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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-298-1 — NC Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-298-1
§ 20-298.1. Provision of certain products and services to those covered under the Military Lending Act
Status: in_force

A motor vehicle dealer that does not market or extend to a covered borrower a loan or credit transaction covered by Section 987 of Title 10 of the United States Code , or any subsequent amendments thereto, and Part 232 (commencing with Section 232.1 ) of Subchapter M of Chapter I of Subtitle A of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations , or any subsequent amendments thereto, shall not be in violation of G.S. 127B-11 or otherwise under the law with respect to all transactions entered into on or after October 3, 2016, regardless of whether the motor vehicle dealer markets or extends the loan or credit transaction to other persons who are not covered borrowers. For purposes of this section, “covered borrower” has the same meaning as provided in Part 232 (commencing with Section 232.1 ) of Subchapter M of Chapter I of Subtitle A of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations and any subsequent amendments thereto.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 35A-1272 — NC Code / Chapter 35A / Section 35A-1272
§ 35A-1272. Powers, duties, liabilities, compensation
Status: in_force

The powers and duties of said public guardian shall be the same as other guardians, and he shall be subject to the same liabilities as other guardians under the existing laws, and shall receive the same compensation as other guardians.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 127B-32 — NC Code / Chapter 127B / Section 127B-32
§ 127B-32. Eviction; penalty or fee; extension of lease
Status: in_force

(a) If a servicemember who is a member of the North Carolina National Guard, or who is a member of the National Guard of another state who resides in this State, has a lease agreement on the servicemember's residence and the lease agreement expires while the servicemember is engaged, for any period of time, in State active duty or service under an order of the governor of another state that is similar to State active duty, the servicemember is entitled to extend the lease agreement to terminate 10 days after the servicemember's State active duty or service terminates upon providing written or electronic notice to the landlord or the landlord's representative. The terms of the lease agreement during this period of extension shall be the same terms that applied during the month before the expiration.

(b) This section applies only to servicemembers who are current on all rents and security deposits required and in good standing regarding the lease agreement. Nothing in this section relieves the servicemember of the obligation to pay rent, fees, dues, or other monies required in the lease agreement on time and in full.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-690 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-690
§ 90-690. Renewal of licenses
Status: reserved

(a) All licenses to practice perfusion shall expire two years after the date they were issued. The Committee shall send a notice of expiration to each licensee at his or her last known address at least 30 days prior to the expiration of his or her license. All applications for renewal of unexpired licenses shall be filed with the Committee and accompanied by proof satisfactory to the Committee that the applicant has completed the continuing education requirements established by the Committee and the renewal fee as required by G.S. 90-689 .

(b) An application for renewal of a license that has been expired for less than three years shall be accompanied by proof satisfactory to the Committee that the applicant has current certification as defined by G.S. 90-682(1) , has satisfied the continuing education requirements established by the Committee and has paid the renewal and late fees required by G.S. 90-689 . A license that has been expired for more than three years shall not be renewed, but the applicant may apply for a new license by complying with the current requirements for licensure under this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 120-6 — NC Code / Chapter 120 / Section 120-6
§ 120-6. Members to convene at appointed time and place
Status: in_force

Every person elected to represent any county or district in the General Assembly shall appear at such time and place as may be appointed for the meeting thereof, on the first day, and attend to the public business as occasion shall require.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-140 — NC Code / Chapter 95 / Section 95-140
§ 95-140. Procedures to counteract imminent dangers
Status: in_force

(a) The superior courts of this State shall have jurisdiction, upon petition of the Commissioner, to restrain any conditions or practices in any place of employment which are such that a danger exists, which could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious physical harm immediately or before the imminence of such danger can be eliminated through the enforcement procedures otherwise provided by this Article. Any order issued under this section may require such steps to be taken as may be necessary to avoid, correct, or remove such imminent danger and prohibit the employment or presence of any individual in locations or under conditions where such imminent danger exists, except those individuals whose presence is necessary to avoid, correct or remove such imminent danger or to maintain the capacity of a continuous process operation to assume normal operations without a complete cessation of operations, or where a cessation of operations is necessary to permit such to be accomplished in a safe and orderly manner.

(b) Upon the filing of any such petition the superior court shall, without the necessity of showing an adequate remedy at law, have jurisdiction to grant injunctive relief or temporary restraining order pending the outcome of an enforcement proceeding pursuant to this Article. The proceeding shall be as provided under the statutes and Rules of Civil Procedure 1 of this State except that no temporary restraining order issued without notice shall be effective for a period longer than five days.

