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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160D-201 — NC Code / Chapter 160D / Section 160D-201
§ 160D-201. Planning and development regulation jurisdiction
Status: in_force

(a) Cities.--All of the powers granted by this Chapter may be exercised by any city within its corporate limits and within any extraterritorial area established pursuant to G.S. 160D-202 .

(b) Counties.--All of the powers granted by this Chapter may be exercised by any county throughout the county except in areas subject to municipal planning and development regulation jurisdiction.

(c) Partial Jurisdiction Regulation in Cities and Counties.--If a city elects to adopt zoning or subdivision regulations, each must be applied to the city's entire planning and development regulation jurisdiction. If a county elects to adopt zoning or subdivision regulations, each may be applied to all or part of the county's planning and development regulation jurisdiction. A local government's planning and development regulation jurisdiction does not include an area in which it has ceded jurisdiction pursuant to an agreement under G.S. 160D-203 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 63-15 — NC Code / Chapter 63 / Section 63-15
§ 63-15. Collision of aircraft
Status: in_force

The liability of the owners of one aircraft to the owner of another aircraft, or to aeronauts or passengers on either aircraft, for damages caused by collision on land or in the air shall be determined by the rules of law applicable to torts on land.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 145-4 — NC Code / Chapter 145 / Section 145-4
§ 145-4. State shell
Status: in_force

The Scotch bonnet is hereby adopted as the official State shell of the State of North Carolina.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 131E-144-7 — NC Code / Chapter 131E / Section 131E-144-7
§ 131E-144.7. Confidentiality
Status: in_force

(a) The Department of Health and Human Services may inspect home care clients' medical records maintained at the agency when necessary to investigate any alleged violation of this Part.

(b) The Department shall maintain the confidentiality of all persons who register complaints with the Department and of all medical records inspected by the Department. A person who has filed a complaint shall have access to information about a complaint investigation involving a specific home care client if written authorization is obtained from the client or legal representative.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 122C-265 — NC Code / Chapter 122C / Section 122C-265
§ 122C-265. Outpatient commitment; examination and treatment pending hearing
Status: in_force

(a) If a respondent, who has been recommended for outpatient commitment by [a] commitment examiner different from the proposed outpatient treatment physician or center, fails to appear for examination by the proposed outpatient treatment physician or center at the designated time, the physician or center shall notify the clerk of superior court who shall issue an order to a law enforcement officer to take the respondent into custody and take him immediately to the outpatient treatment physician or center for evaluation. The custody order is valid throughout the State. The law-enforcement officer may wait during the examination and return the respondent to his home after the examination.

(b) The examining commitment examiner or the proposed outpatient treatment physician or center may prescribe to the respondent reasonable and appropriate medication and treatment that are consistent with accepted medical standards pending the district court hearing.

(c) In no event may a respondent released on a recommendation that he or she meets the outpatient commitment criteria be physically forced to take medication or forcibly detained for treatment pending a district court hearing.

(d) If at any time pending the district court hearing the outpatient treatment physician or center determines that the respondent does not meet the criteria of G.S. 122C-263(d)(1) , the physician shall release the respondent and notify the clerk of court and the proceedings shall be terminated.

(e) If a respondent becomes dangerous to self as defined in G.S. 122C-3(11) a., or others, as defined in G.S. 122C-3(11) b., pending a district court hearing on outpatient commitment, new proceedings for involuntary inpatient commitment may be initiated.

(f) If an inpatient commitment proceeding is initiated pending the hearing for outpatient commitment and the respondent is admitted to a 24-hour facility to be held for an inpatient commitment hearing, notice shall be sent by the clerk of court in the county where the respondent is being held to the clerk of court of the county where the outpatient commitment was initiated and the outpatient commitment proceeding shall be terminated.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-20-1 — NC Code / Chapter 28A / Section 28A-20-1
§ 28A-20-1. Inventory within three months
Status: in_force

