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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-277-30 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-277-30
§ 106-277.30. Filing complaint; investigation; referral to Seed Board
Status: in_force

(a) Complaint by Buyer.--When a buyer believes that he or she has suffered damages due to the failure of agricultural or vegetable seed to produce or perform as labeled or as warranted, or as the result of negligence, the buyer may make a sworn complaint against the dealer from whom the seeds were purchased, alleging the damages sustained or to be sustained, and file the complaint with the Commissioner within such time as to permit inspection of the seed, crops, or plants. The buyer shall send a copy of the complaint to the dealer by registered or certified mail. A filing fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) shall be paid to the Department with each complaint filed. This fee may be used by the Commissioner to offset the expenses of the Seed Board incurred under G.S. 106-277.32 . Within 10 days after receipt of a copy of the complaint, the dealer may file an answer to the complaint and, in that event, shall send a copy to the buyer by registered or certified mail.

(b) Investigation Requested by Dealer.--Any dealer who has received notice, either orally or in writing, that a buyer believes that he or she has suffered damage due to the failure of agricultural or vegetable seed sold by the dealer to perform as labeled or as warranted, or as a result of negligence, may request an investigation by the Seed Board pursuant to G.S. 106-277.32 . A filing fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) shall be paid to the Department by the party requesting the investigation. The dealer shall send a copy of the request to the buyer by registered or certified mail. The buyer may file a response to the request with the Commissioner within 10 days of receipt of the request for an investigation.

(c) Referral to Seed Board.--The Commissioner shall refer the complaint or request for investigation to the Seed Board to investigate and make findings and recommendations on the matters complained of pursuant to G.S. 106-277.32 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-388 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-388
§ 106-388. Animals affected with, or exposed to, brucellosis declared subject to quarantine, etc.
Status: in_force

It is hereby declared that the disease of animals known as brucellosis, or Bang's disease, is of an infectious and contagious nature, and animals affected with, or exposed to, or suspected of being carriers of the disease, shall be subject to quarantine and the rules and regulations of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-15-1 — NC Code / Chapter 42 / Section 42-15-1
§ 42-15.1. Landlord's lien on crop insurance for rents, advances, etc.; enforcement
Status: in_force

Where lands are rented or leased by agreement, written or oral, for agricultural purposes, or are cultivated by a cropper, unless otherwise agreed between the parties to the lease or agreement, the landlord or his assigns shall have a lien on all the insurance procured by the tenant or cropper on the crops raised on the lands leased or rented to the extent of any rents due or advances made to the tenant or cropper.

The lien provided herein shall be preferred to all other liens on said insurance, and the landlord or his assigns shall be entitled to all the remedies at law for the enforcement of the lien.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-177 — NC Code / Chapter 97 / Section 97-177
§ 97-177. License covering applicant and any subsidiary or applicant relying on a guarantor; procedure; requirements
Status: in_force

(a) The Commissioner may, in the Commissioner's discretion, upon request by an applicant, issue a license to an applicant or to an applicant and one or more of its subsidiaries if all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(1) The applicant or a guarantor of the applicant executes a guaranty agreement, in a form prescribed by the Commissioner, for the payment of all workers' compensation liabilities covered under the Act. For any applicant or guarantor that is a corporation, there shall be submitted, along with the guaranty agreement, a board of directors' resolution from the respective corporation authorizing the guaranty of the liabilities of the subsidiary company or companies and granting signature authority to each person or officer executing the agreement.

(2) The applicant or guarantor files a statement with the Commissioner that lists the percentage of ownership of voting securities or proxies representing voting securities owned or held by the applicant or guarantor for each subsidiary, or in the case of a not-for-profit entity, documentation acceptable to the Commissioner evidencing control.

(3) The applicant and its guarantor or the applicant and its subsidiaries, whichever applies, satisfy the requirements of G.S. 97-170(c) .

(4) All other applicable requirements for licensure under the Act are satisfied.

(b) A license issued by the Commissioner pursuant to this section shall include the name of the applicant, the name of each licensed subsidiary, and the date of issuance for each licensed subsidiary.

(c) If a self-insurer requests to add a subsidiary to its license, the Commissioner shall review the request in accordance with this section. Upon approval, the Commissioner shall issue to the self-insurer a new license that includes the newly licensed subsidiary and the date of license issuance for the newly licensed subsidiary, and the self-insurer shall return the original license to the Commissioner.

(d) A self-insurer shall neither include nor delete a subsidiary from its license without the Commissioner's prior written approval.