(c) Whenever and as soon as an inspector concludes that conditions or practices described in this section exist in any place of employment, he shall inform the affected employees and employers of the danger and that he is recommending to the Commissioner that relief be sought. If the Commissioner arbitrarily or capriciously fails to seek relief under this section, any employee who may be injured by reason of such failure, or the representative of such employee, may bring an action against the Commissioner in the superior court of the district in which the imminent danger is alleged to exist or the employer has its principal office or place of business, for a writ of mandamus to compel the Commissioner to seek such an order for such relief as may be appropriate.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-67-60 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-67-60
§ 58-67-60. Investments
Status: in_force

With the exception of investments made in accordance with G.S. 58-67-35(a)(1) and (2) and G.S. 58-67-35(b) , the funds of a health maintenance organization shall be invested or maintained only in securities, other investments, or other assets permitted by the laws of this State for the investment of assets constituting the legal reserves of life insurance companies or such other securities or investments as the Commissioner may permit.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59-501 — NC Code / Chapter 59 / Section 59-501
§ 59-501. Form of contribution
Status: in_force

The contribution of a partner may be in cash, property, or services rendered, or a promissory note or other obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 164-7 — NC Code / Chapter 164 / Section 164-7
§ 164-7. Statutes not repealed
Status: reserved

The General Statutes of North Carolina shall not have the effect of repealing statutes or provisions of statutes which affect only a particular locality, public-local or private statutes, statutes exempting pending litigation from operation of statutes, statutes relating to the boundary of the State or of any county, acts ceding or relating to the ceding of lands of the State to the federal government, statutes relating to the Cherokee lands, statutes relating to the construction or interpretation of statutes, statutes by virtue of which bonds have been issued and are outstanding on the effective date of the General Statutes, validating acts or curative statutes, or acts granting pensions to named individuals if such statutes were in force on the effective date of the General Statutes.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 131D-10-4 — NC Code / Chapter 131D / Section 131D-10-4
§ 131D-10.4. Exemptions
Status: in_force

This Article does not apply to any of the following:

(1) Any residential child-care facility chartered by the laws of this State (or operating under charters of other states which have complied with the corporation laws of this State) which has a plant and assets worth sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) or more and which is owned or operated by a religious denomination or fraternal order and which was in operation before July 1, 1977.

(2) State institutions for children with serious emotional disturbances, delinquent children, or individuals with mental illnesses, intellectual or other developmental disabilities, or substance use disorders.

(3) Secure detention facilities as specified in Part 3 of Article 13 of Chapter 143B of the General Statutes.

(4) Licensable facilities subject to the rules of the Commission for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services as specified in Article 2 of Chapter 122C of the General Statutes.

(5) Persons authorized by statute to receive and place children for foster care and adoption in accordance with G.S. 108A-14 .

(6) Primarily educational institutions as defined in G.S. 131D-10.2(11) .

(7) Individuals who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the child.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 162A-89 — NC Code / Chapter 162A / Section 162A-89
§ 162A-89. Governing body of district; powers
Status: in_force

(a) The board of commissioners of the county in which a county water and sewer district is created is the governing body of the district.

(b) The governing board of a consolidated city-county in which a water and sewer district is created is the governing body of the district.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-213 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-213
§ 160A-213. Motor vehicle taxes
Status: in_force

(a) A city may impose an annual license tax on motor vehicles as permitted by G.S. 20-97 .

(b) By ordinance a city may provide that the annual license tax imposed under subsection (a) above may be waived for individuals serving as firemen or as members of emergency medical teams. A city may also provide such individuals with tags or decals with distinctive coloring, or other means, to identify the individual as a fireman or a member of an emergency medical team.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 69-25-15 — NC Code / Chapter 69 / Section 69-25-15
§ 69-25.15. When district or portion thereof annexed by municipality furnishing fire protection
Status: in_force

(a) When the whole or any portion of a fire protection district has been annexed by a municipality furnishing fire protection to its citizens, then such fire protection district or the portion thereof so annexed shall immediately thereupon cease to be a fire protection district or a portion of a fire protection district; and such district or portion thereof so annexed shall no longer be subject to G.S. 69-25.4 authorizing the board of county commissioners to levy and collect a tax in such district for the purpose of furnishing fire protection therein.

