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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 117-22 — NC Code / Chapter 117 / Section 117-22
§ 117-22. Covenants or agreements for security of bonds
Status: in_force

In connection with the issuance of any bonds, a corporation may make covenants or agreements and do any and all acts or things that a business corporation can make or do under the laws of the State in order to secure its obligations or which, in the absolute discretion of the board, tend to make the obligations more marketable, notwithstanding that such covenants, agreements, acts and things may constitute limitations on the exercise of the powers herein granted.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47-16-7 — NC Code / Chapter 47 / Section 47-16-7
§ 47-16.7. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
Status: in_force

This Article modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act ( 15 U.S.C. § 7001, et seq. ) but does not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(c) of that act ( 15 U.S.C. § 7001(c) ) or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 103(b) of that act ( 15 U.S.C. § 7003(b) ).
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 120-131 — NC Code / Chapter 120 / Section 120-131
§ 120-131. Documents produced by legislative employees
Status: in_force

(a) Documents prepared by legislative employees upon the request of legislators are confidential. Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the existence of the document may not be revealed nor may a copy of the document be provided to any person who is not a legislative employee without the consent of the legislator.

(b) A document prepared by a legislative employee upon the request of a legislator becomes available to the public when the document is a:

(1) Bill or resolution and it has been introduced;

(2) Proposed amendment or committee substitute for a bill or resolution and it has been offered at a committee meeting or on the floor of a house;

(3) Proposed conference committee report and it has been offered at a joint meeting of the conference committees; or

(4) Bill, resolution, memorandum, written analysis, letter, or other document resulting from a drafting or information request and it has been distributed at a legislative commission or standing committee or subcommittee meeting not held in executive session, closed session, or on the floor of a house.

A document prepared by a legislative employee upon the request of any legislator, that pursuant to this Article does not become available to the public, is not a “public record,” as defined by G.S. 132-1 .

(c) This section does not prohibit the dissemination of information or language contained in any document which has been prepared by a legislative employee in response to a substantially similar request from another legislator, provided that the identity of the requesting legislator and the fact that he had made such a request not be divulged.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 114-4-2B — NC Code / Chapter 114 / Section 114-4-2B
§ 114-4.2B. Employment of attorney for University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill
Status: in_force

The Attorney General is hereby authorized to employ an attorney to be assigned by him full time to the University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill. Such attorney shall be subject to all the provisions of Chapter 126 of the General Statutes , relating to the State Human Resources system. Such attorney shall also perform additional duties as may be assigned to him by the Attorney General.

The attorney employed by the Attorney General under provisions of this section shall be paid from the funds of the University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-218-30 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-218-30
§ 115C-218.30. Accountability; reporting requirements to State Board of Education
Status: in_force

(a) The school is subject to the financial audits, the audit procedures, and the audit requirements adopted by the State Board of Education for charter schools. These audit requirements may include the requirements of the School Budget and Fiscal Control Act. The audit requirements shall not include submission to, review of, or approval by, the Local Government Commission for any audit reports, audit contracts, or audit invoices, nor shall they require any other authority, involvement, or oversight by the Local Government Commission with regard to financial reporting, accountability requirements, or procedures.

(b) The school shall comply with the reporting requirements established by the State Board of Education in the Uniform Education Reporting System.

(c) The school shall report at least annually to the State Board of Education the information required by the State Board.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-546-21 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-546-21
§ 115C-546.21. Fund disbursements; allowable uses
Status: in_force

The Department of Public Instruction shall annually allocate all funds available from the Fund to each county in this State in equal amounts. Counties shall utilize funds received under this section for enlargement, improvement, expansion, repair, or renovation of classroom facilities at public school buildings within local school administrative units located in the county. Funds received under this section shall not be used for the retirement of indebtedness. As used in this section, “public school buildings” has the same meaning as in G.S. 115C-546.2(b) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47A-21 — NC Code / Chapter 47A / Section 47A-21
§ 47A-21. Units taxed separately
Status: in_force

Each condominium unit and its percentage of undivided interest in the common areas and facilities shall be deemed to be a parcel and shall be separately assessed and taxed by each assessing unit and special district for all types of taxes authorized by law including but not limited to special ad valorem levies and special assessments. Each unit holder shall be liable solely for the amount of taxes against his individual unit and shall not be affected by the consequences resulting from the tax delinquency of other unit holders. Neither the building, the property nor any of the common areas and facilities shall be deemed to be a parcel.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21-35 — NC Code / Chapter 45 / Section 45-21-35
§ 45-21.35. Ordering resales; receivers for property; tax payments
Status: reserved

