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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 116D-47 — NC Code / Chapter 116D / Section 116D-47
§ 116D-47. Variable rate demand bonds and notes
Status: in_force

(a) In fixing the details of bonds and notes, the State Treasurer may provide that the bonds and notes may:

(1) Be made payable from time to time on demand or tender for purchase by the owner, if a credit facility supports the bonds or notes, unless the State Treasurer specifically determines that a credit facility is not required upon a finding and determination by the State Treasurer that the absence of a credit facility will not materially and adversely affect the financial position of the State and the marketing of the bonds or notes at a reasonable interest cost to the State.

(2) Be additionally supported by a credit facility.

(3) Be made subject to redemption or a mandatory tender for purchase prior to maturity.

(4) Bear interest at rates that may vary from any periods of time, as may be provided in the proceedings providing for the issuance of the bonds or notes, including, without limitation, any variations as may be permitted pursuant to a par formula.

(5) Be made the subject of a remarketing agreement whereby an attempt is made to remarket bonds or notes to new purchasers prior to their presentment for payment to the provider of the credit facility or to the State.

(b) If the aggregate principal amount payable by the State under a credit facility is in excess of the aggregate principal amount of bonds or notes secured by the credit facility, whether as a result of the inclusion in the credit facility of a provision for the payment of interest for a limited period of time or the payment of a redemption premium, or for any other reason, then the amount of authorized but unissued bonds or notes during the term of the credit facility shall not be less than the amount of the excess, unless the payment of the excess is otherwise provided for by agreement of the State executed by the State Treasurer.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76A-1 — NC Code / Chapter 76A / Section 76A-1
§ 76A-1. Commission established; powers generally
Status: in_force

In consideration of the requirement for the safe and expeditious movement of waterborne commerce on the navigable waters of the State, it is deemed necessary to establish the Cape Fear Navigation and Pilotage Commission, hereinafter referred to as the Commission. The Commission shall have the exclusive power to license and regulate a group of river pilots familiar with the waters of the Cape Fear River and Bar to best guide vessels within those waters and to exercise authority over navigation in the Cape Fear and Bar and to and from the sea buoy of the port.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-278-32 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-278-32
§ 163-278.32. Statements under oath
Status: in_force

Any statement required to be filed under this Article shall be signed and certified as true and correct by the individual, media, candidate, treasurer or others required to file it, and shall be certified as true and correct to the best of the knowledge of the individual, media, candidate, treasurer or others filing the statement; provided further that the candidate shall certify as true and correct to the best of his knowledge the organizational report and appointment of treasurer filed for the candidate or the candidate's principal campaign committee. A certification under this Article shall be treated as under oath, and any person making a certification under this Article knowing the information to be untrue is guilty of a Class I felony.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-64-11 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-64-11
§ 143-64.11. Definitions
Status: reserved

For purposes of this Article:

(1) “Economic life” means the projected or anticipated useful life of a facility.

(2) “ Energy-consumption analysis ” means the evaluation of all energy-consuming systems, including systems that consume water or other utilities, and components of these systems by demand and type of energy or other utility use, including the internal energy load imposed on a facility by its occupants, equipment and components, and the external energy load imposed on the facility by climatic conditions.

(2a) “ Energy Office ” means the State Energy Office of the Department of Environmental Quality.

(2b) “ Energy-consuming system ” includes but is not limited to any of the following equipment or measures:

a. Equipment used to heat, cool, or ventilate the facility;

b. Equipment used to heat water in the facility;

c. Lighting systems;

d. On-site equipment used to generate electricity for the facility;

e. On-site equipment that uses the sun, wind, oil, natural gas, liquid propane gas, coal, or electricity as a power source; and

f. Energy conservation measures, as defined in G.S. 143-64.17 , in the facility design and construction that decrease the energy, water, or other utility requirements of the facility.

(3) “ Facility ” means a building or a group of buildings served by a central distribution system for energy, water, or other utility or components of a central distribution system.

(4) “Initial cost” means the required cost necessary to construct or renovate a facility.

(5) “Life-cycle cost analysis” means an analytical technique that considers certain costs of owning, using, and operating a facility over its economic life, including but not limited to:

a. Initial costs;

b. System repair and replacement costs;

c. Maintenance costs;

d. Operating costs, including energy costs; and

e. Salvage value.

(6) Repealed by Laws 1993, c. 334, § 3, eff. July 13, 1993 .

(7) “State agency” means the State of North Carolina or any board, bureau, commission, department, institution, or agency of the State.

