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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-33-66 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-33-66
§ 58-33-66. Temporary licensing
Status: in_force

(a) The Commissioner may issue a temporary insurance producer license for a period not to exceed 180 days or longer, for good cause, without requiring an examination if the Commissioner deems that the temporary license is necessary for the servicing of an insurance business in any of the following cases:

(1) To the spouse or surviving spouse or court-appointed personal representative or guardian of a licensed insurance producer who dies or becomes mentally or physically disabled to allow adequate time for the transfer of the insurance business owned by the producer, for the recovery or return of the producer to the business, or for the training and licensing of new personnel to operate the producer's business.

(2) To a member or employee of a business entity licensed as an insurance producer, upon the death or disability of an individual designated in the business entity application or the license.

(3) To the designee of a licensed insurance producer entering active service in the Armed Forces of the United States.

(4) In any other circumstance where the Commissioner deems that the public interest will be served best by the issuance of this license.

(b) The Commissioner may by order limit the authority of any temporary licensee in any way deemed necessary to protect insureds and the public. The Commissioner may require the temporary licensee to have a suitable sponsor who is a licensed producer or insurer and who assumes responsibility for all acts of the temporary licensee and may impose other similar requirements designed to protect insureds and the public. The Commissioner may by order revoke a temporary license if the interest of insureds or the public are endangered. A temporary license terminates upon the transfer of the business.

(c) An individual requesting a temporary license on account of death or disability of a licensed insurance producer shall be licensed to represent only those insurers that had appointed such insurance producer at the time of death or commencement of disability.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-180 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-180
§ 160A-180. Regulation of aircraft overflights
Status: in_force

A city may by ordinance regulate the operation of aircraft over the city.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-30-300 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-30-300
§ 58-30-300. Interstate priorities
Status: in_force

(a) In a liquidation proceeding in this State involving one or more reciprocal states, the order of distribution of the domiciliary state shall control as to all claims of residents of this and reciprocal states. All claims of residents of reciprocal states shall be given equal priority of payment from general assets regardless of where such assets are located.

(b) The owners of special deposit claims against an insurer for which a liquidator is appointed in this or any other state shall be given priority against the special deposits in accordance with the statutes governing the creation and maintenance of the deposits. If there is a deficiency in any deposit, so that the claims secured by it are not fully discharged from it, the claimants may share in the general assets, but the sharing shall be deferred until general creditors, and also claimants against other special deposits who have received smaller percentages from their respective special deposits, have been paid percentages of their claims equal to the percentage paid from the special deposit.

(c) The owner of a secured claim against an insurer for which a liquidator has been appointed in this or any other state may surrender the owner's security and file the claim as a general creditor, or the claim may be discharged by resort to the security in accordance with G.S. 58-30-215 in which case the deficiency, if any, shall be treated as a claim against the general assets of the insurer on the same basis as claims of unsecured creditors.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-187-3 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-187-3
§ 90-187.3. Applicants licensed in other states
Status: reserved

(a) The Board may issue a license without written examination, other than the written North Carolina license examination, to applicants already licensed in another state provided the applicant presents evidence satisfactory to the Board that:

(1) The applicant is currently an active, competent practitioner in good standing.

(2) The applicant has practiced at least three of the five years immediately preceding filing the application.

(3) The applicant currently holds an active license in another state.

(4) There is no disciplinary proceeding or unresolved complaint pending against the applicant at the time a license is to be issued by this State.

(4a) Any disciplinary actions taken against the applicant or his or her license by the other state in which he or she is licensed will not affect the applicant's competency to practice veterinary medicine as provided in this Article or any rules adopted by the Board.

(5) The licensure requirements in the other state are substantially equivalent to those required by this State.

(6) The applicant has achieved a passing score on the written North Carolina license examination.

(a1) Expired pursuant to S.L. 1999-203, § 3, eff. July 1, 2001 .

(b) The Board may issue a license without a written examination, other than the written North Carolina license examination, to an applicant who meets the requirements of G.S. 90-187(c) .

(c) The Board may at its discretion orally or practically examine any person qualifying for licensure under this section, by administering a nationally recognized clinical competency test as well as the North Carolina license examination.

