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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-277-20 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-277-20
§ 106-277.20. Right of entry for purposes of inspection; duty of vendors
Status: in_force

For the purpose of carrying out this Article the Commissioner or his agent is authorized to enter upon any public or private premises during regular business hours in order to have access to seeds subject to this Article and the rules and regulations thereunder. It shall be the duty of the dealer or vendor to arrange seed lots so as to be accessible for inspection, and to provide such information and records as may be deemed necessary.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 35A-1212-1 — NC Code / Chapter 35A / Section 35A-1212-1
§ 35A-1212.1. Recommendation of appointment of guardian by will or other writing
Status: in_force

Any parent may by will recommend appointment of a guardian for an unmarried child who has been adjudicated an incompetent person and specify desired limitations on the powers to be given to the guardian. If both parents make such recommendations, the will with the latest date shall, in the absence of other relevant factors, prevail. Such recommendation shall be a strong guide for the clerk in appointing a guardian, but the clerk is not bound by the recommendation if the clerk finds that a different appointment is in the incompetent adult's best interest. If the will specifically so directs, a guardian appointed pursuant to such recommendation may be permitted to qualify and serve without giving bond, unless the clerk finds as a fact that the interest of the incompetent adult would be best served by requiring the guardian to give bond.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58-63 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-58-63
§ 160A-58.63. Population and land estimates
Status: in_force

In determining population and degree of land subdivision for purposes of meeting the requirements of G.S. 160A-58.54 , the municipality shall use methods calculated to provide reasonably accurate results. In determining whether the standards set forth in G.S. 160A-58.54 have been met on appeal to the superior court under G.S. 160A-58.60 , the reviewing court shall accept the estimates of the municipality unless the actual population, total area, or degree of land subdivision falls below the standards in G.S. 160A-58.54 :

(1) As to population, if the estimate is based on the number of dwelling units in the area multiplied by the average family size in such area, or in the township or townships of which such area is a part, as determined by the last preceding federal decennial census; or if it is based on a new enumeration carried out under reasonable rules and regulations by the annexing municipality; provided, that the court shall not accept such estimates if the petitioners demonstrate that such estimates are in error in the amount of ten percent (10%) or more.

(2) As to total area, if the estimate is based on an actual survey, or on county tax maps or records, or on aerial photographs, or on some other reasonably reliable map used for official purposes by a governmental agency, unless the petitioners on appeal demonstrate that such estimates are in error in the amount of five percent (5%) or more.

(3) As to degree of land subdivision, if the estimates are based on an actual survey, or on county tax maps or records, or on aerial photographs, or on some other reasonably reliable source, unless the petitioners on appeal show that such estimates are in error in the amount of five percent (5%) or more.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 85B-4-2 — NC Code / Chapter 85B / Section 85B-4-2
§ 85B-4.2. Grounds for payment; notice and application to Commission
Status: in_force

An aggrieved person who has suffered a monetary loss as a direct result of the conversion of funds or property or other fraudulent act or conduct by a licensed auctioneer, apprentice auctioneer, or auction firm shall be eligible to seek compensation from the Fund subject to the limitations of this Chapter and the amount of loss which is otherwise unrecoverable provided that:

(1) The aggrieved person has sued the licensee in a court of competent jurisdiction and has filed with the Commission written notice of such lawsuit within 60 days after its commencement unless the total loss claimed excluding attorneys' fees is less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), in which case the notice may be filed within 90 days after the termination of all judicial proceedings, including appeals;

(2) The aggrieved person has obtained final judgment in a court of competent jurisdiction against the licensee based upon conversion or other fraudulent conduct arising out of a transaction which occurred when the licensee was licensed by the Commission and was acting in a capacity for which a North Carolina license is required, which judgment shall show the amount owed the aggrieved person;

(3) The aggrieved person was not engaged in any act or conduct for which an auctioneer license is required and was not acting in violation of any of the laws of the State of North Carolina or of the United States; and

(4) Execution on the judgment has been issued and has been returned unsatisfied in whole or in part.