(e) If a controlling relationship or guaranty agreement terminates, the self-insurer shall retain all liabilities under the Act that were incurred by the self-insurer during the period of self-insurance and shall account for all such liabilities until discharged, as evidenced by reports filed with the Commissioner. Termination of a guaranty agreement does not affect the guarantor's liability for payment of liabilities arising prior to termination of the agreement.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 31-51 — NC Code / Chapter 31 / Section 31-51
§ 31-51. Incorporation by reference
Status: in_force

A writing in existence when a will is executed may be incorporated by reference if the language of the will manifests this intent and describes the writing sufficiently to permit its identification.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 41-6-2 — NC Code / Chapter 41 / Section 41-6-2
§ 41-6.2. Doctrine of worthier title abolished
Status: in_force

(a) The law of this State does not include: (i) the common-law rule of worthier title that a grantor or testator cannot convey or devise an interest to the grantor's or testator's own heirs, or (ii) a presumption or rule of interpretation that a grantor or testator does not intend, by a grant or devise to the grantor's or testator's own heirs or next of kin, to transfer an interest to them. The meaning of a grant or devise of a legal or equitable interest to a grantor's or testator's own heirs or next of kin, however designated, shall be determined by the general rules applicable to the interpretation of grants or wills.

(b) Subdivision (a)(i) of this section shall apply to all revocable trusts in existence as of February 26, 1979 and to all instruments, including revocable trusts, becoming effective after February 26, 1979, and subdivision (a)(ii) of this section shall apply to all instruments in existence as of February 26, 1979 and to all instruments becoming effective after February 26, 1979. If the application of this section to any instrument is held invalid, its application to other instruments to which it may validly be applied shall not be affected thereby.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-21-23 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-21-23
§ 90-21.23. Election by State
Status: in_force

For the purpose of making applicable in the State the early opt-in provisions of Title 4 of the “Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986,” P.L. 99-660 , the State elects to exercise on October 1, 1987, the provisions of Title 4, Section 411(c)(2)(A) of that act to promote good faith professional review activities.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-258-18 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-258-18
§ 163-258.18. Issuance of injunction or other equitable relief
Status: in_force

A court may issue an injunction or grant other equitable relief appropriate to ensure substantial compliance with, or enforce, this Article on application by:

(1) A covered voter alleging a grievance under this Article; or

(2) An election official in this State.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-170-1 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-170-1
§ 143-170.1. Statement of cost of public documents; chief administrator charged with compliance
Status: in_force

(a) Every agency of this State publishing a public document, other than one published for the principal purpose of sale to the public, shall cause the following statement to be printed adjacent to the identification of the agency responsible for the publication:

“(Number of copies) copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $___, or $___ per copy.”

For the purposes of this Article the term “cost” shall include printing costs in the form of labor and materials, and other identifiable design, typesetting, and binding costs.

(a1) Any public document without a statement of cost shall not be mailed or distributed at public expense.

(a2) Whenever a public document that is published by an agency of this State is printed on recycled paper, the document shall contain a printed statement or symbol indicating that the document was printed on recycled paper.

(a3) If an agency fails to comply with this section, then the agency's printing budget for the fiscal year following the violation shall be reduced by ten percent (10%).

(b) The chief administrator of the agency authorizing the printing is charged with agency compliance with the provisions of this Article.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-516 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-516
§ 143-516. Single State agency
Status: in_force

The Department of Health and Human Services is hereby designated as the single agency for North Carolina for the purposes of all federal emergency medical services legislation as has or may be hereafter enacted to assist in development of emergency medical services plans and programs.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-202-14 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-202-14
§ 90-202.14. Not applicable to physicians
Status: in_force

Nothing in this Article shall apply to a physician licensed to practice medicine or to a person acting under the supervision or at his direction in the course of such practice.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 111-31 — NC Code / Chapter 111 / Section 111-31
§ 111-30 to 111-33; records
Status: in_force

For the purposes of G.S. 111-30 to 111-33 the court may be either a domestic relations court established pursuant to Article 13, Chapter 7, General Statutes , or the clerk of the superior court in the county having responsibility for the administration of the particular aid to the blind payments. The court may, for the purposes of G.S. 111-30 to 111-33 , direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to maintain records pertaining to all aspects of any personal representative proceeding, which the court may adopt as the court's record and in lieu of the maintenance of separate records by the court.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-28 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-28
§ 163-28. State Board of Elections independent agency
Status: in_force

The State Board of Elections shall not be placed within any principal administrative department. The State Board shall exercise its statutory powers, duties, functions, and authority and shall have all powers and duties conferred upon the heads of principal departments under G.S. 143B-10 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-150-1 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-150-1
§ 143B-150.1. Use of funds for North Carolina Child Treatment Program
Status: in_force

(a) State funds appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, for the North Carolina Child Treatment Program shall be used exclusively for the following purposes:

(1) To continue to provide clinical training and coaching to licensed clinicians on an array of evidence-based treatments and to provide a statewide platform to assure accountability and measurable outcomes.