(d) The Board may issue a limited license to practice veterinary medicine to an applicant who is not otherwise eligible for a license to practice veterinary medicine under this Article, without examination, if the applicant meets the criteria established in subdivisions (1) through (6) of subsection (a) of this section.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-544 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-544
§ 106-544. Shipments from out of State
Status: in_force

All baby chicks, turkey poults and hatching eggs shipped or otherwise brought into this State shall originate in flocks that meet the minimum requirements of pullorum and typhoid disease control provided for in this Article and the regulations issued by authority of this Article, and shall be accompanied by a certificate approved by the official state agency or the livestock sanitary officials of the state of origin certifying same.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-1025 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-1025
§ 106-1025. Short title
Status: in_force

This Article shall be known as the Primary Forest Product Assessment Act.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 158-10 — NC Code / Chapter 158 / Section 158-10
§ 158-10. Staff and personnel; contracts for services
Status: in_force

Within the limits of appropriated funds, the commission may hire and fix the compensation of any personnel necessary to its operations, contract with consultants for such services as it may require, and contract with the State of North Carolina or the federal government, or any agency or department thereof, for such services as may be provided by such agencies; and it is hereby empowered to carry out the provisions of such contracts as it may enter.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 111-47-1 — NC Code / Chapter 111 / Section 111-47-1
§ 111-47.1. Food service at North Carolina aquariums
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding this Article, the North Carolina Aquariums may operate or contract for the operation of food or vending services at the North Carolina Aquariums. Notwithstanding G.S. 111-43 , the net proceeds of revenue generated by food and vending services that are provided at the North Carolina Aquariums and are operated by or whose operation is contracted for by the Division of North Carolina Aquariums shall be credited to the North Carolina Aquariums Fund.

(b) This section shall not be construed to alter any contract for food or vending services at the North Carolina Aquariums that is in force on July 1, 1999.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-289-51 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-289-51
§ 143B-289.51. Marine Fisheries Commission--creation; purposes
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby created the Marine Fisheries Commission in the Department of Environmental Quality.

(b) The functions, purposes, and duties of the Marine Fisheries Commission are to:

(1) Manage, restore, develop, cultivate, conserve, protect, and regulate the marine and estuarine resources within its jurisdiction, as described in G.S. 113-132 .

(2) Implement the laws relating to coastal fisheries, coastal fishing, shellfish, crustaceans, and other marine and estuarine resources enacted by the General Assembly by the adoption of rules and policies, to provide a sound, constructive, comprehensive, continuing, and economical coastal fisheries program directed by citizens who are knowledgeable in the protection, restoration, proper use, and management of marine and estuarine resources.

(3) Implement management measures regarding ocean and marine fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean consistent with the authority conferred on the State by the United States.

(4) Advise the State regarding ocean and marine fisheries within the jurisdiction of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, and other similar organizations established to manage or regulate fishing in the Atlantic Ocean.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-2-2 — NC Code / Chapter 160B / Section 160B-2-2
§ 160B-2.2. Dissolution of consolidated city-county; establishment of study commission; purposes and powers of study commission
Status: in_force

(a) The governing board of a consolidated city-county may by resolution establish a governmental study commission to study all matters pertaining to the dissolution of the consolidated city-county and reestablishment of separate city and county government. The study commission may:

(1) Prepare a report of its findings and conclusions.

(2) Prepare drafts of any agreements or legislation necessary to effect the dissolution of a consolidated city-county.

(3) Prepare a plan for dissolution of the consolidated city-county.

(b) A study commission established pursuant to this section may:

(1) Adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of its business.

(2) Employ personnel.

(3) Contract with consultants.

(4) Hold hearings in the furtherance of its business.