Upon the termination of all judicial proceedings including appeals, and for a period of one year thereafter, a person eligible for recovery may file a verified application with the Commission for payment out of the Fund of the amount remaining unpaid upon the judgment which represents the actual and direct loss sustained by reason of conversion or other fraudulent conduct. A certified copy of the judgment and return of execution shall be attached to the application and filed with the Commission. The applicant shall serve upon the judgment debtor a copy of the application and shall file with the Commission an affidavit or certificate of service, in accordance with the procedures specified by rule by the Commission.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-503-1 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-503-1
§ 106-503.1. Board authorized to construct and finance facilities and improvements for fair
Status: in_force

(a) Borrowing Money and Issuing Bonds.--For the purpose of building, enlarging and improving the facilities on the properties of the State fair, the State Board of Agriculture is hereby empowered and authorized to borrow a sum of money not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), and to issue revenue bonds therefor, payable in series at such time or times and bearing such rate of interest as may be fixed by the Governor and Council of State: Provided, that no part of the payments of the principal or interest charges on said loan shall be made out of the general revenue of the State of North Carolina, and the credit of the State of North Carolina and the State Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services or the agricultural fund, other than the revenue of the State fair funds, shall not be pledged either directly or indirectly for the payment of said principal or interest charges. The receipts, funds, and any other State fair assets may be pledged as security for the payment of any bonds that may be issued.

(b) Contracts and Leases; Pledge of Gate Receipts, etc.--For the further purpose of acquiring, constructing, operating and financing said properties and facilities on the North Carolina State fairgrounds, the Board of Agriculture may enter into such agreements, contracts and leases as may be necessary for the purpose of this section, and may pledge, appropriate, and pay such sums out of the gate receipts or other revenues coming to the State Board of Agriculture from the operation of any facilities of the State fair as may be required to secure, repay, or meet the principal and interest charges on the loan herein authorized. Prior to execution, the Board of Agriculture shall consult with the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations on all agreements, contracts, and leases authorized under this subsection. The preceding sentence applies only to agreements, contracts, and leases with an estimated revenue to the State of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or more.

(c) Gifts and Endowments.--The State Board of Agriculture may receive gifts and endowments, whether real estate, moneys, goods or chattels, given or bestowed upon or conveyed to them for the benefit of the State fair, and the same shall be administered in accordance with the requirements of the donors.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-52-25 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-52-25
§ 58-52-25. No additional licensing required
Status: in_force

Accident and health insurance authorized by this Article and offered by or through an association formed for the purpose of this Article may be solicited and offered directly by such association, any insurer member of such association, and by or through any person authorized by the Department to sell accident and health insurance in this State, without any additional license being required.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 66-406 — NC Code / Chapter 66 / Section 66-406
§ 66-406. Definitions
Status: in_force

The following definitions apply in this Part:

(1) Dealer .--A person who purchases precious metals from the public, other than by an exempted transaction, in the form of jewelry, flatware, silver services, or other forms and holds himself or herself out to the public by signs, advertising, or other methods as engaging in such purchases, including any independent contractor purchasing precious metals under any arrangement in any department store. An exempted transaction is one that is (i) not considered in determining whether a person is a dealer under this Part and (ii) not subject to the requirements of this Part, even if it is entered into by a person otherwise defined and regulated as a dealer. Exempted transactions are:

a. Purchases directly from manufacturers or wholesalers of precious metals by permanently located retail merchants for their inventories.

b. Pawns, pledges, or purchases of items made of precious metals, if the transaction is entered into by a licensed pawnbroker and the transaction is regulated under the provisions of Part 1 of this Article.

c. The acquisition of precious metals by a permanently located retail merchant through barter or exchange for other items sold in the ordinary course of the merchant's business, provided that the seller does not receive, as part of the transaction, any sum of money or any gift card or stored-value card, unless the card is redeemable only at that merchant's business.

(2) Local law enforcement agency .--The term means the following, as applicable:

a. The county police force, if the dealer's business is located within a county with a county police force and outside the corporate limits of a municipality.

b. The municipal police force, if the dealer's business is located within the corporate limits of a municipality having a police force.

c. The county sheriff's office of the county in which the dealer's business is located, if neither sub-subdivision a. nor b. of this subdivision applies.

(3) Precious metal .--Gold, silver, platinum, or palladium, as defined below, but excluding coins, medals, medallions, tokens, numismatic items, art ingots, or art bars.

a. Gold .--Any item or article containing 10 karats of gold or more which may be in combination or alloy with any other metal.

b. Silver .--Any item or article containing 925 parts per thousand of silver which may be in combination or alloy with any nonprecious metal or which is marked “sterling”.

c. Platinum .--Any item or article containing 900 parts per thousand or more of platinum which may be in combination or alloy with any other metal.

d. Palladium .--Any item or article containing 950 parts per thousand or more of palladium which may be in combination or alloy with any other metal.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-33-83 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-33-83
§ 58-33-83. Assumed names
Status: in_force

