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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 108A-1 — NC Code / Chapter 108A / Section 108A-1
§ 108A-1. Creation
Status: in_force

Every county shall have a governing board for social services, which may be a county board of social services created pursuant to this Part, a consolidated human services board created pursuant to G.S. 153A-77(b) , a board of county commissioners that has assumed the powers and duties of a county board of social services or a consolidated human services board, or a regional board of social services created pursuant to G.S. 108A-15.8 . The governing board shall establish policies for the programs established by this Chapter in conformity with the rules and regulations of the Social Services Commission and under the supervision of the Department of Health and Human Services. Provided, however, policies for the program of medical assistance shall be established in conformity with the rules and regulations of the Department of Health and Human Services.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 54-125 — NC Code / Chapter 54 / Section 54-125
§ 54-125. Amendment of articles
Status: in_force

The association may amend its articles of incorporation by a majority vote of its shareholders at any regular shareholders' meeting, or any special shareholders' meeting called for that purpose, on 10 days' notice to the shareholders. The power to amend shall include the power to increase or diminish the amount of capital stock and the number of shares: Provided, the amount of the capital stock shall not be diminished below the amount of the paid-up capital at the time the amendment is adopted. Within 30 days after the adoption of an amendment to its articles of incorporation, an association shall cause a copy of such amendment adopted to be recorded in the office of the Secretary of State and of the register of deeds of the county where the principal place of business is located.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 54C-27 — NC Code / Chapter 54C / Section 54C-27
§ 54C-27. Loan production office
Status: in_force

A State savings bank may open or close a loan production office with the prior written approval of the Commissioner of Banks. The Commissioner of Banks may request, and the savings bank shall provide, any information that the Commissioner of Banks determines is necessary to evaluate the request.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-143-2 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-143-2
§ 90-143.2. Certification of diagnostic imaging technicians
Status: in_force

(a) The North Carolina State Board of Chiropractic Examiners shall certify the competence of any person employed by a licensed chiropractor practicing in the State if the employee's duties include the production of diagnostic images, whether by X ray or other imaging technology. Applicants for certification must demonstrate proficiency in the following subjects:

(1) Physics and equipment of radiographic imaging;

(2) Principles of radiographic exposure;

(3) Radiographic protection;

(4) Anatomy and physiology;

(5) Radiographic positioning and procedure.

The North Carolina State Board of Chiropractic Examiners may adopt rules pertaining to initial educational requirements, examination of applicants, and continuing education requirements as are reasonably required to enforce this provision.

(b) Any person seeking to renew a certification of competence previously issued by the Board shall pay to the secretary of the Board a fee as prescribed and set by the Board which fee shall not be more than fifty dollars ($50.00).
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-85-8 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-85-8
§ 90-85.8. Organization
Status: in_force

The Board shall elect from its members a president, vice-president, and other officers as it deems necessary. The officers shall serve one-year terms and until their successors have been elected and qualified.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-08 — NC Code / Chapter 55 / Section 55-14-08
§ 55-14-08. Enforcement of claims
Status: in_force

(a) A claim under G.S. 55-14-06 or G.S. 55-14-07 may be enforced:

(1) Against the dissolved corporation, to the extent of its undistributed assets, including coverage under any applicable insurance policy, or

(2) Except as provided in G.S. 55-14-09(d) , if the assets have been distributed in liquidation, against a shareholder of the dissolved corporation to the extent of the shareholder's pro rata share of the claim or the corporate assets distributed to the shareholder in liquidation, whichever is less, but a shareholder's total liability for all claims under this section may not exceed the total amount of assets distributed to the shareholder.

(b) Nothing in G.S. 55-14-06 or G.S. 55-14-07 shall extend any applicable period of limitation.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 89E-1 — NC Code / Chapter 89E / Section 89E-1
§ 89E-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This Chapter shall be known as the North Carolina Geologists Licensing Act.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-440 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-440
§ 115C-440. Accounting system
Status: in_force

(a) System Required.--Each local school administrative unit shall establish and maintain an accounting system designed to show in detail its assets, liabilities, equities, revenues, and expenditures. The system shall also be designed to show appropriations and estimated revenues as established in the budget resolution as originally adopted and subsequently amended.

(b) Basis of Accounting.--Local school administrative units shall use the modified accrual basis of accounting in recording transactions.