Unless the time for filing the inventory has been extended by the clerk of superior court, every personal representative and collector, within three months after the qualification of that personal representative or collector, shall return to the clerk, on oath, a just, true and perfect inventory of all the real and personal property of the deceased, which have come to the hands of the personal representative or collector, or to the hands of any person for the personal representative or collector, which inventory shall be signed by the personal representative or collector and be recorded by the clerk.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-3900 — NC Code / Chapter 7B / Section 7B-3900
§ 7B-3900. Legislative findings and purposes
Status: in_force

(a) Finding adoptive families for children, for whom state assistance is desirable pursuant to G.S. 108A-49 and G.S. 108A-50 , and assuring the protection of the interests of the children affected during the entire assistance period require special measures when the adoptive parents move to another state or are residents of another state. Additionally, the provision of medical and other necessary services for children receiving State assistance encounters special difficulties when the provision of services takes place in another state.

(b) In recognition of the need for special measures, the General Assembly authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to enter into interstate agreements with agencies of other states for the protection of children on behalf of whom adoption assistance is being provided by the Department of Health and Human Services and to provide procedures for interstate adoption assistance payments, including payments for medical services.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-41-45 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-41-45
§ 58-41-45. Termination of writing kind of insurance
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in G.S. 58-41-30 , no insurer may terminate, by nonrenewals, an entire book of business of any kind of insurance without 60 days prior written notice to the Commissioner; unless the Commissioner determines that continuation of the line of business would impair the solvency of the insurer or unless the Commissioner determines that such termination is effected under a plan that minimizes disruption in the marketplace or that makes provisions for alternative coverage at comparable rates and terms.

(b) Except as provided in G.S. 58-41-30 , in-term cancellation by an insurer of an entire book of business of any kind of insurance is presumed to be unfair, inequitable, and contrary to the public interest, unless the Commissioner determines that continuation of the line of business would impair the solvency of the insurer or unless the Commissioner determines that such termination is effected under a plan that minimizes disruption in the marketplace or that makes provisions for alternative coverage at comparable rates and terms.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401-3 — NC Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14-401-3
§ 14-401.3. Inscription on gravestone or monument charging commission of crime
Status: in_force

It shall be illegal for any person to erect or cause to be erected any gravestone or monument bearing any inscription charging any person with the commission of a crime, and it shall be illegal for any person owning, controlling or operating any cemetery to permit such gravestone to be erected and maintained therein. If such gravestone has been erected in any graveyard, cemetery or burial plot, it shall be the duty of the person having charge thereof to remove and obliterate such inscription. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-301 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-301
§ 163-301. Chairman of election board to furnish certificate of elections
Status: in_force

Not earlier than five days nor later than 10 days after the results of any municipal election have been officially determined and published in accordance with G.S. 163-182.5 , the chairman of the county board of elections shall issue certificates of election, under the hand and seal of the chairman, to all municipal and special district officers. In issuing such certificates of election the chairman shall be restricted by the provisions of G.S. 163-182.14 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-286-1 — NC Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14-286-1
§ 14-286.1. Making false ambulance request
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully summon an ambulance or willfully report that an ambulance is needed when such person does not have good cause to believe that the services of an ambulance are needed. Every person convicted of willfully violating this section shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-806 — NC Code / Chapter 7B / Section 7B-806
§ 7B-806. Record of proceedings
Status: in_force

All adjudicatory and dispositional hearings shall be recorded by stenographic notes or by electronic or mechanical means. Records shall be reduced to a written transcript only when timely notice of appeal has been given. The court may order that other hearings be recorded.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 127B-35 — NC Code / Chapter 127B / Section 127B-35
§ 127B-35. Action by Attorney General
Status: in_force

(a) Civil Action.--The Attorney General may commence a civil action against any person that violates any provision of this Article.

(b) Remedies.--The court may order any of the following remedies:

(1) Injunction.

(2) Payment of restitution to a servicemember in the amount of money unlawfully received from, or required to be refunded to, the servicemember.

(3) Any other remedy provided under Chapter 75 of the General Statutes .