(5) Take any other action necessary or expedient to the furtherance of its business.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-550 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-550
§ 115C-550. High school competency testing
Status: in_force

To assure that all high school graduates possess those minimum skills and that knowledge thought necessary to function in society, each private church school or school of religious charter shall administer at least once in each school year, a nationally standardized test or other nationally standardized equivalent measure selected by the chief administrative officer of such school, to all students enrolled and regularly attending the eleventh grade. The nationally standardized test or other equivalent measurement selected must measure competencies in the verbal and quantitative areas. Each private church school or school of religious charter shall establish a minimum score which must be attained by a student on the selected test in order to be graduated from high school. For one year after the testing, all records shall be made available, subject to G.S. 115C-174.13 , at the principal office of such school, at all reasonable times, for annual inspection by a duly authorized representative of the State of North Carolina.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-908 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-908
§ 15A-908. Regulation of discovery--Protective orders
Status: reserved

(a) Upon written motion of a party and a finding of good cause, which may include, but is not limited to a finding that there is a substantial risk to any person of physical harm, intimidation, bribery, economic reprisals, or unnecessary annoyance or embarrassment, the court may at any time order that discovery or inspection be denied, restricted, or deferred, or may make other appropriate orders. A party may apply ex parte for a protective order and, if an ex parte order is granted, the opposing party shall receive notice that the order was entered, but without disclosure of the subject matter of the order.

(b) The court may permit a party seeking relief under subsection (a) to submit supporting affidavits or statements to the court for in camera inspection. If thereafter the court enters an order granting relief under subsection (a), the material submitted in camera must be sealed and preserved in the records of the court to be made available to the appellate court in the event of an appeal.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-2A-305 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-2A-305
§ 25-2A-305. Sale or sublease of goods by lessee
Status: reserved

(1) Subject to the provisions of G.S. 25-2A-303 , a buyer or sublessee from the lessee of goods under an existing lease contract obtains, to the extent of the interest transferred, the leasehold interest in the goods that the lessee had or had power to transfer, and except as provided in subsection (2) of this section and G.S. 25-2A-511(4) , takes subject to the existing lease contract. A lessee with a voidable leasehold interest has power to transfer a good leasehold interest to a good faith buyer for value or a good faith sublessee for value, but only to the extent set forth in the preceding sentence. When goods have been delivered under a transaction of lease, the lessee has that power even though:

(a) the lessor was deceived as to the identity of the lessee;

(b) the delivery was in exchange for a check which is later dishonored; or

(c) the delivery was procured through fraud punishable as larcenous under the criminal law.

(2) A buyer in the ordinary course of business or a sublessee in the ordinary course of business from a lessee who is a merchant dealing in goods of that kind to whom the goods were entrusted by the lessor obtains, to the extent of the interest transferred, all of the lessor's and lessee's rights to the goods, and takes free of the existing lease contract.

(3) A buyer or sublessee from the lessee of goods that are subject to an existing lease contract and are covered by a certificate of title issued under a statute of this State or of another jurisdiction takes no greater rights than those provided both by this section and by the certificate of title statute.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 162A-37 — NC Code / Chapter 162A / Section 162A-37
§ 162A-37. Bonds and notes authorized
Status: in_force

A metropolitan water district may from time to time issue bonds and notes under the Local Government Finance Act.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 44A-1 — NC Code / Chapter 44A / Section 44A-1
§ 44A-1. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Article:

(1) “Legal possessor” means

a. Any person entrusted with possession of personal property by an owner thereof, or

b. Any person in possession of personal property and entitled thereto by operation of law.

(2) “Lienor” means any person entitled to a lien under this Article.

(2a) “Motor Vehicle” has the meaning provided in G.S. 20-4.01 .

(3) “Owner” means

a. Any person having legal title to the property, or

b. A lessee of the person having legal title, or

c. A debtor entrusted with possession of the property by a secured party, or

d. A secured party entitled to possession, or

e. Any person entrusted with possession of the property by his employer or principal who is an owner under any of the above.

(4) “Secured party” means a person holding a security interest.

(5) “Security interest” means any interest in personal property which interest is subject to the provisions of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code , or any other interest intended to create security in real or personal property.