(8) “State-assisted facility” means a facility constructed or renovated in whole or in part with State funds or with funds guaranteed or insured by a State agency.

(9) “State facility” means a facility constructed or renovated, by a State agency.

(10) “ State institution of higher learning ” means any constituent institution of The University of North Carolina.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55A-8-01 — NC Code / Chapter 55A / Section 55A-8-01
§ 55A-8-01. Requirement for and duties of board
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, each corporation shall have a board of directors.

(b) All corporate powers shall be exercised by or under the authority of, and the affairs of the corporation managed under the direction of, its board of directors, except as otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation.

(c) A corporation may dispense with or limit the authority of a board of directors by describing in its articles of incorporation who will perform some or all of the duties of a board of directors; but no such limitation upon the authority which the board of directors would otherwise have shall be effective against other persons without actual knowledge of such limitation.

(d) To the extent the articles of incorporation vests authority of the board of directors in an individual or group other than the board of directors, the individual or group in the exercise of such authority shall be deemed to be acting as the board of directors for all purposes of this Chapter.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47F-2-101 — NC Code / Chapter 47F / Section 47F-2-101
§ 47F-2-101. Creation of the planned community
Status: in_force

A declaration creating a planned community shall be executed in the same manner as a deed and shall be recorded in every county in which any portion of the planned community is located.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-4002 — NC Code / Chapter 7B / Section 7B-4002
§ 7B-4002. Implementation of the Compact
Status: in_force

(a) The North Carolina State Council for Interstate Juvenile Supervision is hereby established. The Secretary of Public Safety, or the Secretary's designee, shall serve as the Compact Administrator for the State of North Carolina and as North Carolina's Commissioner to the Interstate Commission. The Secretary of Public Safety, or the Secretary's designee, is a member of the State Council and serves as chairperson of the State Council. In addition to the chairperson, the State Council shall consist of 10 members as follows:

(1) One member representing the executive branch, to be appointed by the Governor;

(2) One member from a victim's assistance group, to be appointed by the Governor;

(3) One at-large member, to be appointed by the Governor;

(4) One member of the Senate, to be appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate;

(5) One member of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;

(6) A district court judge, to be appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; and

(7) Four members representing the juvenile court counselors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety.

(b) The State Council shall meet at least twice a year and may also hold special meetings at the call of the chairperson. All terms are for three years.

(c) The State Council may advise the Compact Administrator on participation in the Interstate Commission activities and administration of the Compact.

(d) The members of the State Council shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for necessary travel and subsistence expenses in accordance with the policies of the Office of State Budget and Management.

(e) The State Council shall act in an advisory capacity to the Secretary of Public Safety concerning this State's participation in Interstate Commission activities and other duties as may be determined by each member state, including recommendations for policy concerning the operations and procedures of the Compact within this State.

(f) The Governor shall by executive order provide for any other matters necessary for implementation of the Compact at the time that it becomes effective, and, except as otherwise provided for in this section, the State Council may promulgate rules or regulations necessary to implement and administer the Compact.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-6 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-6
§ 1-6 Civil action
Status: in_force

Every other is a civil action. (C.C.P., s. 6; Code, s. 130; Rev., s. 351; C.S., s. 396.)Every other is a civil action.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 153A-48 — NC Code / Chapter 153A / Section 153A-48
§ 153A-48. Ordinance book
Status: in_force

The clerk shall maintain an ordinance book, separate from the minute book of the board of commissioners. The ordinance book shall be indexed and shall be available for public inspection in the office of the clerk. Except as provided in this section and in G.S. 153A-47 , each county ordinance shall be filed and indexed in the ordinance book.

The budget ordinance and any amendments thereto, any bond order, and any other ordinance of limited interest or transitory nature may be omitted from the ordinance book. However, the ordinance book shall contain a section showing the caption of each omitted ordinance and the page in the commissioners' minute book at which the ordinance may be found.

