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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-3-256 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-3-256
§ 58-3-256. Coverage related to organ transplants
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:

(1) Anatomical gift.--The donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of a transplant.

(2) Disability.--As defined in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12102 et seq., as amended.

(3) Health benefit plan.--As defined in G.S. 58-3-167 .

(4) Insurer.--As defined in G.S. 58-3-167 .

(5) Transplant.--The transplantation or transfusion of a part of a human body into the body of another human for the purpose of treating or curing a medical condition.

(b) No insurer offering a health benefit plan in this State that provides coverage for anatomical gifts, organ transplants, or treatment and services related to anatomical gifts or transplants shall do any of the following:

(1) Deny coverage to an insured solely on the basis of that individual's disability.

(2) Deny to an individual eligibility, or continued eligibility, to enroll or to renew coverage under the terms of a health benefit plan solely for the purpose of avoiding the requirements of this section.

(3) Attempt to induce a health care provider to provide care to an insured in a manner inconsistent with this section by doing either of the following:

a. Penalizing, or otherwise reducing or limiting the reimbursement of, a health care provider.

b. Providing monetary or nonmonetary incentives to a health care provider.

(4) Reduce or limit health benefit plan coverage benefits to an insured for any services related to organ transplantation performed determined to be necessary in consultation with the attending physician and the insured.

(c) When a person or that person's health care provider or representative requests that person's insurer to determine whether a transplant is eligible for benefits under that person's health benefit coverage, the insurer shall, within 10 business days after receipt of the request and medical documentation necessary to determine if there is coverage, inform the requesting person as to whether there is coverage; provided coverage exists at the time of the transplant.

(d) In the case of a health benefit plan maintained pursuant to one or more collective bargaining agreements between employee representatives and one or more employers, any amendment to the health benefit plan made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement solely to conform to this section shall not be treated as a termination of the collective bargaining agreement.

(e) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require an insurer to provide coverage for a medically inappropriate organ transplant.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-339 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-339
§ 130A-339. Limitation on electrical service
Status: in_force

No person shall allow permanent electrical service to a residence, place of business or place of public assembly upon construction, location or relocation until the official electrical inspector with jurisdiction as provided in G.S. 143-143.2 certifies to the electrical supplier that the required improvement permit, construction authorization, and an operation permit or authorization under G.S. 130A-337(c) or the letter of confirmation authorizing wastewater system operation under G.S. 130A-336.1(m) has been obtained. Temporary electrical service necessary for constructing a residence, place of business or place of public assembly can be provided upon compliance with G.S. 130A-338 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-365 — NC Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-365
§ 20-365. Loading or parking on right-of-way
Status: in_force

The object to be transported will not be loaded, unloaded, nor parked, day or night, on highway right-of-way without specific permission from the district or division engineer.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-16-6 — NC Code / Chapter 50 / Section 50-16-6
§ 50-16.6. When alimony, postseparation support, counsel fees not payable
Status: reserved

(a) Repealed by Laws 1995, c. 319, § 4 .

(b) Alimony, postseparation support, and counsel fees may be barred by an express provision of a valid separation agreement, premarital agreement, or marital contract made pursuant to G.S. 52-10(a1) so long as the agreement is performed.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 122A-14 — NC Code / Chapter 122A / Section 122A-14
§ 122A-14. Obligations eligible for investment
Status: in_force

Obligations issued under the provisions of this Chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the State and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies, banking associations, investment companies, executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such obligations are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any State or municipal officer or any agency or political subdivision of the State for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds, notes or obligations of the State is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-345 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-345
§ 1-345. Life tenant recovers from remainderman
Status: in_force

If the plaintiff claims only an estate for life in the land recovered and pays any sum allowed to the defendant for improvements, he or his personal representative may recover at the determination of his estate from the remainderman or reversioner, the value of the said improvements as they then exist, not exceeding the amount as paid by him, and he has a lien therefor on the premises as if they had been mortgaged for the payment thereof, and may keep possession of said premises until it is paid.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-302 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-302
§ 130A-302. Sludge deposits at sanitary landfills
Status: in_force