(6) “Vessel” has the meaning provided in G.S. 75A-2 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-113-37B — NC Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105-113-37B
§ 105-113.37B. Non-tax-paid products
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this Part, a licensed wholesale dealer may not sell, borrow, loan, or exchange non-tax-paid tobacco products to, from, or with another licensed wholesale dealer, and an integrated wholesale dealer may not sell, borrow, loan, or exchange non-tax-paid tobacco products to, from, or with another integrated wholesale dealer.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 122D-11 — NC Code / Chapter 122D / Section 122D-11
§ 122D-11. Statutory pledge
Status: in_force

Any pledge made by the Authority shall be valid and binding from time to time when the pledge is made. The money, assets or revenues of the Authority so pledged and thereafter received by the Authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the Authority, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor any other instrument by which a pledge is created need be recorded or filed in order to establish and perfect a lien or security interest in the property so pledged by the Authority. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the Authority from selling any assets subject to any such pledge except to the extent that any such sale may be restricted by the trust agreement or resolution providing for the issuance of such obligations.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-279-1 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-279-1
§ 1-279.1. Manner and time for giving notice of appeal to appellate division in civil actions and in special proceedings
Status: in_force

Any party entitled by law to appeal from a judgment or order rendered by a judge in superior or district court in a civil action or in a special proceeding may take appeal by giving notice of appeal within the time, in the manner, and with the effect provided in the rules of appellate procedure.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 53-232-3 — NC Code / Chapter 53 / Section 53-232-3
§ 53-232.3. Authority to establish and operate federal international bank institutions, international bank branches, international bank agencies, and international representative offices
Status: in_force

(a) An international banking corporation with a home state other than North Carolina may establish and operate, directly or indirectly, a federal international bank institution in this State in accordance with applicable federal law.

(b) An international banking corporation with no home state may establish and operate, directly or indirectly, a federal international bank institution in this State in accordance with applicable federal law.

(c) An international banking corporation with a home state other than North Carolina may establish and operate, directly or indirectly, an international bank branch, an international bank agency, or an international representative office in accordance with this Article and applicable federal law.

(d) An international banking corporation with no home state may establish and operate, directly or indirectly, an international bank branch, an international bank agency, or an international representative office in accordance with this Article and applicable federal law.

(e) For the purposes of this section, the home state of an international banking corporation that has branches, agencies, subsidiary commercial lending companies, or subsidiary banks, or any combination of branches, agencies, subsidiary commercial lending companies, or subsidiary banks in more than one state is whichever of the states is so elected by the international banking corporation. If the international banking corporation does not elect a home state, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Commissioner, as applicable, shall elect the home state.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 117-29 — NC Code / Chapter 117 / Section 117-29
§ 117-29. Assistance from Rural Electrification Authority in procuring adequate telephone service
Status: in_force

Any number of persons residing in any rural community who are not provided with telephone service or are inadequately provided with same, may make application to the Rural Electrification Authority, upon such form as may be provided by the Rural Electrification Authority for assistance in securing telephone service, showing the circumstances of such community or communities with regard to telephone service and the need therefor. The Rural Electrification Authority shall make an investigation of the situation with respect to telephone service in such rural community or communities and if, upon investigation, it appears that such community or communities are not served with needed telephones or are inadequately served, the facts with reference thereto shall be collected by the Rural Electrification Authority and the Rural Electrification Authority shall promptly bring these facts to the attention of any telephone company serving the area, and shall make reasonable efforts to get such telephone company to provide the needed telephone service in such community or communities.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 57D-9-22 — NC Code / Chapter 57D / Section 57D-9-22
§ 57D-9-22. Filing of articles of organization and conversion by the converting entity
Status: in_force

(a) After a plan of conversion has been approved by the converting entity as provided in G.S. 57D-9-21 , the converting entity shall deliver articles of organization and conversion to the Secretary of State for filing. The articles of organization and conversion must contain (i) the information required by G.S. 57D-2-21 and (ii) the following information:

(1) The name, type of entity, and jurisdiction whose law governs the organization and internal affairs of the converting entity immediately before the conversion.

(2) A statement that the articles of organization and conversion are being submitted for the purpose of converting the eligible entity into an LLC.

(3) The name the entity will have when the conversion becomes effective.

(4) The mailing address of the converting entity immediately before the conversion and, if different, the mailing address it will have when the conversion becomes effective.

(5) A statement that a plan of conversion has been approved by the converting entity as required by law.

(b) If the plan of conversion is abandoned after the articles of organization and conversion have been delivered to the Secretary of State but before the articles of organization and conversion become effective, the converting entity must deliver to the Secretary of State for filing prior to the time the articles of organization and conversion become effective an amendment withdrawing such articles.

(c) Certificates of conversion must be registered as provided in G.S. 47-18.1 .