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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 53-163-5 — NC Code / Chapter 53 / Section 53-163-5
§ 53-163.5. Establishment of common trust funds
Status: in_force

(a) Any trust institution duly authorized to act as a fiduciary in this State may establish and maintain one or more common trust funds for the collective investment of funds held in a fiduciary capacity by such trust institution hereafter referred to as the “maintaining institution.’’ The maintaining institution may include for the purposes of collective investment in such common trust fund or funds established and maintained by it, funds held in a fiduciary capacity by any other trust institution duly authorized to act as a fiduciary with which it is affiliated, wherever located, which other trust institution is hereinafter referred to as the “participating institution.’’

(b) For the purposes of this section, a maintaining institution shall be considered to be affiliated with a participating institution if it controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the participating institution, as control is determined under the federal Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 or by rule, order, or declaratory ruling of the Commissioner of Banks.

(c) Such common trust funds may include a fund composed solely of funds held under an agency agreement in which the trust institution assumes investment discretion and assumes fiduciary responsibility.

(d) Such trust institution may invest the funds held by it in any fiduciary capacity in one or more common trust funds, provided that (i) such investment is not prohibited by the instrument, judgment, decree or order creating such fiduciary relationship or amendment thereof, and (ii) the trust institution has no interest in the assets of the common trust fund other than as a fiduciary.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-384 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-384
§ 130A-384. Notification concerning out-of-state body
Status: in_force

When a body is brought into this State for disposal and there is reason to believe either that the death was not investigated properly or that there is not an adequate certificate of death, the body shall be reported to a medical examiner in the county where the body resides or to the Chief Medical Examiner. These deaths may be investigated by the same procedure as deaths occurring in this State under G.S. 130A-383 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55A-6-40 — NC Code / Chapter 55A / Section 55A-6-40
§ 55A-6-40. Delegates
Status: in_force

(a) A corporation may provide in its articles of incorporation or bylaws for delegates having some or all of the authority of members.

(b) The articles of incorporation or bylaws may set forth provisions relating to:

(1) The characteristics, qualifications, rights, limitations, and obligations of delegates, including their selection and removal;

(2) Calling, noticing, holding, and conducting meetings of delegates; and

(3) Carrying on corporate activities during and between meetings of delegates.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-135-116 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-135-116
§ 143B-135.116. Incorporation in National Trails System
Status: in_force

Nothing in this Part shall preclude a component of the State Trails System from becoming a part of the National Trails System, or a component of the National Trails System from becoming a part of the State Trails System. The Secretary shall coordinate the State Trails System with the National Trails System and is directed to encourage and assist any federal studies for inclusion of North Carolina trails in the National Trails System. The Department may enter into written cooperative agreements for joint federal-State administration of a North Carolina component of the National Trails System, provided such agreements for administration of land uses are not less restrictive than those set forth in this Part.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-418-9 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-418-9
§ 106-418.9. Exemptions
Status: in_force

The provisions of this Article shall not apply to a person who offers for sale or trade only livestock which he has raised or livestock which he owns or has had in his possession for a period of 30 days or longer or who has had the livestock grown under contract, and is not engaged in the business of buying, selling, trading, or negotiating the transfer of livestock. Neither shall this Article apply to a livestock market operator conducting sales in compliance with the Public Livestock Markets Act ( General Statutes Chapter 106, Article 35 ).
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105A-3 — NC Code / Chapter 105A / Section 105A-3
§ 105A-3. Remedy additional; mandatory State usage; optional local usage; obtaining identifying information; registration
Status: in_force

(a) Remedy Additional.--The collection remedy under this Chapter is in addition to and not in substitution for any other remedy available by law.

(b) Mandatory State Usage.--A State agency must submit a debt owed to it for collection under this Chapter unless the State Controller has waived this requirement or the State agency has determined that the validity of the debt is legitimately in dispute, an alternative means of collection is pending and believed to be adequate, or such a collection attempt would result in a loss of federal funds. The State Controller may waive the requirement for a State agency, other than the Department of Health and Human Services or a county acting on behalf of that Department, to submit a debt owed to it for collection under this Chapter if the State Controller finds that collection by this means would not be practical or cost effective. A waiver may apply to all debts owed a State agency or a type of debt owed a State agency.