(c) Civil Penalty.--The court may assess a civil penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) per violation. The clear proceeds of civil penalties imposed pursuant to this section shall be remitted to the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund in accordance with G.S. 115C-457.2 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-132-5G — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-132-5G
§ 163-132.5G. Voting data maintained by precinct
Status: in_force

(a) Each county board of elections shall maintain voting data by voting precinct so that precinct returns for each item on the ballot shall include the votes cast by all residents of that voting precinct who voted, regardless of where the voter voted. The county board shall not be required to report returns by voting precinct for voters who voted other than at the voting precinct associated with that voter's voter registration until 30 days after the election. In reporting returns, the county board shall not compromise the secrecy of an individual's ballot. In reporting returns, the county board shall report, by precinct for each item on the ballot, the number of voters who did not select a choice for that item on the ballot and the number of voters who selected more choices than available for that item on the ballot.

(b) The 30-day deadline for reporting returns by voting precinct does not relieve the county board of the duty to report all returns as soon as practicable after the election according to other categories specified by the State Board.

(c) The State Board shall adopt rules for the enforcement of this section.

(d) If a county board of elections does not comply with the requirements of this section, the State Board shall direct the chair of the county board of elections to appear and explain the delay at the next official meeting of the State Board.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-168-14A — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-168-14A
§ 106-168.14A. Collectors of waste kitchen grease subject to certain provisions
Status: in_force

(a) For purposes of this section, “ collector of waste kitchen grease ” means any person who collects waste kitchen grease for the purpose of selling the same to any renderer or other person for further processing.

(b) Any collector of waste kitchen grease who sells the waste kitchen grease collected shall provide the purchaser with a statement of ownership setting forth the lawful ownership of the waste kitchen grease sold to such purchaser.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-28-6B — NC Code / Chapter 136 / Section 136-28-6B
§ 136-28.6B. Applicable stormwater regulation
Status: in_force

For the purposes of stormwater regulation, any construction undertaken by a private party pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 136-18(17) , 136-18(27) , 136-18(29) , 136-18(29a) , 136-28.6 , or 136-28.6A shall be considered to have been undertaken by the Department, and the stormwater law and rules applicable to the Department shall apply.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 108A-47-1 — NC Code / Chapter 108A / Section 108A-47-1
§ 108A-47.1. Special Assistance in-home payments
Status: in_force

(a) The Department of Health and Human Services may use funds from the existing State-County Special Assistance budget to provide Special Assistance payments to eligible individuals 18 years of age or older in in-home living arrangements. The standard monthly payment to individuals enrolled in the Special Assistance in-home program shall be one hundred percent (100%) of the monthly payment the individual would receive if the individual resided in an adult care home and qualified for Special Assistance, except if a lesser payment amount is appropriate for the individual as determined by the local case manager. The Department shall implement Special Assistance in-home eligibility policies and procedures to assure that in-home program participants are those individuals who need and, but for the in-home program, would seek placement in an adult care home facility. The Department's policies and procedures shall include the use of a functional assessment.

(b) All county departments of social services shall participate in the State-County Special Assistance in-home program by making Special Assistance in-home slots available to individuals who meet the eligibility requirements established by the Department pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. By February 15, 2013, the Department shall establish a formula to determine the need for additional State-County Special Assistance in-home slots for each county. Beginning July 1, 2014, and each July 1 thereafter, the Department shall review and revise the formula as necessary.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-164-44E — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-164-44E
§ 105-164.44E. Transfer to the Dry-Cleaning Solvent Cleanup Fund
Status: reserved

(a) Transfer.--At the end of each quarter, the Secretary must transfer to the Dry-Cleaning Solvent Cleanup Fund established under G.S. 143-215.104C an amount equal to fifteen percent (15%) of the net State sales and use taxes collected under G.S. 105-164.4(a)(4) during the previous fiscal year, as determined by the Secretary based on available data.

(b) Sunset.--This section is repealed effective July 1, 2030.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 161-14-02 — NC Code / Chapter 161 / Section 161-14-02
§ 161-14.02. Registration of documents or instruments purporting to impact official birth records
Status: in_force

(a) Prior to recording a document or instrument that (i) purports to impact an official record of birth meeting the requirements of G.S. 161-14 and (ii) is not a birth registration or birth certificate, an amendment of a birth certificate, or a certificate of identification as defined in Article 4 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes, the Register of Deeds shall conspicuously mark the first page of the document or instrument with the following statement:

“THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT AN OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORD.”