(c) Encumbrance Systems.--Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, no local school administrative unit is required to record or show encumbrances in its accounting system. The Local Government Commission, in consultation with the State Board of Education, shall establish regulations, based on total membership of the local school administrative unit or some other appropriate criterion, setting forth which units are required to maintain an accounting system that records and shows the encumbrances outstanding against each category of expenditure appropriated in the budget resolution. Any other local school administrative unit may record and show encumbrances in its accounting system.

(d) Commission Regulations.--The Local Government Commission, in consultation with the State Board of Education, may prescribe rules and regulations having the force of law as to:

(1) Features of accounting systems to be maintained by local school administrative units.

(2) Bases of accounting, including identifying in detail the characteristics of a modified accrual basis and identifying what revenues are susceptible to accrual.

(3) Definitions of terms not clearly defined in this Article.

These rules and regulations may be varied according to the size of the local school administrative unit, or according to any other criteria reasonably related to the purpose or complexity of the financial operations involved.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59-1004 — NC Code / Chapter 59 / Section 59-1004
§ 59-1004. Expenses
Status: in_force

(a) If a derivative action is successful, in whole or in part, or if anything is received by the plaintiff as a result of a judgment, compromise, or settlement of any action or claim, the court may award the plaintiff reasonable expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, and shall direct him to remit to the limited partnership the remainder of those proceeds received by him.

(b) In any such action, the court, upon final judgment and a finding that the action was brought without reasonable cause, may require the plaintiff or plaintiffs to pay to the defendant or defendants the reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees, incurred by them in defense of the action.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-235 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-235
§ 90-235. Definition
Status: in_force

Within the meaning of the provisions of this Article, the term “dispensing optician” defines one who prepares and dispenses lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses and/or appurtenances thereto to the intended wearers thereof on written prescriptions from physicians or optometrists duly licensed to practice their professions, and in accordance with such prescriptions interprets, measures, adapts, fits and adjusts such lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses and/or appurtenances thereto to the human face for the aid or correction of visual or ocular anomalies of the human eye. The services and appliances related to ophthalmic dispensing shall be dispensed, furnished or supplied to the intended wearer or user thereof only upon prescription issued by a physician or an optometrist; but duplications, replacements, reproductions or repetitions may be done without prescription, in which event any such act shall be construed to be ophthalmic dispensing, the same as if performed on the basis of a written prescription.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-129-97 — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-129-97
§ 105-129.97. Substantiation
Status: in_force

To claim a credit allowed by this Article, the taxpayer must provide any information required by the Secretary. Each taxpayer claiming a credit under this Article must maintain and make available for inspection by the Secretary any records the Secretary considers necessary to determine and verify the amount of the credit to which the taxpayer is entitled. The burden of proving eligibility for a credit and the amount of the credit rests upon the taxpayer, and no credit may be allowed to a taxpayer that fails to maintain adequate records or to make them available for inspection.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-69-15 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-69-15
§ 58-69-15. Issuance or refusal of license; notice of hearing on refusal; renewal
Status: in_force

Within 60 days after an application for license is filed, the Commissioner shall issue a license to the applicant unless he shall find:

(1) That the applicant has not met all of the requirements of this Article, or

(2) That the applicant does not have sufficient financial responsibility to engage in business as a motor club in this State, or

(3) That the applicant has failed to make a reasonable showing that its managers, officers, directors and agents are persons of reliability and integrity. If any such finding is made, the Commissioner shall notify the applicant as soon as practicable of the reason for his refusal to issue the license, and inform the applicant of its right to a hearing on the matters as provided in G.S. 58-69-25 . All licenses issued hereunder, and all renewals thereof, shall expire on June 30 following such issuance or renewal. Renewal of all licenses not previously revoked or suspended shall be automatic upon timely payment by the licensee of the annual fee.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-24-60 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-24-60
§ 58-24-60. Reinsurance
Status: in_force

(a) A domestic society may, by a reinsurance agreement, cede any individual risk or risks in whole or in part to an insurer (other than another fraternal benefit society) having the power to make such reinsurance and authorized to do business in this State, or if not so authorized, one which is approved by the Commissioner, but no such society may reinsure substantially all of its insurance in force without the written permission of the Commissioner. It may take credit for the reserves on such ceded risks to the extent reinsured, but no credit shall be allowed as an admitted asset or as a deduction from liability, to a ceding society for reinsurance made, ceded, renewed, or otherwise becoming effective after January 1, 1988, unless the reinsurance is payable by the assuming insurer on the basis of the liability of the ceding society under the contract or contracts reinsured without diminution because of the insolvency of the ceding society.