(b1) Optional Local Usage.--A local agency may submit a debt owed to it for collection under this Chapter. A local agency that decides to submit a debt owed to it for collection under this Chapter must establish the debt by following the procedure set in G.S. 105A-5 and must submit the debt through one of the following:

(1) A clearinghouse that is established pursuant to an interlocal agreement adopted under Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes and has agreed to submit debts on behalf of any requesting local agency.

(2) The North Carolina League of Municipalities.

(3) The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners.

(c) Identifying Information.--All claimant agencies shall whenever possible obtain the full name, social security number or federal identification number, address, and any other identifying information required by the Department from any person for whom the agencies provide any service or transact any business and who the claimant agencies can foresee may become a debtor under this Chapter.

(d) Registration and Reports.--A State agency must register with the Department and with the State Controller. Every State agency must report annually to the State Controller the amount of debts owed to the agency for which the agency did not submit a claim for setoff and the reason for not submitting the claim.

A clearinghouse or an organization that submits debts on behalf of a local agency must register with the Department. Once a clearinghouse registers with the Department under this subsection, no other clearinghouse may register to submit debts for collection under this Chapter.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-495 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-495
§ 105-495. Short title
Status: in_force

This Article shall be known as the Second One-Half Cent ( 1 / 2 ¢) Local Government Sales and Use Tax Act.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-27-2 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-27-2
§ 163-27.2. Criminal history record checks of current and prospective employees of the State Board and county directors of elections
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this section, the term “ current or prospective employee ” means any of the following:

(1) A current or prospective permanent or temporary employee of the State Board or a current or prospective county director of elections.

(2) An employee or agent of a current or prospective contractor with the State Board.

(3) Any other individual otherwise engaged by the State Board who has or will have the capability to update, modify, or change elections systems or confidential elections or ethics data.

(b) A criminal history record check shall be required of all current or prospective permanent or temporary employees of the State Board and all current or prospective county directors of elections, which shall be conducted by the Department of Public Safety as provided in G.S. 143B-968 . The criminal history report shall be provided to the Executive Director, who shall keep all information obtained pursuant to this section confidential to the State Board, as provided in G.S. 143B-968(d) . A criminal history report provided under this subsection is not a public record under Chapter 132 of the General Statutes .

(c) If the current or prospective employee's verified criminal history record check reveals one or more convictions, the conviction shall constitute just cause for not selecting the person for employment or for dismissing the person from current employment. The conviction shall not automatically prohibit employment.

(d) A prospective employee may be denied employment or a current employee may be dismissed from employment for refusal to consent to a criminal history record check or to submit fingerprints or to provide other identifying information required by the State or National Repositories of Criminal Histories. Any such refusal shall constitute just cause for the employment denial or the dismissal from employment.

(e) A conditional offer of employment or appointment may be extended pending the results of a criminal history record check authorized by this section.

(f) A county board of elections shall require a criminal history record check of all current or prospective employees of the county board of elections, as defined in G.S. 163-37.1(a)(1) , who have or will have access to the statewide computerized voter registration system maintained under G.S. 163-82.11 and for any additional position or function as the State Board may designate. The county director of elections shall provide the criminal history record of all current or prospective employees of the county board of elections required by this subsection or in designated positions to the Executive Director and State Board.

(g) Neither appointment as a precinct official or assistant under Article 5 of this Chapter nor employment at a one-stop early voting location shall require a criminal history record check unless the official, assistant, or employee performs a function designated by the State Board pursuant to subsection (f) of this section.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59-73-13 — NC Code / Chapter 59 / Section 59-73-13
§ 59-73.13. Effects of conversion
Status: in_force

(a) When the conversion takes effect:

(1) The converting business entity ceases its prior form of organization and continues in existence as the resulting domestic partnership;

(2) The title to all real estate and other property owned by the converting business entity continues vested in the resulting domestic partnership without reversion or impairment;

(3) All liabilities of the converting business entity continue as liabilities of the resulting domestic partnership;

(4) A proceeding pending by or against the converting business entity may be continued as if the conversion did not occur; and

(5) The interests in the converting business entity that are to be converted into interests, obligations, or securities of the resulting domestic partnership or into the right to receive cash or other property are thereupon so converted, and the former holders of interests in the converting business entity are entitled only to the rights provided in the plan of conversion.