If a county adopts and issues a code of its ordinances, county ordinances need be recorded and indexed in the ordinance book only until they are placed in the codification.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 87-129-1 — NC Code / Chapter 87 / Section 87-129-1
§ 87-129.1. Fee to defray operating costs
Status: in_force

The Board is authorized to impose an annual fee on operators in order to provide sufficient moneys to fund the activities and operations of the Board in reviewing reports of alleged violations of this Article. The fee shall be based on volume of notifications provided by the Notification Center to an operator as compared to the total volume of notifications to all operators in the preceding fiscal year and shall be set at a rate determined by the Board such that the total proceeds of all fees collected shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) annually to fund the activities and operations of the Board. The Board may exclude de minimis contributors from any fee assessment under this subsection. Failure to pay the assessed fee within 30 days of when the fee is due is a violation of this Article, and the Board may seek the imposition of a penalty for the nonpayment under the procedures set forth in G.S. 87-129(b1) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 54B-64 — NC Code / Chapter 54B / Section 54B-64
§ 54B-64. Civil penalties; State associations
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, any association which is found to have violated any provision of this Article may be ordered to forfeit and pay a civil penalty of up to twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). Any association which is found to have violated or failed to comply with any cease and desist order issued under the authority of this Article may be ordered to forfeit or pay a civil penalty of up to twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for each day that the violation or failure to comply continues.

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 .

(b) To enforce the provisions of this section, the Commissioner of Banks is authorized to assess such a penalty and to appear in a court of competent jurisdiction and to move the court to order payment of the penalty. Prior to the assessment of the penalty, a hearing shall be held by the Commissioner of Banks which shall comply with the provisions of Article 3 of Chapter 150B of the General Statutes.

(c) If the Commissioner of Banks determines that, as a result of a violation of any provision of this Article, or of a failure to comply with any cease and desist order issued under the authority of this Article, a situation exists requiring immediate corrective action, the Commissioner of Banks may impose the civil penalty in this section on the association without a prior hearing, and said penalty shall be effective as of the date of notice to the association. Imposition of such penalty may be directly appealed to the Wake County Superior Court.

(d) Nothing in this section shall prevent anyone damaged by a State association from bringing a separate cause of action in a court of competent jurisdiction.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-904 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-904
§ 143B-904. Collection of statistics on the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to its other duties, the Department of Public Safety shall collect, maintain, and annually publish the number of deaths, by law enforcement agency, resulting from the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers in the course and scope of their official duties.

(b) For purposes of this section, “ law enforcement officer ” means sworn law enforcement officers with the power of arrest, both State and local.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-339-20 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-339-20
§ 1-339.20. Public sale; postponement of sale
Status: reserved

(a) A person authorized to hold a public sale by auction may postpone the sale to a day certain not later than 90 days after the original date for the sale, and a person authorized to hold a public sale of timber by sealed bid may postpone the time for submitting and opening bids to a date, time, and place certain not later than 90 days after the original date for the opening of bids if any of the following occurs:

(1) There are no bidders.

(2) In the person's judgment, the number of prospective bidders at the sale is substantially decreased by inclement weather or by any casualty.

(3) There are so many other sales advertised to be held at the same time and place as to make it inexpedient and impracticable, in the person's judgment, to hold the sale on that day.

(4) The person is unable to hold the sale because of illness or for other good reason.

(5) Other good cause exists.

The person authorized to hold the sale may postpone the sale more than once whenever any of these conditions are met, so long as the sale is held not later than 90 days after the original date for the sale, as computed pursuant to G.S. 1A-1, Rule 6 .

(b) Upon each postponement of public sale the person authorized to hold the sale shall personally, or through the person's agent or attorney, do all of the following:

(1) At the time and place advertised for the sale or for the opening of sealed bids, publicly announce the postponement.

(2) On the same day, attach to or enter on the notice of sale, as provided in G.S. 1-339.17 in the case of real property or G.S. 1-339.18 in the case of personal property, a notice of the postponement.

(2a) Give written or oral notice of postponement to each party previously served pursuant to G.S. 1A-1, Rule 4(j) . Written notice of postponement shall be served in any manner provided in G.S. 1A-1, Rule 5(b) .

(3) In the case of a public sale of timber by sealed bid, give notice of postponement to each person that submitted a bid.

(c) The notice of postponement shall be signed by the person authorized to hold the sale, or by the person's agent or attorney, and shall state the following:

(1) That the sale is postponed.

(2) In the case of a sale by public auction, the hour and date to which the sale is postponed.

(2a) In the case of a sale of timber by sealed bid, the date, time, and place to which the opening of bids is postponed.

(3) The reason for the postponement.

(4) Repealed by S.L. 2022-60, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2022 .

(d) If a public sale is not held at the time fixed for the sale and is not postponed as provided by this section, the person authorized to make the sale shall report these facts to the judge or clerk of court having jurisdiction, who shall order the time and place of the public sale of the property and the manner and length of time for the notice of the sale.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-47-105 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-47-105
§ 58-47-105. Dividends and other distributions
Status: in_force

(a) Group dividends and other distributions shall be made in accordance with G.S. 58-7-130 , 58-8-25(b) , and 58-19-30 . A group shall be in compliance with this Part before payment of dividends or other distributions to its members. No group shall pay dividends or other distributions to its members until two years after the group's licensing date.

