reserved

(a) Listing Instructions.--This section applies to all taxable intangible personal property that has a tax situs in this State and is not required by this Subchapter to be appraised originally by the Department of Revenue. The place in this State at which this property is taxable shall be determined as provided in this section. The person whose duty it is to list property shall list it in the county in which the place of taxation is located, indicating on the abstract the information required by G.S. 105-309(d) . If the place of taxation lies within a city or town that requires separate listing under G.S. 105-326(a) , the person whose duty it is to list shall also list the property for taxation in the city or town.

(b) Repealed by S.L. 1997-456, § 43(a) eff. July 1, 1997 .

(c) Intangible personal property representing an interest or interests in real property that is situated in this State shall be taxable in the place in which the represented real property is located.

(d), (e) Repealed by S.L. 1997-456, § 43(a), eff. July 1, 1997 .