(b) Notwithstanding the limitation in subsection (a), a society may reinsure the risks of another society in a consolidation or merger approved by the Commissioner under G.S. 58-24-65 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 159C-1 — NC Code / Chapter 159C / Section 159C-1
§ 159C-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This Chapter may be referred to as the “Industrial and Pollution Control Facilities Financing Act.”
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47H-4 — NC Code / Chapter 47H / Section 47H-4
§ 47H-4. Notice of default and intent to forfeit
Status: in_force

(a) The notice of default and intent to forfeit shall contain all of the following:

(1) The name, address, and telephone number of the seller and the seller's agent or attorney giving the notice, if any.

(2) A description of the contract, including the names of the original parties to the contract for deed.

(3) The physical address of the property.

(4) A description of each default under the contract on which the notice is based.

(5) A statement that the contract will be forfeited if all defaults are not cured by a date stated in the notice which is not less than 30 days after the notice of default and intent to forfeit is served or any longer period specified in the contract or other agreement with the seller.

(6) An itemized statement of, or to the extent not known at the time the notice of default and intent to forfeit is given or recorded, a reasonable estimate of, all payments of money in default, and, for defaults not involving the failure to pay money, a statement of the action required to cure the default.

(7) Any additional information required by the contract for deed or other agreement with the seller.

(b) Any notice of default and intent to forfeit must be delivered to the purchaser by hand or by any manner authorized in G.S. 1A-1, Rule 4 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1237 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-1237
§ 15A-1237. Verdict
Status: in_force

(a) The verdict must be in writing, signed by the foreman, and made a part of the record of the case.

(b) The verdict must be unanimous, and must be returned by the jury in open court.

(c) If the jurors find the defendant not guilty on the ground that he was insane at the time of the commission of the offense charged, their verdict must so state.

(d) If there are two or more defendants, the jury must return a separate verdict with respect to each defendant. If the jury agrees upon a verdict for one defendant but not another, it must return that verdict upon which it agrees.

(e) If there are two or more offenses for which the jury could return a verdict, it may return a verdict with respect to any offense, including a lesser included offense on which the judge charged, as to which it agrees.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55A-8-50 — NC Code / Chapter 55A / Section 55A-8-50
§ 55A-8-50. Policy statement and definitions
Status: in_force

(a) It is the public policy of this State to enable corporations organized under this Chapter to attract and maintain responsible, qualified directors, officers, employees, and agents, and, to that end, to permit corporations organized under this Chapter to allocate the risk of personal liability of directors, officers, employees, and agents through indemnification and insurance as authorized in this Part.

(b) Definitions in this Part:

(1) “Corporation” includes any domestic or foreign corporation absorbed in a merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had the obligation or power to indemnify its directors, officers, employees, or agents, so that a person who would have been entitled to receive or request indemnification from such corporation if its separate existence had continued shall stand in the same position under this Part with respect to the surviving corporation.

(2) “Director” means an individual who is or was a director of a corporation or an individual who, while a director of a corporation, is or was serving at the corporation's request as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another foreign or domestic business or nonprofit corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise. A director is considered to be serving an employee benefit plan at the corporation's request if the director's duties to the corporation also impose duties on, or otherwise involve services by, the director to the plan or to participants in or beneficiaries of the plan. “Director” includes, unless the context requires otherwise, the estate or personal representative of a director.

(3) “Expenses” means expenses of every kind incurred in defending a proceeding, including counsel fees.

(4) “Liability” means the obligation to pay a judgment, settlement, penalty, fine (including an excise tax assessed with respect to an employee benefit plan), or reasonable expenses actually incurred with respect to a proceeding.

(5) “Officer,” “employee,” or “agent” includes, unless the context requires otherwise, the estate or personal representative of a person who acted in that capacity.

(6) “Official capacity” means: (i) when used with respect to a director, the office of director in a corporation; and (ii) when used with respect to an individual other than a director, as contemplated in G.S. 55A-8-56 , the office in a corporation held by the officer or the employment or agency relationship undertaken by the employee or agent on behalf of the corporation. “Official capacity” does not include service for any other foreign or domestic business or nonprofit corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise.

(7) “Party” includes an individual who was, is, or is threatened to be made a named defendant or respondent in a proceeding.