Sludges generated by the treatment of wastewater discharges which are point sources subject to permits granted under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended ( P.L. 92-500 ), or permits generated under G.S. 143-215.1 by the Commission shall not be deposited in or on a sanitary landfill permitted under this Article unless in a compliance with the rules concerning solid waste adopted under this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-645 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-645
§ 160A-645. Termination
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees may terminate the existence of the Authority at any time when it has no outstanding indebtedness. In the event of such termination, all property and assets of the Authority not otherwise encumbered shall automatically become the property of the State of North Carolina, and the State of North Carolina shall succeed to all rights, obligations, and liabilities of the Authority.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215-87 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-215-87
§ 143-215.87. Oil or Other Hazardous Substances Pollution Protection Fund
Status: in_force

There is hereby established under the control and direction of the Department an Oil or Other Hazardous Substances Pollution Protection Fund which shall be a nonlapsing, revolving fund consisting of any moneys appropriated for such purpose by the General Assembly or that shall be available to it from any other source. The moneys shall be used to defray the expenses of any project or program for the containment, collection, dispersal or removal of oil or other hazardous substances discharged to the land or waters of this State, or discharged into waters outside the territorial limits of the State which affect land and waters or related uses within the State; to assess damages for injury to, destruction of, or loss of use of natural resources; and to develop and implement plans for restoration, rehabilitation, replacement, or acquisition of the equivalent of the natural resources injured by the discharge. In addition to any moneys that shall be appropriated or otherwise made available to it, the fund shall be maintained by fees, charges, or other moneys except for the clear proceeds of civil penalties paid to or recovered by or on behalf of the Department under the provisions of this Part. Any moneys paid to or recovered by or on behalf of the Department as fees, charges, or other payments as damages authorized by this Part except for the clear proceeds of civil penalties shall be paid to the Oil or Other Hazardous Substances Pollution Protection Fund in an amount equal to the sums expended from the fund for the project or activity.

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 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-394-27 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-394-27
§ 143B-394.27. State Youth Council
Status: in_force

There shall be a State Youth Council. It shall be established within one year of July 1, 1975, in accordance with the methods and procedures established by the Youth Advisory Council. The State Youth Council is authorized and empowered to do the following:

(1) To consider problems affecting youth and recommend solutions or approaches to these problems to State and local governments and their officials;

(2) To promote statewide activities for the benefit of youth; and,

(3) To elect the youth representatives to the Youth Advisory Council.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-176 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-176
§ 160A-176. Ordinances effective on city property outside limits
Status: in_force

Any city ordinance may be made effective on and to property and rights-of-way belonging to the city and located outside the corporate limits.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-314 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-314
§ 106-314. Manufacture and use of serum and virus restricted
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to distribute, sell, or use in the State anti-hog-cholera serum unless said anti-hog-cholera serum is produced at the serum plant of the State Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, or produced in a plant which is licensed by the Biological Products Licensing Section, Animal Inspection and Quarantine Division, Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, allowing said plant to do an interstate business.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to distribute, sell, or use in the State of North Carolina, virulent blood from hog-cholera-infected hogs, or virus, unless said virulent blood, or virus, is produced at the serum plant of the State Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services or produced in a plant which is licensed by the Biological Products Licensing Section, Animal Inspection and Quarantine Division, Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, allowing said plant to do an interstate business. No virulent blood from hog-cholera-infected hogs, or virus, shall be distributed, sold or used in the State unless and until permission has been given in writing by the State Veterinarian for such distribution, sale or use. Said permission to be cancelled by the State Veterinarian when necessary.

Any person, firm, or corporation guilty of violating the provisions of this section or failing or refusing to comply with the requirements thereof shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59-42 — NC Code / Chapter 59 / Section 59-42
§ 59-42. Partnership charged with knowledge of or notice to partner
Status: in_force

Notice to any partner of any matter relating to partnership affairs, and the knowledge of the partner acting in the particular matter, acquired while a partner or then present to his mind, and the knowledge of any other partner who reasonably could and should have communicated it to the acting partner, operate as notice to or knowledge of the partnership, except in the case of a fraud on the partnership committed by or with the consent of that partner.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-113-70 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-113-70
§ 105-113.70. Issuance, duration, transfer of license
Status: reserved