The court or judge granting such order or injunction, or before whom the same is returnable, shall have the right before, but not after, the rights of the parties to the sale or resale becoming fixed pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29A to order a resale by the mortgagee, trustee, commissioner, or other person authorized to make the same in such manner and upon such terms as may be just and equitable: Provided, the rights of all parties in interest, or who may be affected thereby, shall be preserved and protected by bond or indemnity in such form and amount as the court may require, and the court or judge may also appoint a receiver of the property or the rents and proceeds thereof, pending any sale or resale, and may make such order for the payment of taxes or other prior lien as may be necessary, subject to the right of appeal to the appellate division in all cases.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-284 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-284
§ 160A-284. Oath of office; holding other offices
Status: in_force

(a) Each person appointed or employed as chief of police, policeman, or auxiliary policeman shall take and subscribe before some person authorized by law to administer oaths the oath of office required by Article VI, Sec. 7, of the Constitution . The oath shall be filed with the city clerk.

(b) The offices of policeman and chief of police are hereby declared to be offices that may be held concurrently with any other appointive office pursuant to Article VI, Sec. 9, of the Constitution . The offices of policeman and chief of police are hereby declared to be offices that may be held concurrently with any elective office, other than elective office in the municipality employing the policeman or chief of police, pursuant to Section 9 of Article VI of the Constitution .

(c) The office of auxiliary policeman is hereby declared to be an office that may be held concurrently with any elective office or appointive office pursuant to Article VI, Sec. 9, of the Constitution .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-105-26 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-105-26
§ 115C-105.26. Waivers of State laws or rules
Status: reserved

(a) Except as otherwise provided for in this section, the State Board of Education shall not grant waivers of State laws or rules to local boards of education. If permitted under this section, a request for a waiver by a local board of education shall (i) identify the school or schools making the request, (ii) identify the State law or rule requesting to be waived, (iii) set out with specificity the circumstances under which the waiver may be used, and (iv) explain how the requested waiver will permit the school to improve student performance.

(b) The State Board of Education may grant waivers to local boards of education of State laws and rules pertaining to the following:

(1) Class size requirements only as provided in G.S. 115C-301(g) .

(2) Repealed by S.L. 2015-241, § 8A.6(a), eff. July 1, 2015 .

(3) School calendar requirements in order to provide sufficient days to accommodate anticipated makeup days due to school closings only as provided in G.S. 115C-84.2(d) .

(c) to (e) Repealed by S.L. 2015-241, § 8A.6(a), eff. July 1, 2015 .

(f) The State Board shall act within 60 days of receipt of all requests for waivers under this section.

(g) The State Board shall, on a regular basis, review all waivers it has granted to determine whether any rules should be repealed or modified or whether the Board should recommend to the General Assembly the repeal or modification of any laws.

(h) By October 15 of each year, the State Board shall report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee with a list of the specific waivers granted to each local board of education under this section. The State Board may include any legislative recommendations identified under subsection (g) of this section in its report.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 119-13-1 — NC Code / Chapter 119 / Section 119-13-1
§ 119-13.1. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Article:

(1) “Lubricating oil” means any oil classified for the use in an internal combustion engine, hydraulic system, gear box, differential, or wheel bearings.

(1a) “Recycled oil” means any oil prepared from used oil for energy recovery or reuse as a petroleum product by reclaiming, reprocessing, rerefining, or other means that use properly treated used oil as a substitute for petroleum products.

(1b) “Rerefined oil” means used oil that is refined to remove the physical and chemical contaminants acquired through use and that, by itself or when blended with new lubricating oil or additives, meets applicable American Petroleum Institute (A.P.I.) service classifications.

(2) “Specifications” means the minimum chemical properties or analysis as determined by the American Society for Testing Materials (A.S.T.M.) test methods using current ASTM analytical procedures.

(3) “Used oil” means any oil that has been refined from crude or synthetic oil and, as a result of use, storage, or handling becomes unsuitable for its original purpose due to the loss of its original properties or the presence of impurities, but that may be rerefined for further use.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-82 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-82
§ 1-82. Venue in all other cases
Status: in_force

In all other cases the action must be tried in the county in which the plaintiffs or the defendants, or any of them, reside at its commencement, or if none of the defendants reside in the State, then in the county in which the plaintiffs, or any of them, reside; and if none of the parties reside in the State, then the action may be tried in any county which the plaintiff designates in the plaintiff's summons and complaint, subject to the power of the court to change the place of trial, in the cases provided by statute; provided that any person who has resided on or been stationed in a United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Air Force installation or reservation within this State for a period of one (1) year or more next preceding the institution of an action shall be deemed a resident of the county within which such installation or reservation, or part thereof, is situated and of any county adjacent to such county where such person stationed at such installation or reservation lives in such adjacent county, for the purposes of this section. The term person shall include military personnel and the spouses and dependents of such personnel.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-567-85 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-567-85
§ 1-567.85. Costs
Status: in_force

(a) On termination of the conciliation proceeding, the conciliators shall set the costs of the conciliation and give written notice of the costs to the parties. For purposes of this section, “costs” includes all of the following:

(1) A reasonable fee to be paid to the conciliators.

