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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-294 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-294
§ 163-294. Determination of election results in cities using nonpartisan primaries
Status: in_force

(a) In cities whose elections are nonpartisan and who use the nonpartisan primary and election method, there shall be a primary to narrow the field of candidates to two candidates for each position to be filled if, when the filing period closes, there are more than two candidates for a single office or the number of candidates for a group of offices exceeds twice the number of positions to be filled. If only one or two candidates file for a single office, no primary shall be held for that office and the candidates shall be declared nominated. If the number of candidates for a group of offices does not exceed twice the number of positions to be filled, no primary shall be held for those offices and the candidates shall be declared nominated.

(b) In the primary, the two candidates for a single office receiving the highest number of votes, and those candidates for a group of offices receiving the highest number of votes, equal to twice the number of positions to be filled, shall be declared nominated. In both the primary and election, a voter should not mark more names for any office than there are positions to be filled by election. If two or more candidates receiving the highest number of votes each received the same number of votes, the board of elections shall determine their relative ranking by lot, and shall declare the nominees accordingly. The canvass of the primary shall be held on the seventh day following the primary. In accepting the filing of complaints concerning the conduct of an election, a board of elections shall be subject to the rules concerning Sundays and holidays set forth in G.S. 103-5 .

(c) In the election, the names of those candidates declared nominated without a primary and those candidates nominated in the primary shall be placed on the ballot. The candidate for a single office receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected. Those candidates for a group of offices receiving the highest number of votes, equal in number to the number of positions to be filled, shall be elected. If two candidates receiving the highest number of votes each received the same number of votes, the board of elections shall determine the winner by lot.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 125-5 — NC Code / Chapter 125 / Section 125-5
§ 125-5. Public libraries to report to Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
Status: in_force

Every public library in the State shall make an annual report to the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources in such form as may be prescribed by the Department. The term “public library” shall, for the purpose of this section, include subscription libraries, college and university libraries, legal association, medical association, Supreme Court, and other special libraries.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 120-29 — NC Code / Chapter 120 / Section 120-29
§ 120-29. Journals deposited with Secretary of State
Status: in_force

The principal clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, as soon as may be practicable after the close of each session, shall deposit in the office of the Secretary of State the journals of the General Assembly; and the Secretary of State shall make and certify copies of any part or entry of the journals, and may take for the copy of each entry made and certified the same fee as for the copy of a grant.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-427 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-427
§ 115C-427. Preparation and submission of budget and budget message
Status: in_force

(a) Before the close of each fiscal year, the superintendent shall prepare a budget for the ensuing year for consideration by the board of education. The budget shall comply in all respects with the limitations imposed by G.S. 115C-432 .

(b) The budget, together with a budget message, shall be submitted to the board of education not later than May 1. The budget and budget message should, but need not, be submitted at a formal meeting of the board. The budget message should contain a concise explanation of the educational goals fixed by the budget for the budget year, should set forth the reasons for stated changes from the previous year in program goals, programs, and appropriation levels, and should explain any major changes in educational or fiscal policy.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-70-145 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-70-145
§ 58-70-145. Complaint of a collection agency plaintiff must contain certain allegations
Status: in_force

In any cause of action that arises out of the conduct of a business for which a plaintiff must secure a permit pursuant to this Article, the complaint shall allege as part of the cause of action that the plaintiff is duly licensed under this Article and shall contain the name and number, if any, of the license and the governmental agency that issued it.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-113-32 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-113-32
§ 105-113.32. Non-tax-paid cigarettes subject to confiscation
Status: in_force

All non-tax-paid cigarettes subject to the tax imposed by this Part, together with any container in which they are stored or displayed for sale (including but not limited to vending machines), are declared to be contraband goods and may be seized by any officer of the law. The officer shall arrest any person in charge of the contraband goods and shall at once proceed against the person arrested, under the provisions of this Part, in any court having competent jurisdiction. The disposition of the seized cigarettes and container shall be governed by the provisions of G.S. 105-113.31 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 162A-89-1 — NC Code / Chapter 162A / Section 162A-89-1
§ 162A-89.1. Eminent domain power authorized
Status: in_force

A county water and sewer district shall have the power of eminent domain, to be exercised in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40A of the General Statutes, over the acquisition of any improved or unimproved lands or rights in land, within or without the district.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-514 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-514
§ 106-514. Unlawful entry on grounds a misdemeanor
Status: in_force