(a) Issuance, Qualifications.--Each person who receives an ABC permit shall obtain the corresponding local license, if any, under this Article. All local licenses are issued by the city or county where the establishment for which the license is sought is located. No documentation shall be required of the applicant except as provided in this section. Issuance of a required local license is mandatory if the applicant holds the corresponding ABC permit and provides all of the following: (i) a copy of the most recently completed State application form for an ABC permit exclusive of any attachments, (ii) the ABC permit for visual inspection, and (iii) payment of the prescribed tax. No local license may be issued under this Article until the applicant has received from the ABC Commission the applicable permit for that activity, and no county license may be issued for an establishment located in a city in that county until the applicant has received from the city the applicable license for that activity; provided, the city in that county has not declined to require a license pursuant to G.S. 105-113.71(c) .

(b) Duration.--All licenses issued under this section are annual licenses for the period from May 1 to April 30.

(c) Transfer.--A license may not be transferred from one person to another or from one location to another.

(d) License Exclusive.--A local government may not require a license for activities related to the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages other than the licenses stated in this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 35A-1376 — NC Code / Chapter 35A / Section 35A-1376
§ 35A-1376. Restoration of capacity or ability; suspension of guardianship
Status: in_force

In the event that the authority of the standby guardian becomes effective upon the receipt of a determination of incapacity or debilitation and the petitioner or designator is subsequently restored to capacity or ability to care for the child, the authority of the standby guardian based on that incapacity or debilitation shall be suspended. The attending physician shall provide a copy of the determination of restored capacity or ability to the standby guardian, if the identity of the standby guardian is known to the attending physician. If an order appointing the standby guardian as guardian of the person or general guardian of the minor child or incompetent adult has been entered, the standby guardian shall, and the petitioner or designator may, file a copy of the determination of restored capacity or ability in the office of the clerk who entered the order. A determination of restored capacity or ability shall:

(1) Be made by the attending physician to a reasonable degree of medical certainty;

(2) Be in writing; and

(3) Contain the attending physician's opinion regarding the cause and nature of the parent's or legal guardian's restoration to capacity or ability.

Any order appointing the standby guardian as guardian of the person or general guardian of the minor child or incompetent adult shall remain in full force and effect, and the authority of the standby guardian shall recommence upon the standby guardian's receipt of a subsequent determination of the petitioner's or designator's incapacity, pursuant to G.S. 35A-1373(j) , or upon the standby guardian's receipt of a subsequent determination of debilitation pursuant to G.S. 35A-1373(k) , or upon the receipt of proof of death of the petitioner or designator, or upon the written consent of the petitioner or designator, pursuant to G.S. 35A-1373(l) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 54B-25 — NC Code / Chapter 54B / Section 54B-25
§ 54B-25. Branch offices closed
Status: in_force

The board of a State association may discontinue the operation of a branch office upon giving at least 90 days' prior written notice to the Commissioner of Banks and depositors, the notice to include the date upon which the branch office shall be closed.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 126-8 — NC Code / Chapter 126 / Section 126-8
§ 126-8. Minimum leave granted State employees
Status: in_force

The amount of vacation leave granted to each full-time State employee subject to the provisions of this Chapter shall be determined in accordance with a graduated scale established by the State Human Resources Commission which shall allow the equivalent rate of not less than two weeks' vacation per calendar year, prorated monthly, cumulative to at least 30 days. On December 31 of each year, any State employee who has vacation leave in excess of the allowed accumulation shall have that leave converted to sick leave. Sick leave allowed as needed to such State employees shall be at a rate not less than 10 days for each calendar year, cumulative from year to year. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, no full-time State employee subject to the provisions of Chapter 126, as the same appears in the Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes, on May 23, 1973, shall be allowed less than the equivalent of three weeks' vacation per calendar year, cumulative to at least 30 days.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-36-1 — NC Code / Chapter 95 / Section 95-36-1
§ 95-36.1. Declaration of policy
Status: in_force