An insurance producer doing business under any name other than the producer's legal name shall notify the Commissioner before using the assumed name.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 81A-50-1 — NC Code / Chapter 81A / Section 81A-50-1
§ 81A-50.1. Purpose
Status: in_force

This Article licenses and regulates public weighmasters in order to ensure accurate quantities of products upon sale to purchasers.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 41-13 — NC Code / Chapter 41 / Section 41-13
§ 41-13. Freeholders in petition for special taxes defined
Status: in_force

In all cases where a petition by a specific number of freeholders is required as a condition precedent to ordering an election to provide for the assessment or levy of taxes upon realty, all residents of legal age owning realty for life or longer term, irrespective of sex, shall be deemed freeholders within the meaning of such requirement.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 113-336 — NC Code / Chapter 113 / Section 113-336
§ 113-336. Powers and duties of the Advisory Committee
Status: in_force

The Advisory Committee shall have the following powers and duties:

(1) To gather and provide information and data and advise the Wildlife Resources Commission with respect to all aspects of the biology and ecology of endangered, threatened, and special concern species;

(2) To investigate and make recommendations to the Commission as to the status of endangered, threatened, and special concern species;

(3) To identify and assemble experts from the disciplines of ornithology, mammalogy, herpetology, ichthyology, taxonomy, ecology and other fields as necessary to serve as the Scientific Council and to charge the Scientific Council to review the scientific evidence, to evaluate the status of candidate species, and to report back their findings with recommendations;

(4) To develop and present to the Commission management and conservation practices for preserving endangered, threatened, and special concern species;

(5) To recommend critical habitat areas for protection or acquisition;

(5a) To assist the Commission in developing conservation plans for the recovery of protected wild animal species, including establishing a priority order for conservation plans and determining where groups of protected species exist in shared habitats that may be addressed jointly in combined conservation plans;

(6) To advise the Commission on matters submitted to it by the Commission which involve technical zoological questions or the development of pertinent regulations, and to make any recommendations as deemed by the Advisory Committee to be worthy of the Commission's attention.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 74G-10 — NC Code / Chapter 74G / Section 74G-10
§ 74G-10. Expiration, renewal, and termination of agency certification or officer commission
Status: in_force

(a) Agency.--Unless sooner suspended or revoked by the Attorney General, a campus police agency's certification expires on June 30 of the calendar year following the date it is issued. A campus police agency may renew the certification upon payment of the appropriate fee and compliance with this Chapter and the rules adopted under this Chapter. An entity whose campus police agency's certification was denied or revoked for a violation of this Chapter or a rule adopted under this Chapter is not eligible to apply again for that certification for three years.

(b) Officer.--Unless sooner suspended or revoked by the Attorney General, a campus police officer's commission expires on June 30 of the calendar year following the date it is issued. A campus police officer may renew a commission upon payment of the appropriate fee and compliance with this Chapter and the rules adopted under this Chapter. The Attorney General shall immediately revoke the commission of a campus police officer when any of the following occurs:

(1) Termination of employment with the campus police agency for which the officer is commissioned.

(2) Termination, suspension, or revocation of the certification of the campus police agency for which the officer is commissioned.

(3) Failure to meet in-service training requirements as required by this Chapter or the rules adopted under this Chapter.

(4) Violation of this Chapter or a rule adopted under this Chapter.

An individual whose campus police officer's commission was denied or revoked for a violation of this Chapter or a rule adopted under this Chapter is not eligible to apply again for a commission for three years.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-59-20 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-59-20
§ 58-59-20. Registered policies certified
Status: in_force

After making the deposits provided for in this Article no company may issue a policy of insurance or endowment or an annuity bond known or designated as “registered” unless it has upon its face a certificate in the following words: “This policy or annuity bond is registered and secured by pledge of bonds, stocks, or securities deposited with this Department as provided by law,” which certificate shall be signed by the Commissioner and sealed with the seal of his office. Such policies and bonds shall be known as “registered” policies and annuity bonds, and a sample copy of such kind, class, and issue shall be kept in the office of the Commissioner. All policies and bonds of each kind and class issued, and the copies thereof, filed in the office of the Commissioner must have imprinted thereon some appropriate designating letter, combination of letters or terms identifying the special forms of contract, together with the year of adoption of such form, and whenever any change or modification is made in the form of contracts, policy, or bond, the designating letters or terms and year of adoption thereon shall be changed accordingly.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 113B-23 — NC Code / Chapter 113B / Section 113B-23
§ 113B-23. Administration of plans and procedures
Status: in_force

(a) Upon the declaration of an energy crisis, pursuant to G.S. 113B-20 , the Energy Policy Council shall become the emergency energy coordinating body for the State and shall carry out the following duties:

(1) Identify and determine the nature and severity of expected energy shortages;

(2) Provide for daily communications with and gather information from significant energy producers, distributors, transporters and major consumers, as determined by the Energy Policy Council, to carry out its responsibilities pursuant to this section;

(3) Provide data, carry out continuing assessments of the crisis situation, and make recommendations to the Governor and to the Legislative Committee on Energy Crisis Management for further action.