(8) “Proceeding” means any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit, or proceeding whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative and whether formal or informal.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47-61 — NC Code / Chapter 47 / Section 47-61
§ 47-61. Order of registration by interested clerk
Status: in_force

The probate and registration of all deeds, mortgages and other instruments requiring registration prior to the fifteenth day of January, 1935, to which the clerks of the superior courts are parties, or in which they have an interest, and which have been registered on the order of such clerks or their deputies, or by assistant clerks of the superior courts, on proof of acknowledgment taken before such clerks, assistant clerks, deputy clerks, justices of the peace or notaries public, be, and the same are declared valid.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 156-106 — NC Code / Chapter 156 / Section 156-106
§ 156-106. Assessment not collectible out of other property of delinquent
Status: in_force

Only the land assessed in the drainage proceeding shall be liable for the drainage tax or assessment, and no other property of the landowner shall or may be sold for said drainage tax or assessment: Provided, that this section shall not apply to any drainage bond sold and delivered prior to March 7, 1927, or to any litigation pending at that time.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-755-1 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-755-1
§ 106-755.1. North Carolina Wine and Grape Growers Council--Creation; powers and duties
Status: in_force

There is created the North Carolina Wine and Grape Growers Council of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The North Carolina Wine and Grape Growers Council shall have the following powers and duties:

(1) To identify and implement methods for improving North Carolina's rank as a wine-producing State;

(2) To assure orderly growth and development of North Carolina's grape and wine industry;

(3) To achieve public awareness of the quality of North Carolina grapes and wine;

(4) To coordinate the interaction of North Carolina's grape and wine industry with other segments of the State's economy such as tourism, retail trade, and horticulture;

(5) To conduct methods of quality assurance of North Carolina's grape and wine industry to create a sound foundation for further growth;

(6) To assist in the coordination of the activities of the various State agencies and other organizations contributing to the development of the grape and wine industry;

(7) To receive and disburse funds;

(8) To enter into contracts for the purpose of developing new or improved markets or marketing methods for wine and grape products;

(9) To contract for research services to improve viticultural and enological practices in North Carolina;

(10) To enter into agreements with any local, state, or national organizations or agency engaged in education for the purpose of disseminating information on wine or other viticultural projects;

(11) To enter into contracts with commercial entities for the purpose of developing marketing, advertising, and other promotional programs designed to promote the orderly growth of the North Carolina grape and wine industry;

(12) To acquire any licenses or permits necessary for performance of the duties of the Council; and

(13) To develop a State Viticulture Plan that identifies problems and constraints of the viticultural industry, proposes solutions to those problems and delineates planning mechanisms for the orderly growth of the industry.

(14) By September 1 of each year, to report to the chairs of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Natural, and Economic Resources, the chairs of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources, the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources, and the Fiscal Research Division on the activities of the Council, the status of the wine and grape industry in North Carolina and the United States, progress on the development and implementation of the State Viticulture Plan, and any contracts or agreements entered into by the Council for research, education, or marketing.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 142-29-5 — NC Code / Chapter 142 / Section 142-29-5
§ 142-29.5. Authorization of refunding obligations
Status: in_force

By and with the consent of the Council of State, the State Treasurer is authorized to issue and sell, from time to time, refunding obligations for the purpose of refunding outstanding obligations as and to the extent authorized by this Article. The principal amount of any such refunding obligations shall not exceed the principal amount of outstanding obligations to be refunded unless (i) the refunding results in an aggregate debt service savings and (ii) the increase in the principal amount issued does not create cash-in-hand available for new capital improvements.

Refunding obligations issued pursuant to the provisions of this Article shall not be subject to limitations imposed by any other law including, without limitation, the other Articles of this Chapter.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-1-308 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-1-308
§ 25-1-308. Performance or acceptance under reservation of rights
Status: reserved

(a) A party that with explicit reservation of rights performs or promises performance or assents to performance in a manner demanded or offered by the other party does not thereby prejudice the rights reserved. Such words as “without prejudice,” “under protest,” or the like are sufficient.

(b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to an accord and satisfaction.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47-102 — NC Code / Chapter 47 / Section 47-102
§ 47-102. Absence of notarial seal
Status: in_force

Any deed executed prior to October 1, 2005, and duly acknowledged before a North Carolina notary public, and the probate recites “witness my hand and notarial seal,” or words of similar import, and no seal was affixed to the said deed, shall be ordered registered by the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the land lies, upon presentation to him: Provided, the probate is otherwise in due form.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-156 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-156
§ 143B-156. Social Services Commission--officers
Status: in_force

The Commission for Social Services shall have a chairman and a vice-chairman. The chairman shall be designated by the Governor from among the members of the Commission to serve as chairman at his pleasure. The vice-chairman shall be elected by and from the members of the Commission and shall serve for a term of two years or until the expiration of his regularly appointed term.