(b) This section does not apply to a document or instrument which is attached to real estate documents as an exhibit.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-568-4 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-568-4
§ 106-568.4. By whom referendum to be managed; announcement
Status: in_force

The governing boards of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, the North Carolina State Grange, and the North Carolina Agricultural Foundation, Inc., shall arrange for and manage any referendum conducted under the provisions of this Article but shall, 60 days before the date upon which it is to be held, fix, determine, and publicly announce in each county the date, hours, and polling places in that county for voting in such referendum, the amount and basis proposed to be collected, the means by which such assessment shall be collected as authorized by the growers and producers, and the general purposes for which said funds so collected shall be applied. Provided, that the governing boards of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Inc., the North Carolina State Grange, the North Carolina Tobacco Foundation, Inc., and the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina, Incorporated, shall arrange for and manage any referendum for tobacco poundage assessments under the provisions of this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-49-1 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-49-1
§ 143-49.1. Purchases by volunteer nonprofit fire department and lifesaving and rescue squad
Status: in_force

In consideration of public service, any volunteer nonprofit fire department, lifesaving and rescue squad in this State may purchase gas, oil, and tires for their official vehicles and any other materials and supplies under State contract through the Department of Administration, and may purchase surplus property through the Department of Administration on the same basis applicable to counties and municipalities.

The Department of Administration shall make its services available to these organizations in the purchase of such supplies under the same laws, rules and regulations applicable to nonprofit organizations as provided in G.S. 143-49 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 78C-86 — NC Code / Chapter 78C / Section 78C-86
§ 78C-86. Definitions
Status: in_force

The following definitions apply in this Article:

(1) Agency contract.--An agreement in which a student-athlete authorizes a person to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the student-athlete a professional-sports-services contract or an endorsement contract.

(2) Athlete agent.--An individual who enters into an agency contract with a student-athlete or, directly or indirectly, recruits or solicits a student-athlete to enter into an agency contract. The term includes an individual who represents to the public that the individual is an athlete agent. The term does not include a spouse, parent, sibling, or guardian of the student-athlete or an individual acting solely on behalf of a professional sports team or professional sports organization.

(3) Athletic director.--An individual responsible for administering the overall athletic program of an educational institution or, if an educational institution has separately administered athletic programs for male students and female students, the athletic program for males or the athletic program for females, as appropriate.

(4) Contact.--A communication, direct or indirect, between an athlete agent and a student-athlete to recruit or solicit the student-athlete to enter into an agency contract.

(5) Endorsement contract.--An agreement under which a student-athlete is employed or receives consideration to use on behalf of the other party any value that the student-athlete may have because of publicity, reputation, following, or fame obtained because of athletic ability or performance.

(6) Intercollegiate sport.--A sport played at the collegiate level for which eligibility requirements for participation by a student-athlete are established by a national association for the promotion or regulation of collegiate athletics.

(7) Person.--An individual, company, corporation, partnership, association, or any other legal or commercial entity.

(8) Professional-sports-services contract.--An agreement under which an individual is employed or agrees to render services as a player on a professional sports team, with a professional sports organization, or as a professional athlete.

(9) Record.--Information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

(10) Registration.--A certificate issued by the Secretary of State evidencing that a person has satisfied the requirements of an athlete agent pursuant to this Article.

(11) Student-athlete.--An individual who engages in, is eligible to engage in, or may be eligible in the future to engage in any intercollegiate sport. If an individual is permanently ineligible to participate in a particular intercollegiate sport, the individual is not a student-athlete for purposes of that sport.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-542 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-542
§ 15A-542. False qualification by surety
Status: in_force

(a) No person may sign an appearance bond as surety knowing or having reason to know that he does not own sufficient property over and above his exemption allowed by law to enable him to pay the bond should it be ordered forfeited.

(b) A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 74F-13 — NC Code / Chapter 74F / Section 74F-13
§ 74F-13. Responsibilities of employers
Status: in_force

Every licensee under this Chapter shall provide to the Board the names of each person employed by the licensee who either performs locksmith services or has access to locksmith tools. The licensee shall notify the Board within 30 days of any change in the information provided pursuant to this section.