(2) To maintain and manage a public roster of program graduates, linking high-quality clinicians with children, families, and professionals.

(3) To partner with leadership within the State, local management entities/managed care organizations as defined in G.S. 122C-3 , and the private sector to bring effective mental health treatment to children in juvenile justice and mental health facilities.

(b) All data, including any entered or stored in the State-funded secure database developed for the North Carolina Child Treatment Program to track individual-level and aggregate-level data with interface capability to work with existing networks within State agencies, is and remains the sole property of the State.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 120-305 — NC Code / Chapter 120 / Section 120-305
§ 120-305. Creation and membership of Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on General Government
Status: in_force

(a) The Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on General Government is established. The Committee consists of 12 members as follows:

(1) Six members of the Senate appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. At least three of the members shall be members of the Senate appropriations committee that has jurisdiction over the agencies set out in G.S. 120-306(a)(1) .

(2) Six members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. At least three of the members shall be members of the House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee that has jurisdiction over the agencies set out in G.S. 120-306(a)(1) .

(b) Terms on the Committee are for two years and begin on the convening of the General Assembly in each odd-numbered year. Members may complete a term of service on the Committee even if they do not seek reelection or are not reelected to the General Assembly, but resignation or removal from service in the General Assembly constitutes resignation or removal from service on the Committee.

(c) A member continues to serve until a successor is appointed. A vacancy shall be filled within 30 days by the officer who made the original appointment.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-113 — NC Code / Chapter 136 / Section 136-113
§ 136-113. Interest as a part of just compensation
Status: in_force

To said amount awarded as damages by the commissioners or a jury or judge, the judge shall, as a part of just compensation, add interest at the legal rate on said amount from the date of taking to the date of satisfaction of the judgment; but interest shall not be allowed from the date of deposit on so much thereof as shall have been paid into court as provided in this Article. For purposes of this section, the term “ legal rate ” means the prime lending rate, as published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on the first business day of the calendar month immediately preceding the date of taking. The legal rate established under this section shall not exceed the legal rate set in G.S. 24-1 . An amount awarded as damages shall bear simple, not compounding, interest.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 66-7 — NC Code / Chapter 66 / Section 66-7
§ 66-7. Who to pay inspectors' fees; penalty for extortion
Status: in_force

The fees of inspectors shall be paid by the purchaser or exporter of the articles inspected, and if any inspector shall receive any greater fees than are by law allowed, he shall forfeit and pay ten dollars ($10.00) for every offense to any person suing for the same.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 44A-34 — NC Code / Chapter 44A / Section 44A-34
§ 44A-34. Construction of Article
Status: in_force

The addition of this Article shall not be construed as making the provisions of Articles 1 and 2 of Chapter 44A of the General Statutes apply to public bodies or public buildings.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 39-44 — NC Code / Chapter 39 / Section 39-44
§ 39-44. Definition
Status: in_force

The term “ business trust ” whenever used or referred to in this Article shall mean any unincorporated association, including an Illinois land trust, a Delaware statutory trust, or a Massachusetts business trust, engaged in any business or trade under a written instrument or declaration of trust under which the beneficial interest therein is divided into shares represented by certificates or shares of beneficial interest.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-85-40 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-85-40
§ 90-85.40. Violations
Status: in_force

(a) It shall be unlawful for any owner or manager of a pharmacy or other place to allow or cause anyone other than a pharmacist to dispense or compound any prescription drug unless that person is a pharmacy technician or a pharmacy student who is enrolled in a school of pharmacy approved by the Board and is working under the supervision of a pharmacist.

(b) Every person lawfully authorized to compound or dispense prescription drugs shall comply with all the laws and regulations governing the labeling and packaging of such drugs by pharmacists.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person not licensed as a pharmacist to compound or dispense any prescription drug, unless that person is a pharmacy technician or a pharmacy student who is enrolled in a school of pharmacy approved by the Board and is working under the supervision of a pharmacist.

(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to manage any place of business where devices are dispensed or sold at retail without a permit as required by this Article.