If any person, after having been expelled from the fairgrounds of any agricultural or horticultural society, shall offer to enter the same again without permission from such society; or if any person shall break over [open] the enclosing structure of said fairgrounds and enter the same, or shall enter the enclosure of said fairgrounds by means of climbing over, under or through the enclosing structure surrounding the same, or shall enter the enclosure through the gates without the permission of its gatekeeper or the proper officer of said fair association, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-323 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-323
§ 105-323. Giving effect to decisions of the board of equalization and review
Status: in_force

All changes in listings, names, descriptions, appraisals, and assessments made by the board of equalization and review shall be reflected upon the abstracts and tax records by insertion of rebates given, additional charges made, or any other insertion; by correction; or by any other charge. The tax records shall then be totalled, and at least a majority of the members of the board of equalization and review shall sign the following statement to be inserted at the end of the tax records:

State of North Carolina

County of ․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

We, the undersigned members of the Board of Equalization and Review of ․․․․․․․․․․ County, hereby certify that these tax records constitute the fixed and permanent tax list and assessment roll and record of taxes due for the year ․․․․․, subject to only such changes as may be allowed by law.

The omission of this endorsement shall not affect the validity of the tax records or of any taxes levied on the basis of the assessments appearing in them.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-82-13 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-82-13
§ 163-82.13. Access to statewide voter registration file
Status: in_force

(a) Free Copy for Political Parties.--Beginning January 1, 1996, the State Board of Elections shall make available free of charge, upon written request, one magnetic copy of the statewide computerized voter registration file to the chairman of each political party as defined in G.S. 163-96 as soon as practicable after the close of registration before every statewide primary and election. The file made available to the political party chairmen shall contain the name, address, gender, age but not date of birth, race, voting history, political affiliation, and precinct of every registered voter in the State. If a county board enters telephone numbers into its computer lists of registered voters, then the free list provided under this subsection shall include telephone numbers.

(b) Copies for Sale to Others.--Beginning January 1, 1996, the State Board of Elections shall sell, upon written request, to other public and private organizations and persons magnetic copies of the statewide computerized voter registration file. The State Board of Elections may sell selective lists of registered voters according to county, congressional or legislative district, party affiliation, gender, age but not date of birth, race, date of registration, or any other reasonable category, or a combination of categories. The State Board of Elections shall require all persons to whom any list is furnished under this subsection to reimburse the board for the actual cost incurred in preparing it.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-164-28A — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-164-28A
§ 105-164.28A. Other exemption certificates
Status: in_force

(a) Authorization.--The Secretary may require a person who purchases an item that is exempt from tax to obtain an exemption certificate from the Department to receive the exemption. The Department must issue a use-based exemption number to a person who qualifies for the exemption. A person who no longer qualifies for a use-based exemption number must notify the Secretary within 30 days to cancel the number.

An exemption certificate issued by the purchaser authorizes a retailer to sell an item to the holder of the certificate and not collect tax on the sale. A person who no longer qualifies for an exemption certificate must give notice to each seller that may rely on the exemption certificate on or before the next purchase. A person who purchases an item under an exemption certificate is liable for any tax due on the purchase if the Department determines that the person is not eligible for the exemption certificate or if the person purchased items that do not qualify for an exemption under the exemption certificate. The liability is relieved when the seller obtains the purchaser's name, address, type of business, reason for exemption, and exemption number in lieu of obtaining an exemption certificate.

(b) Scope.--This section does not apply to a direct pay permit or a certificate of exemption. G.S. 105-164.27A addresses a direct pay permit, and G.S. 105-164.28 addresses a certificate of exemption.

(c) Administration.--This section shall be administered in accordance with G.S. 105-164.28 . Additionally, the provisions of this section may also apply to a conditional exemption certificate issued to a person in accordance with G.S. 105-164.13E .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-6 — NC Code / Chapter 42 / Section 42-6
§ 42-6. Rents, annuities, etc., apportioned, where right to payment terminated by death
Status: in_force

In all cases where rents, rent charges, annuities, pensions, dividends, or any other payments of any description, are made payable at fixed periods to successive owners under any instrument, or by any will, and where the right of any owner to receive payment is terminable by a death or other uncertain event, and where such right so terminates during a period in which a payment is growing due, the payment becoming due next after such terminating event shall be apportioned among the successive owners according to the parts of such periods elapsing before and after the terminating event.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-449-97 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-449-97
§ 105-449.97. Deductions and discounts allowed a supplier when filing a return
Status: reserved

(a) Taxes Not Remitted.--When a supplier files a return, the supplier may deduct from the amount of tax payable with the return the amount of tax any of the following licensees owes the supplier but failed to remit to the supplier:

(1) A licensed distributor.