(2) Travel and other reasonable expenses of the conciliators.

(3) Travel and other reasonable expenses of witnesses requested by the conciliators, with the consent of the parties.

(4) The cost of any expert advice requested by the conciliators, with the consent of the parties.

(5) The cost of any court.

(b) Costs shall be borne equally by the parties unless a conciliation agreement provides for a different apportionment. All other expenses incurred by a party shall be borne by that party.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-10-01 — NC Code / Chapter 55 / Section 55-10-01
§ 55-10-01. Authority to amend
Status: in_force

(a) A corporation may amend its articles of incorporation at any time to add or change a provision that is required or permitted in the articles of incorporation or to delete a provision not required in the articles of incorporation. Whether a provision is required or permitted in the articles of incorporation is determined as of the effective date of the amendment.

(b) A shareholder of the corporation does not have a vested property right resulting from any provision in the articles of incorporation, including provisions relating to management, control, capital structure, dividend entitlement, or purpose or duration of the corporation.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 54B-100 — NC Code / Chapter 54B / Section 54B-100
§ 54B-100. Membership of a mutual association
Status: in_force

The membership of a mutual association organized or operated under the provisions of this Chapter shall consist of:

(1) Those who hold withdrawable accounts in an association; and

(2) Those who borrow funds and those who become obligated on a loan from the association, for such time as the loan remains unpaid and the borrower remains liable to the association for the payment thereof.

Any person in his own right, or in a trust or other fiduciary capacity, or any partnership, association, corporation, political subdivision or public or governmental unit or entity may become a member of a mutual association. Members shall be possessed of such voting rights and such other rights as are provided by an association's certificate of incorporation and bylaws as approved by the Commissioner of Banks. Members are the owners of a mutual association.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 62-136 — NC Code / Chapter 62 / Section 62-136
§ 62-136. Investigation of existing rates; changing unreasonable rates; certain refunds to be distributed to customers
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever the Commission, after a hearing had after reasonable notice upon its own motion or upon complaint of anyone directly interested, finds that the existing rates in effect and collected by any public utility are unjust, unreasonable, insufficient or discriminatory, or in violation of any provision of law, the Commission shall determine the just, reasonable, and sufficient and nondiscriminatory rates to be thereafter observed and in force, and shall fix the same by order.

(b) All municipalities in the State are deemed to be directly interested in the rates and service of public utilities operating in such municipalities, and may institute or participate in proceedings before the Commission involving such rates or service. Any municipality may institute proceedings before the Commission to eliminate unfair and unreasonable discrimination in rates or service by any public utility between such complainant or its inhabitants and any other municipality or its inhabitants, and the Commission shall, upon complaint, after hearing afforded to the public utility affected and to all municipalities affected, have authority to remove such discrimination.

(c) If any refund is made to a distributing company operating as a public utility in North Carolina of charges paid to the company from which the distributing company obtains the energy, service or commodity distributed, the Commission may, in cases where the charges have been included in rates paid by the customers of the distributing company, require said distributing company to distribute said refund plus interest among the distributing company's customers in a manner prescribed by the Commission. The amount of said interest shall be determined pursuant to G.S. 62-130(e) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 147-78 — NC Code / Chapter 147 / Section 147-78
§ 147-78. Treasurer to select depositories
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to select and designate, wherever necessary, in this State some bank or banks, savings and loan association or associations, or trust company as an official depository of the State.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 38B-1 — NC Code / Chapter 38B / Section 38B-1
§ 38B-1. Title
Status: in_force

This Chapter may be cited as the Trespasser Responsibility Act.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 148-20 — NC Code / Chapter 148 / Section 148-20
§ 148-20. Corporal punishment of prisoners prohibited
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for the Secretary of the Department of Adult Correction or any other person having the care, custody, or control of any prisoner in this State to make or enforce any rule or regulation providing for the whipping, flogging, or administration of any similar corporal punishment of any prisoner, or to give any specific order for or cause to be administered or personally to administer or inflict any such corporal punishment.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-124 — NC Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14-124
§ 14-124. Forging certificate of corporate stock and uttering forged certificates
Status: reserved