(b) Payment of dividends to the members of any group shall not be contingent upon the maintenance or continuance of membership in the group.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 62-133-7A — NC Code / Chapter 62 / Section 62-133-7A
§ 62-133.7A. Rate adjustment mechanism for natural gas local distribution company rates
Status: in_force

In setting rates for a natural gas local distribution company in a general rate case proceeding under G.S. 62-133 , the Commission may adopt, implement, modify, or eliminate a rate adjustment mechanism to enable the company to recover the prudently incurred capital investment and associated costs of complying with federal gas pipeline safety requirements, including a return based on the company's then authorized return. The Commission shall adopt, implement, modify, or eliminate a rate adjustment mechanism authorized under this section only upon a finding by the Commission that the mechanism is in the public interest.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 166A-32 — NC Code / Chapter 166A / Section 166A-32
§ 166A-32. Disaster service volunteer leave
Status: in_force

An employee of a State agency who is a disaster service volunteer of the American Red Cross may be granted leave from his work with pay for a time not to exceed 15 work days in any 12-month period to participate in specialized disaster relief services for the American Red Cross. To be granted leave, the request for the services of that employee must come from the American Red Cross. The decision to grant the employee leave rests in the sole discretion of the employing State agency based on the work needs of that agency. Employees granted leave pursuant to this Article shall not lose seniority, pay, vacation time, sick time, or earned overtime accumulation. The State agency shall compensate an employee granted leave under this Article at the regular rate of pay for those regular work hours during which the employee is absent from his work. Leave under this Article shall be granted only for services related to a disaster occurring within the United States.

The State of North Carolina shall not be liable for workers compensation claims arising from accident or injury while the State employee is on assignment as a disaster service volunteer for the American Red Cross. Duties performed while on disaster leave shall not be considered to be a work assignment by a state agency. The employee is granted leave based on the need for the employee's area of expertise. Job functions although similar or related are performed on behalf of and for the benefit of the American Red Cross.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 54B-78 — NC Code / Chapter 54B / Section 54B-78
§ 54B-78. Prohibited practices
Status: in_force

Any person or association who shall engage in any of the following acts or practices shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor:

(1) Defamation: Making, publishing, disseminating, or circulating, directly or indirectly, or aiding, abetting, or encouraging the making, publishing, disseminating, or circulating of any oral, written, or printed statement which is false regarding the financial condition of any association.

(2) False information and advertising: Making, publishing, disseminating, or circulating or causing, directly or indirectly, to be made published, disseminated, circulated, or otherwise placed before the public in any publication, media, notice, pamphlet, letter, poster, or any other way, an advertisement, announcement, or statement containing any assertion, representation, or statement with respect to the savings and loan business or with respect to any person in the conduct of the savings and loan business which is untrue, deceptive, or misleading.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 74F-14 — NC Code / Chapter 74F / Section 74F-14
§ 74F-14. Customer identification
Status: in_force

When opening a locked door to any vehicle or residential or commercial property, a licensee shall make a reasonable effort to verify that the customer is the legal owner of the vehicle or property or is authorized by the legal owner to gain access to the vehicle or property.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-477 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-477
§ 130A-477. Abatement of public health threat
Status: in_force

If it is determined that a public health threat may exist because of the contamination of property caused by a terrorist incident using nuclear, biological, or chemical agents, the State Health Director may order any action to abate that public health threat. To the extent that any owner, lessee, operator, or other person in control of the property is innocent of culpability in the creation of the public health threat, that person shall not be responsible for the costs of abating the public health threat.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 65-77 — NC Code / Chapter 65 / Section 65-77
§ 65-77. Minimum burial depth
Status: in_force

When final disposition of a human body entails interment, the top of the uppermost part of the burial vault or other encasement shall be a minimum of 18 inches below the ground surface. This section does not apply to:

(1) Burials where no part of the burial vault or other encasement containing the body is touching the ground.

(2) Burials where the land is located in a family owned cemetery that was established by deed recorded prior to January 1, 1989, and the individual to be buried is to be buried in a surface burial vault in a manner similar to that of the individual's deceased spouse who was buried prior to January 1, 1981.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-106-1 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-106-1
§ 115C-106.1. State goal
Status: in_force

The goal of the State is to provide full educational opportunity to all children with disabilities who reside in the State.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-267 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-267
§ 1-267. Short title
Status: in_force

This Article may be cited as the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act.