(d1) It is unlawful for a person to own or manage a place of business from which medical equipment is delivered without a permit as required by this Article.

(e) It shall be unlawful for any person without legal authorization to dispose of an article that has been embargoed under this Article.

(f) It shall be unlawful to violate any provision of this Article or of any rules or regulations enacted pursuant to it.

(g) This Article shall not be construed to prohibit any person from performing an act that person is authorized to perform pursuant to North Carolina law. Health care providers who are authorized to prescribe drugs without supervision are authorized to dispense drugs without supervision.

(h) A violation of this Article shall be a Class 1 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 89B-15 — NC Code / Chapter 89B / Section 89B-15
§ 89B-15. Violation
Status: in_force

A violation of this Chapter is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-40-80 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-40-80
§ 58-40-80. Exchange of information or experience data; consultation with statistical organizations and insurers
Status: in_force

Statistical organizations licensed pursuant to G.S. 58-40-50 and admitted insurers are authorized to exchange information and experience data between and among themselves in this State and with statistical organizations and insurers in other states and may consult with them with respect to rate making and the application of rating systems.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 147-69-8 — NC Code / Chapter 147 / Section 147-69-8
§ 147-69.8. Annual report on new investment authority
Status: in_force

Whenever the General Assembly broadens the investment authority of the State Treasurer as to the General Fund, the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, the Consolidated Judicial Retirement System, the Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Pension Fund, the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System, the Legislative Retirement System, the North Carolina National Guard Pension Fund, or any idle funds, the State Treasurer shall annually report in detail to the General Assembly the investments made under such new authority, including the returns on those investments, earnings, changes to value, and gains and losses in disposition of such investments. The report shall be made no later than the first six months of each calendar year, covering performance in the prior fiscal year. As to each type of new investment authority, the report shall be made for at least four years. To the extent the information required by this section is also required in the reports under G.S. 147-69.12 , the State Treasurer may combine reports or make cross-reference to those reports.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 74-38 — NC Code / Chapter 74 / Section 74-38
§ 74-38. Commission to file copies of bylaws with Department of Environmental Quality
Status: reserved

(a), (b) Repealed by Laws 1973, c. 1262, § 33.

(c) In accordance with Article V(i) of the Compact, the Commission shall file copies of the bylaws and any amendments thereto with the Department of Environmental Quality.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-519 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-519
§ 160A-519. Cooperation by public bodies
Status: in_force

(a) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking or carrying out of a redevelopment project located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any public body may, upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine:

(1) Dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its interest in any property, or grant easements, licenses or any other rights or privileges therein to a commission;

(2) Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished in connection with a redevelopment project;

(3) Furnish, dedicate, close, vacate, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, sidewalks, ways or other places, which it is otherwise empowered to undertake;

(4) Plan or replan, zone or rezone any part of the redevelopment;

(5) Cause administrative and other services to be furnished to the commission of the character which the public body is otherwise empowered to undertake or furnish for the same or other purposes;

(6) Incur the entire expense of any public improvements made by such public body in exercising the powers granted in this section;

(7) Do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning or carrying out of a redevelopment plan.

(b) Any sale, conveyance, or agreement provided for in this section may be made by a public body without public notice, advertisement or public bidding.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 66-205 — NC Code / Chapter 66 / Section 66-205
§ 66-205. Agent licenses required
Status: in_force

No employee or other representative of a rental car company shall solicit or sell any kind of insurance in connection with a rental agreement unless he is duly licensed under Article 33 of Chapter 58 of the General Statutes .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-24-1 — NC Code / Chapter 28A / Section 28A-24-1
§ 28A-24-1. Definitions
Status: in_force

In this Article:

(1) “ Co-owners with right of survivorship ” includes joint tenants in a joint tenancy with right of survivorship, tenants by the entireties, and other co-owners of property or accounts held under circumstances that entitle one or more to the whole of the property or account on the death of the other or others.

(2) “ Governing instrument ” means a deed, will, trust, insurance or annuity policy, account with a POD designation, pension, profit sharing, retirement, or similar benefit plan, instrument creating or exercising a power of appointment or a power of attorney, or a dispositive, appointive, or nominative instrument of any similar type.

(3) “ Payor ” means a trustee, insurer, business entity, employer, government, governmental agency or subdivision, or any other person authorized or obligated by law or a governing instrument to make payments.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 153A-444 — NC Code / Chapter 153A / Section 153A-444
§ 153A-444. Parks and recreation
Status: in_force

A county may establish parks and provide recreational programs pursuant to Chapter 160A, Article 18.