If any officer or agent of a corporation shall, falsely and with a fraudulent purpose, make, with the intent that the same shall be issued and delivered to any other person by name or as holder or bearer thereof, any certificate or other writing, whereby it is certified or declared that such person, holder or bearer is entitled to or has an interest in the stock of such corporation, when in fact such person, holder or bearer is not so entitled, or is not entitled to the amount of stock in such certificate or writing specified; or if any officer or agent of such corporation, or other person, knowing such certificate or other writing to be false or untrue, shall transfer, assign or deliver the same to another person, for the sake of gain, or with the intent to defraud the corporation, or any member thereof, or such person to whom the same shall be transferred, assigned or delivered, the person so offending shall be punished as a Class I felon.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 53-224-16 — NC Code / Chapter 53 / Section 53-224-16
§ 53-224.16. Powers
Status: in_force

(a) An out-of-state state bank which establishes and maintains one or more branches in North Carolina under this Article may conduct any activities at such branch or branches that are authorized under the laws of this State for North Carolina State banks, except to the extent such activities may be prohibited by other laws, regulations, or orders applicable to the out-of-state state bank.

(b) A North Carolina State bank may conduct any activities at a branch outside of North Carolina that are permissible for a bank chartered by the host state where the branch is located, except to the extent such activities are expressly prohibited by the laws of this State or by any regulation or order of the Commissioner applicable to the North Carolina State bank.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-30-100 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-30-100
§ 58-30-100. Grounds for liquidation
Status: in_force

The Commissioner may petition the Court for an order directing him to liquidate a domestic insurer or an alien insurer domiciled in this State on the basis:

(1) Of any ground for an order of rehabilitation as specified in G.S. 58-30-75 , whether or not there has been a prior order directing the rehabilitation of the insurer;

(2) That the insurer is insolvent; or

(3) That the insurer is in such condition that the further transaction of business would be hazardous, financially or otherwise, to its policyholders, its creditors, or the public.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-36-50 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-36-50
§ 58-36-50. Limitation
Status: in_force

Nothing in this Article shall apply to any town or county farmers mutual fire insurance association restricting its operations to not more than six adjacent counties in this State, or to domestic insurance companies, associations, orders or fraternal benefit societies now doing business in this State on the assessment plan.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 87-15-5 — NC Code / Chapter 87 / Section 87-15-5
§ 87-15.5. Definitions
Status: in_force

The following definitions apply in this Article:

(1) Applicant.--The owner or former owner of a single-family residential dwelling unit who has suffered a reimbursable loss and has filed an application for reimbursement from the Fund.

(2) Board.--The State Licensing Board for General Contractors.

(3) Dishonest conduct.--Fraud or deceit in either of the following:

a. Obtaining a license under Article 1 of Chapter 87 of the General Statutes .

b. The practice of general contracting by a general contractor.

(4) Fund.--The Homeowners Recovery Fund.

(5) General contractor.--A person or other entity who meets any of the following descriptions:

a. Is licensed under Article 1 of Chapter 87 of the General Statutes .

b. Fraudulently procures any building permit by presenting the license certificate of a general contractor.

c. Fraudulently procures any building permit by falsely impersonating a licensed general contractor.

(6) Reimbursable loss.--A monetary loss that meets all of the following requirements:

a. Results from dishonest or incompetent conduct by a general contractor in constructing or altering a single-family residential dwelling unit.

b. Is not paid, in whole or in part, by or on behalf of the general contractor whose conduct caused the loss.

c. Is not covered by a bond, a surety agreement, or an insurance contract.

(7) Single-family residential dwelling unit.--A separately owned residence for use of one or more persons as a housekeeping unit with space for eating, living, and permanent provisions for cooking and sanitation, whether or not attached to other such residences.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55A-6-20 — NC Code / Chapter 55A / Section 55A-6-20
§ 55A-6-20. Designations, qualifications, rights, and obligations of members
Status: in_force

If a corporation has members, the designations, qualifications, rights, and obligations of members shall be set forth in or authorized by the articles of incorporation or bylaws, and may include any provisions not inconsistent with law or the articles of incorporation with respect to:

(1) Conditions of admission and membership;

(2) Voting rights and the manner of exercising voting rights;

(3) The relative rights and obligations of members among themselves, to the corporation, and with respect to the property of the corporation;

(4) The manner of terminating membership in the corporation;

(5) The rights and obligations of the members and the corporation upon such termination;

(6) The transferability or nontransferability of memberships; and

(7) Any other matters.

Except as otherwise provided in or authorized by the articles of incorporation or bylaws, all members shall have the same designations, qualifications, rights, and obligations.