The conversion shall not affect the liability or absence of liability of any holder of an interest in the converting business entity for any acts, omissions, or obligations of the converting business entity made or incurred prior to the effectiveness of the conversion. The cessation of the existence of the converting business entity in its prior form of organization in the conversion shall not constitute a dissolution or termination of the converting business entity.

(b) When the conversion takes effect, the resulting domestic partnership is deemed:

(1) To agree that it may be served with process in this State for enforcement of (i) any obligation of the converting business entity and (ii) any obligation of the resulting domestic partnership arising from the conversion; and

(2) To have appointed the Secretary of State as its agent for service of process in any such proceeding. Service on the Secretary of State of any such process shall be made by delivering to and leaving with the Secretary of State, or with any clerk authorized by the Secretary of State to accept service of process, duplicate copies of the process and the fee required by G.S. 59-35.2 . Upon receipt of service of process on behalf of a resulting domestic partnership in the manner provided for in this section, the Secretary of State shall immediately mail a copy of the process by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the resulting domestic partnership. If the resulting domestic partnership is a registered limited liability partnership, the address for mailing shall be its principal office or, if there is no principal office on file, its registered office. If the resulting domestic partnership is not a registered limited liability partnership, the address for mailing shall be the mailing address designated pursuant to G.S. 59-73.12(a)(2) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 43-17-3 — NC Code / Chapter 43 / Section 43-17-3
§ 43-17.3. Answer by person claiming interest
Status: in_force

Any person asserting a claim or any interest in such registered land may, at any time prior to the hearing provided for in G.S. 43-17.4 , file such answer or other pleadings as may be proper, asserting his rights or claims to the property referred to in the petition.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 159G-32 — NC Code / Chapter 159G / Section 159G-32
§ 159G-32. Projects eligible for loan or grant
Status: in_force

(a) CWSRF and DWSRF.--Federal law determines whether a project is eligible for a loan or grant from the CWSRF and the DWSRF. A project must meet the eligibility requirements set under federal law.

(b) Wastewater Reserve.--The Department is authorized to make loans and grants from the Wastewater Reserve for the following types of projects:

(1) Wastewater collection system.

(2) Wastewater treatment works.

(3) Stormwater quality projects, including innovative stormwater management projects and pilot projects.

(4) Nonpoint source pollution project.

(c) Drinking Water Reserve.--The Department is authorized to make loans and grants from the Drinking Water Reserve for public water system projects.

(d) Viable Utility Reserve.--The Department is authorized to make grants from the Viable Utility Reserve to do any of the following:

(1) Provide physical interconnection and extension of public water or wastewater infrastructure to provide regional service.

(2) Rehabilitate existing public water or wastewater infrastructure.

(3) Decentralize an existing public water system or wastewater system into smaller viable parts.

(4) Fund a study of any one or more of the following:

a. Rates.

b. Asset inventory and assessment.

c. Merger and regionalization options.

(5) Fund other options deemed feasible which result in local government units generating sufficient revenues to adequately fund management and operations, personnel, appropriate levels of maintenance, and reinvestment that facilitate the provision of reliable water or wastewater services.

(6) Provide emergency grants for operating deficits in accordance with G.S. 159G-34.5(a)(4) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-48-90 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-48-90
§ 58-48-90. Termination; distribution of funds
Status: reserved

(a) The Commissioner shall by order terminate the operation of the North Carolina Insurance Guaranty Association as to any kind of insurance covered by this Article with respect to which he has found, after hearing, that there is in effect a statutory or voluntary plan which:

(1) Is a permanent plan which is adequately funded or for which adequate funding is provided; and

(2) Extends, or will extend to the North Carolina policyholders and residents protection and benefits with respect to insolvent insurers not substantially less favorable and effective to such policyholders and residents than the protection and benefits provided with respect to such kinds of insurance under this Article.

(b) The Commissioner shall by the same such order authorize discontinuance of future payments by insurers to the North Carolina Insurance Guaranty Association with respect to the same kinds of insurance; provided, the assessments and payments shall continue, as necessary, to liquidate covered claims of insurers adjudged insolvent prior to said order and the related expenses not covered by such other plan.