It is hereby declared as the public policy of this State that the best interests of the people of the State are served by the prompt settlement of labor disputes; that strikes and lockouts and other forms of industrial strife, regardless of where the merits of the controversy lie, are forces productive ultimately of economic waste; that the interests and rights of the consumers and the people of the State, while not direct parties to such disputes, should always be considered, respected and protected; and, where efforts at amicable settlement have been unsuccessful, that the voluntary arbitration of such disputes will tend to promote permanent industrial peace and the health, welfare, comfort and safety of the people of the State. To carry out such policies, the necessity for the enactment of the provisions of this Article is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-70 — NC Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14-70
§ 14-70. Distinctions between grand and petit larceny abolished; punishment; accessories to larceny
Status: in_force

All distinctions between petit and grand larceny are abolished. Unless otherwise provided by statute, larceny is a Class H felony and is subject to the same rules of criminal procedure and principles of law as to accessories before and after the fact as other felonies.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 108D-50 — NC Code / Chapter 108D / Section 108D-50
§ 108D-50. Defined measures and goals
Status: in_force

The new delivery system and capitated PHP contracts shall be built on defined measures and goals for risk-adjusted health outcomes, quality of care, patient satisfaction, access, and cost. Each component shall be subject to specific accountability measures, including penalties. The Division of Health Benefits may use organizations such as National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI), or any others necessary to develop effective measures for outcomes and quality.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-156-2 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-156-2
§ 115C-156.2. Industry certifications and credentials program
Status: in_force

(a) It is the intent of the State to encourage students to enroll in and successfully complete rigorous coursework and credentialing processes in career and technical education to enable success in the workplace. To attain this goal, to the extent funds are made available for this purpose, students shall be supported to earn State Board of Education approved industry certifications and credentials as follows:

(1) Students enrolled in public schools and in career and technical education courses shall be exempt from paying any fees for one administration of examinations leading to industry certifications and credentials pursuant to rules adopted by the State Board of Education.

(2) Each school year, at such time as agreed to by the Department of Commerce and the State Board of Education, the Department of Commerce shall provide the State Board of Education with a list of those occupations in high need of additional skilled employees. If the occupations identified in such list are not substantially the same as those occupations identified in the list from the prior year, reasonable notice of such changes shall be provided to local school administrative units.

(3) Local school administrative units shall consult with their local industries, employers, business advisory councils, and workforce development boards to identify industry certification and credentials that the local school administrative unit may offer to best meet State and local workforce needs.

(b) Beginning in 2019, the State Board of Education shall report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by November 15 of each year on the following information:

(1) The number of students in career and technical education courses who earned (i) community college credit and (ii) related industry certifications and credentials.

(2) Implementation of high school diploma endorsements, including adding (i) college, (ii) career, and (iii) college and career endorsements to high school diplomas, through evaluation of at least the following data:

a. Impact on the rates of high school graduation, college acceptance and remediation, and post-high school employment.

b. Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the number of students who had to retake a nationally norm-referenced college admissions test to meet the reading benchmark score required by G.S. 115C-12(40) to receive a high school diploma endorsement and the number of students who were not awarded a high school diploma endorsement solely because of the inability to meet the benchmark score for reading required by G.S. 115C-12(40) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-19-17 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-19-17
§ 58-19-17. Foreign or alien insurer's report of change of control
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this section, “controlling capital stock” means enough of an insurer's shares of the issued and outstanding stock, as defined in G.S. 58-19-5(2) , to give its owner the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management or policies of the insurer.

(b) If there is a change in the controlling capital stock or a change of twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the assets of a foreign or alien insurer, the insurer shall report the change in writing to the Commissioner within 30 days after the effective date of the change. The report shall be in a form prescribed by the Commissioner and shall contain the name and address of the new owners of the controlling stock or assets, the nature and value of the new assets, and other relevant information that the Commissioner requires.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-42 — NC Code / Chapter 76 / Section 76-42
§ 76-42. Lumbermen to remove obstructions in Albemarle Sound
Status: in_force

If any lumberman shall fail to remove all obstructions placed by him in the waters of Albemarle Sound and its tributaries, as soon as practicable, after they have ceased to use them for the purpose for which they were placed in said waters, from all places where the water is not less than two feet deep, and also from all landing places on both sides, for the space of 60 feet from the shore outward, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor, and only fined not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00), at the discretion of the court.