(2) A licensed importer that removed the motor fuel on which the tax is due from a terminal of an elective or a permissive supplier.

(3) Repealed by Laws 1995, c. 647, § 32 .

A supplier is not liable for tax a licensee listed in this subsection owes the supplier but fails to pay. If a listed licensee pays tax owed to a supplier after the supplier deducts the amount on a return, the supplier must promptly remit the payment to the Secretary.

(b) Administrative Discount.--A supplier that files a timely return and sends a timely payment may deduct from the amount of tax payable with the return an administrative discount of one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of the amount of tax payable to this State as the trustee, not to exceed eight thousand dollars ($8,000) a month. The discount covers expenses incurred in collecting taxes on motor fuel.

(c) Percentage Discount.--A supplier that sells motor fuel directly to an unlicensed distributor or to the bulk end-user, the retailer, or the user of the fuel may take the same percentage discount on the fuel that a licensed distributor may take under G.S. 105-449.93(b) when making deferred payments of tax to the supplier.

(d) Taxes Paid on Exempt Retail Sales.--When filing a return, a supplier that issues or authorizes the issuance of an exempt card or code to a person that enables the person to buy motor fuel without paying tax on the fuel may deduct the amount of excise tax imposed on fuel purchased with the exempt card or code. The amount of excise tax imposed on fuel purchased with an exempt card or code is the amount that was imposed on the fuel when it was delivered to the retailer of the fuel.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 113A-220 — NC Code / Chapter 113A / Section 113A-220
§ 113A-220. Short title
Status: in_force

This Article shall be known as the Aquatic Weed Control Act of 1991.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 19-8 — NC Code / Chapter 19 / Section 19-8
§ 19-8. Costs
Status: in_force

The prevailing party shall be entitled to his costs. The court shall tax as part of the costs in any action brought hereunder such fee for the attorney prosecuting or defending the action or proceedings as may in the court's discretion be reasonable remuneration for the services performed by such attorney.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-234 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-234
§ 90-234. Necessity for certificate of registration
Status: in_force

On and after the first day of July, 1951, no person or combination of persons shall for pay, or reward, either directly or indirectly, practice as a dispensing optician as hereinafter defined in the State of North Carolina without a certificate of registration issued pursuant to the provisions of this Article by the North Carolina State Board of Opticians hereinafter established.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-3-10 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-3-10
§ 58-3-10. Statements in application not warranties
Status: in_force

All statements or descriptions in any application for a policy of insurance, or in the policy itself, shall be deemed representations and not warranties, and a representation, unless material or fraudulent, will not prevent a recovery on the policy.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-85-21D — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-85-21D
§ 90-85.21D. Dialysis facilities as designated agents to receive home medications for patients with renal failure
Status: in_force

Pharmacies may ship medications for home use by patients with renal failure to renal dialysis facilities for delivery to (i) patients who receive dialysis treatments in a Medicare certified dialysis facility or (ii) patients who self-dialyze at home, provided that all of the following criteria are met:

(1) The patient authorizes, in writing, the dialysis facility staff to act as the patient's designated agent for the purpose of receiving mailed medical packages at the dialysis facility.

(2) The pharmacy, whether in-state or out-of-state, is licensed as a pharmacy in North Carolina.

(3) The medications for home use are dispensed by the licensed pharmacist pursuant to a valid prescription order.

(4) The delivered medication packages are held in a secure location in an area not accessible to the public and delivered by the dialysis facility staff, unopened, to the patient.

(5) Medication packages are individually labeled with the patient name.