(c) In the event the operation of the North Carolina Insurance Guaranty Association shall be so terminated as to all kinds of insurance otherwise within its scope, the Association as soon as possible thereafter shall distribute the balance of moneys and assets remaining (after discharge of the functions of the Association with respect to prior insurer insolvencies not covered by such other plan, together with related expenses) to the insurers which are then writing in this State policies of the kinds of insurance covered by this Article and which had made payments to the Association, pro rata upon the basis of the aggregate of such payments made by the respective insurers during the period of five years next preceding the date of such order. Upon completion of such distribution with respect to all of the kinds of insurance covered by this Article, this Article shall be deemed to have expired.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 142-66 — NC Code / Chapter 142 / Section 142-66
§ 142-66. Payment provisions
Status: in_force

The payment of amounts payable by the State under a financing contract and any other related documentation during any fiscal biennium or fiscal year shall be limited to funds appropriated for that purpose by the General Assembly in its discretion. No provision of this Article and no financing contract or any other related documentation shall be construed or interpreted as creating a pledge of the faith and credit of the State or any agency, department, or commission of the State within the meaning of any constitutional debt limitation.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-7-102 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-7-102
§ 25-7-102. Definitions and index of definitions
Status: reserved

(a) In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “ Bailee ” means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them.

(2) “ Carrier ” means a person that issues a bill of lading.

(3) “ Consignee ” means a person named in a bill of lading to whom or to whose order the bill promises delivery.

(4) “ Consignor ” means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from whom the goods have been received for shipment.

(5) “ Delivery order ” means a record that contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person that in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading.

(6) Reserved for future codification purposes.

(7) “ Goods ” means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation.

(8) “ Issuer ” means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. The term includes a person for whom an agent or employee purports to act in issuing a document if the agent or employee has real or apparent authority to issue documents, even if the issuer did not receive any goods, the goods were misdescribed, or in any other respect the agent or employee violated the issuer's instructions.

(9) “ Person entitled under the document ” means the holder, in the case of a negotiable document of title, or the person to whom delivery of the goods is to be made by the terms of, or pursuant to instructions in a record under, a nonnegotiable document of title.

(10) Reserved for future codification purposes.

(11) “ Sign ” means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:

a. To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or

b. To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol, or process.

(12) “ Shipper ” means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier.

(13) “ Warehouse ” means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.

(b) Definitions in other Articles applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are:

(1) “ Contract for sale ,” G.S. 25-2-106 .

(2) “ Lessee in the ordinary course of business ,” G.S. 25-2A-103 .

(3) “ Receipt ” of goods, G.S. 25-2-103 .

(c) In addition, Article 1 of this Chapter contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-89A-120 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-89A-120
§ 58-89A-120. Unemployment taxes; payroll
Status: in_force

A licensee is the employer of an assigned employee for purposes of Chapters 95, 96 and 105 of the General Statutes . Nothing in this section shall otherwise affect the levy and collection of unemployment insurance contributions or the assignment of discrete employer numbers under the Employment Security Law. The Department of Commerce, Division of Employment Security (DES), shall cooperate with the Commissioner in the investigation of applicants and licensees and shall provide the Commissioner with access to all relevant records and data in the custody of the DES.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 116-209-11 — NC Code / Chapter 116 / Section 116-209-11
§ 116-209.11. Additional pledge
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary herein, the Authority is hereby authorized to pledge as security for any bonds issued hereunder any contract between the Authority and the United States of America under which the United States agrees to make funds available to the Authority for any of the purposes of this Article, to insure or guarantee the payment of interest or principal on student loans, or otherwise to aid in promoting or facilitating student loans.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 159-12 — NC Code / Chapter 159 / Section 159-12
§ 159-12. Filing and publication of the budget; budget hearings
Status: in_force

(a) On the same day that he submits the budget to the governing board, the budget officer shall file a copy of it in the office of the clerk to the board where it shall remain available for public inspection until the budget ordinance is adopted. The clerk shall make a copy of the budget available to all news media in the county. He shall also publish a statement that the budget has been submitted to the governing board, and is available for public inspection in the office of the clerk to the board. The statement shall also give notice of the time and place of the budget hearing required by subsection (b) of this section.

(b) Before adopting the budget ordinance, the board shall hold a public hearing at which time any persons who wish to be heard on the budget may appear.