(b) Nothing herein shall be deemed to prevent the board of county commissioners from levying and collecting taxes for fire protection in the remaining portion of a fire protection district not annexed by a municipality, as aforesaid.

(c) When all or part of a fire protection district is annexed, and the effective date of the annexation is a date other than a date in the month of June, the amount of the fire protection district tax levied on property in the district for the fiscal year in which municipal taxes are prorated under G.S. 160A-58.10 shall be multiplied by the following fraction: the denominator shall be 12 and the numerator shall be the number of full calendar months remaining in the fiscal year following the day on which the annexation becomes effective. For each owner, the product of the multiplication is the prorated fire protection payment. The finance officer of the city shall obtain from the assessor or tax collector of the county where the annexed territory was located a list of the owners of property on which fire protection district taxes were levied in the territory being annexed, and the city shall, no later than 90 days after the effective date of the annexation, pay the amount of the prorated fire protection district payment to the owners of that property. Such payments shall come from any funds not otherwise restricted by law.

(d) Whenever a city is required to make fire protection district tax payments by subsection (c) of this section, and the city has paid or has contracted to pay to a rural fire department funds under G.S. 160A-58.57 , the county shall pay to the city from funds of the rural fire protection district an amount equal to the amount paid by the city (or to be paid by the city) to a rural fire department under G.S. 160A-58.57 on account of annexation of territory in the rural fire protection district for the number of months in that fiscal year used in calculating the numerator under subsection (c) of this section; provided that the required payments by the county to the city shall not exceed the total of fire protection district payments made to taxpayers in the district on account of that annexation.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 52C-4-401 — NC Code / Chapter 52C / Section 52C-4-401
§ 52C-4-401. Establishment of support order
Status: in_force

(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this Chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this State with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:

(1) The individual seeking the order resides outside this State; or

(2) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this State.

(b) The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal determines that such an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is any of the following:

(1) A presumed father of the child.

(2) Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated.

(3) Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing.

(4) An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing.

(5) Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child.

(6) An acknowledged father as provided by Chapter 110 of the General Statutes .

(7) The mother of the child.

(8) An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.

(c) Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes a duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may issue other orders pursuant to G.S. 52C-3-305 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-551 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-551
§ 160A-551. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used or referred to in this Article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(1) The term “authority” shall mean a public body and a body corporate and politic organized in accordance with this Article for the purposes, with the powers and subject to the restrictions hereinafter set forth;

(2) The term “bonds” shall mean bonds authorized by this Article;

(3) The term “city” shall mean the city that is, or is about to be, included in the territorial boundaries of an authority when created hereunder;

(4) The term “city clerk” shall mean the clerk of the city or the officer thereof charged with the duties customarily imposed on the clerk;

(5) The term “city council” shall mean the legislative body, council, board of commissioners, or other body charged with governing the city;

(6) The term “commissioner” shall mean one of the members of an authority, appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Article;

(7) The term “parking project” shall mean any area or place operated or to be operated by the authority for the parking or storing of motor and other vehicles, open to public use for a fee, and shall without limiting the foregoing, include all real and personal property, driveways, roads, approaches, structures, garages, meters, mechanical equipment, and all appurtenances and facilities either on, above or under the ground which are used or usable in connection with such parking or storing of such vehicles, including on-street parking meters if so provided by the governing authority;

(8) The term “real property” shall mean lands, structures, franchises, and interest in lands, and any and all things usually included within the said term, and includes not only fees simple absolute but also any and all lesser interests, such as easements, rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses, and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms of years, and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise, and also claims for damage to real estate.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-15-75 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-15-75
§ 58-15-75. Reserves
Status: in_force

Each reciprocal shall maintain the same unearned premium and loss or claim reserves required for stock and mutual companies writing the same kinds of insurance.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-295 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-295
§ 15A-295. Reports concerning intercepted wire, oral, or electronic communications
Status: in_force

In January of each year, the Attorney General of this State must report to the Administrative Office of the United States Court the information required to be filed by section 2519 of Title 18 of the United States Code , as heretofore or hereafter amended, and file a copy of the report with the Administrative Office of the Courts of North Carolina.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-58-285 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-58-285
§ 58-58-285. Other law enforcement or regulatory authority
Status: in_force

This Part does not:

(1) Preempt the authority or relieve the duty of other law enforcement or regulatory agencies to investigate, examine, and prosecute suspected violations of law.