(6) The medications exclude controlled substances, as defined under G.S. 90-87 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 24-12 — NC Code / Chapter 24 / Section 24-12
§ 24-12. Applicability of Article
Status: in_force

This Article shall apply only to loans of money:

(1) Secured in whole or in part by a security instrument on real property, other than a first security instrument on real property; and

(2) The principal amount of the loan does not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000);

(3) The loan is repayable in no less than six nor more than 181 successive monthly payments, which payments shall be substantially equal in amount.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-56 — NC Code / Chapter 148 / Section 148-56
§ 148-56. Assistance in supervision of parolees or post-release supervisees and preparation of case histories
Status: in_force

Upon request by the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission, the county directors of social services shall assist in the supervision of parolees and shall prepare and submit to the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission case histories or other information in connection with any case under consideration for parole or some form of executive clemency.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-272-1 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-272-1
§ 160A-272.1. Lease of utility or enterprise property
Status: in_force

Subject to this Article and G.S. 160A-321 , a city-owned utility or public service enterprise, or part thereof, may be leased.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-11A-04 — NC Code / Chapter 55 / Section 55-11A-04
§ 55-11A-04. Effects of conversion
Status: in_force

When the conversion takes effect:

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

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

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

(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 shares, obligations, or other securities of the resulting domestic corporation 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.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 108A-146-12A — NC Code / Chapter 108A / Section 108A-146-12A
§ 108A-146.12A. Home and community-based services component
Status: in_force

The home and community-based services component is thirty-five million five hundred thousand dollars ($35,500,000) for each quarter of the 2023-2024 State fiscal year. For each subsequent State fiscal year, the home and community-based services component shall be increased over the prior year's quarterly amount by the Medicare Economic Index.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 54-110-3 — NC Code / Chapter 54 / Section 54-110-3
§ 54-110.3. Charter and name exclusive
Status: in_force

Only one corporate credit union shall be incorporated under this Article; and no other credit union may use the term “corporate credit union” as a part of its name.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-44-17 — NC Code / Chapter 136 / Section 136-44-17
§ 136-44.17. Pavement preservation program
Status: in_force

(a) Program Established.--The Department of Transportation shall establish the pavement preservation program.

(b) Eligible Activities or Treatments.--Applications eligible for funding under the pavement preservation program include the following preservation activities or treatments for asphalt pavement structures:

(1) Chip seals, slurry seals, fog seals, sand seals, scrub seals, and cape seals.

(2) Microsurfacing.

(3) Profile milling not covered by resurfacing.

(4) Asphalt rejuvenators.

(5) Open graded asphalt friction course.

(6) Overlays less than 1,000 feet in length.

(7) Diamond grinding.

(8) Joint sealing.

(9) Dowel bar retrofit.

(10) Partial-depth or full-depth repairs and reclamations.

(11) Ultra-thin whitetopping.

(12) Thin lift and sand asphalt overlays.

(13) Asphalt crack sealing.

(14) Pavement markers and markings.

(c) Ineligible Activities or Treatments.--The pavement preservation program shall not include the following preservation activities or treatments:

(1) Contract resurfacing activities or major pavement rehabilitation treatments and pretreatments that are used in combination with a resurfacing treatment, such as profile milling or chip seals.

(2) Routine maintenance activities used to maintain and preserve the condition of roads. Treatments include, but are not limited to, pothole patching, rut filling, cleaning of roadside ditches and structures, shoulder maintenance, and retracing of pavement markings.

(3) Maintenance and preservation activities performed on bridges or culverts.

(4) Activities related to positive guidance or signal maintenance program functions.

(d) Encumbrance Schedule.--Beginning in the 2015-2016 fiscal year, the Department of Transportation shall spend or encumber all funds appropriated by the General Assembly to the Department for the pavement preservation program by June 30 of the fiscal year for which the funds were appropriated.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 162A-85-21 — NC Code / Chapter 162A / Section 162A-85-21
§ 162A-85.21. Submission of preliminary plans to planning groups; cooperation with planning agencies
Status: in_force

(a) Prior to the time final plans are made for the extension of any water system or sewerage system, the district board shall present preliminary plans for such improvement to the county or municipal governing board for their consideration if such facility is to be located within the jurisdiction of any such county or municipality. The district board shall make every effort to cooperate with the county or municipality in the location and construction of any new proposed facility authorized under this Article.

(b) Any district board created under the authority of this Article is hereby directed, wherever possible, to coordinate its plans for the construction of any new water system or sewerage system improvements with the overall plans for the development of the planning area if such district is located wholly or in part within a county or municipal planning area.

(c) This section shall not apply to renovations, repairs, or regular maintenance of water systems or sewer systems.