(2) Prevent or prohibit a person from disclosing voluntarily information concerning viatical settlement fraud to a law enforcement or regulatory agency other than the Commissioner.

(3) Limit the powers granted elsewhere by the laws of this State to the Commissioner to investigate and examine possible violations of law and to take appropriate action against wrongdoers.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-131 — NC Code / Chapter 97 / Section 97-131
§ 97-131. Creation
Status: in_force

(a) There is created a nonprofit unincorporated legal entity to be known as the North Carolina Self-Insurance Security Association. The Association is to provide mechanisms for the payment of covered claims against member self-insurers, to avoid excessive delay in payment of covered claims, to avoid financial loss to claimants because of the insolvency of a member self-insurer, to assist the Commissioner in the detection of self-insurer insolvencies, to fund the Association Aggregate Security System, and to capitalize the Fund to ensure the availability of financial resources to pay covered claims and to fund the activities of the Association.

(b) All individual self-insurers and group self-insurers shall be and remain members of the Association as a condition of being licensed to self-insure in this State. The Association shall perform its functions under a Plan of Operation established or amended, or both, by the Board and shall exercise its powers through the Board.

(1) An individual self-insurer or a group self-insurer shall be deemed to be a member of the Association for purposes of another member's insolvency, as defined in G.S. 97-135 , when:

a. The individual self-insurer or group self-insurer is a member of the Association when an insolvency occurs, or

b. The individual self-insurer or group self-insurer has been a member of the Association at some point in time during the 12-month period immediately preceding the insolvency in question.

(2) An individual self-insurer or a group self-insurer shall be deemed to be a member of the Association for purposes of its own insolvency if it is a member when the compensable injury occurs.

(3) In determining the membership of the Association for the purposes of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection for any date after the effective date of this Article, no individual self-insurer or group self-insurer may be deemed to be a member of the Association on any date after the effective date of this Article, unless that employer is on that date licensed as an individual self-insurer by the Commissioner under Article 5 of this Chapter or a group of employers is at that time licensed as a group self-insurer by the Commissioner under Article 47 of Chapter 58 of the General Statutes .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 159G-26 — NC Code / Chapter 159G / Section 159G-26
§ 159G-26. Annual reports on Water Infrastructure Fund
Status: in_force

(a) Requirement.--The Department shall publish a report each year on the accounts in the Water Infrastructure Fund that are administered by the Division of Water Infrastructure. The report shall be published by November 1 of each year and cover the preceding fiscal year. The Department shall make the report available to the public and shall give a copy of the report to the Environmental Review Commission, the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources, and the Fiscal Research Division with the report required by G.S. 159G-72 as a single report.

(b) Content.--The report required by this section must contain the following information concerning the accounts of the Water Infrastructure Fund:

(1) The beginning and ending balance of the account for the fiscal year.

(2) The amount of revenue credited to the account during the fiscal year, by source.

(3) The total amount of loans and grants awarded from the account, by type, and the amount of any expenditure for emergency corrective action made from the account.

(4) For each loan or grant awarded, the recipient of the award, the amount of the award, the amount of the award that was disbursed, and the amount of the award remaining to be disbursed in a subsequent fiscal year.

(5) The amount disbursed for loans and grants awarded but not disbursed in a prior fiscal year and the amount remaining to be disbursed in a subsequent fiscal year.

(6) An assessment of the expected impact on water quality and water supply of the projects for which the loans and grants were awarded.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59-47 — NC Code / Chapter 59 / Section 59-47
§ 59-47. Liability of incoming partner
Status: in_force

A person admitted as a partner into an existing partnership is liable for all the obligations of the partnership arising before his admission as though he had been a partner when such obligations were incurred, except that this liability shall be satisfied only out of partnership property.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-110-14 — NC Code / Chapter 95 / Section 95-110-14
§ 95-110.14. Confidentiality of trade secrets
Status: in_force

All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the Commissioner or his agents or representatives in connection with any inspection or proceeding under this Article or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder which contains or might reveal a trade secret shall be considered confidential, except as to carrying out this Article and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, or when it is relevant in any proceeding under the same. In any such proceeding the Commissioner or the court shall issue such orders as may be appropriate to protect the confidentiality of trade secrets.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-41-1 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-41-1
§ 58-41-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This Article is known and may be cited as the Insurance Regulatory Reform Act.