(b) Upon the declaration of an energy crisis, the Governor shall order the Energy Policy Council, the Utilities Commission, the Attorney General and other appropriate State and local agencies to implement and enforce the Emergency Energy Program pursuant to G.S. 113B-9 and any emergency rules, orders or regulations approved pursuant to G.S. 113B-22 .

(c) Upon the declaration of an energy crisis, the Governor may employ such measures and give such direction to State and local offices and agencies as may be reasonable and necessary for the purpose of securing compliance with the provisions of this Article and with emergency rules, orders and regulations issued pursuant to G.S. 113B-22 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-178-1 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-178-1
§ 90-178.1. Title
Status: in_force

This Article shall be known and may be cited as the Midwifery Practice Act.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-1-307 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-1-307
§ 25-1-307. Prima facie evidence by third-party documents
Status: in_force

A document in due form purporting to be a bill of lading, policy or certificate of insurance, official weigher's or inspector's certificate, consular invoice, or any other document authorized or required by the contract to be issued by a third party is prima facie evidence of its own authenticity and genuineness and of the facts stated in the document by the third party.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-321 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-321
§ 1-321. Entry of returns on judgment docket; penalty
Status: in_force

When an execution is returned, the return of the sheriff or other officer must be noted by the clerk on the judgment docket; and when it is returned wholly or partially satisfied, it is the duty of the clerk of the court to which it is returned to send a copy of such last-mentioned return, under his hand, to the clerk of the superior court of each county in which such judgment is docketed, who must note such copy in his judgment docket, opposite the judgment, and file the copy with the transcript of the docket of the judgment in his office. A clerk failing to send a copy of the payments on the execution or judgment to the clerks of the superior court of the counties wherein a transcript of the judgment has been docketed, and a clerk failing to note said payment on the judgment docket of his court, shall, on motion, be fined one hundred dollars ($100.00) nisi, and the judgment shall be made absolute upon notice to show cause at the succeeding session of the superior court of his county.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-10 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-10
§ 130A-10. Advisory Committees
Status: in_force

The Secretary is authorized to establish and appoint as many special advisory committees as may be necessary to advise and confer with the Department concerning the public health. Members of any special advisory committee shall serve without compensation but may be allowed travel and subsistence expenses in accordance with G.S. 138-6 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 111-15 — NC Code / Chapter 111 / Section 111-15
§ 111-15. Eligibility for relief
Status: reserved

Blind persons having the following qualifications shall be eligible for relief under the provisions of this Article:

(1) Repealed by S.L. 2000-121, § 13, eff. July 14, 2000 .

(2) Who are unable to provide for themselves the necessities of life and who have insufficient means for their own support and who have no relative or relatives or other persons in this State able to provide for them who are legally responsible for their maintenance; and

(3) Who, at the time his application is filed, is living in the State of North Carolina voluntarily with the intention of making his home in the State and not for a temporary purpose. [and]

(4) Who are not inmates of any charitable or correctional institution of this State or of any county or city thereof: Provided, that an inmate of such charitable institution may be granted a benefit in order to enable such person to maintain himself or herself outside of an institution; and

(5) Who are not, because of physical or mental condition, in need of continuing institutional care. Provided, that the State agency shall, in determining need, take into consideration any other income and resources of the individual claiming aid to the blind; except that, in making such determination, the State agency shall disregard such earned income as will enable said agency to receive the maximum grants from the federal government for such purpose.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-49 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-49
§ 130A-49. Declaration that district exists; status of industrial villages within boundaries of district
Status: in_force

(a) If, after the required public hearing, the Commission and the county commissioners determine that a district shall be created for the purposes stated in the petition, the Commission shall adopt a resolution defining the boundaries of the district and declaring the territory within the boundaries to be a sanitary district. The Commission may make minor deviation in defining the boundaries from those prescribed in the petition when it determines the change to be in the interest of the public health.

(b) The owner or controller of an industrial plant may make application requesting that the plant or the plant and its contiguous village be included within or excluded from the sanitary district. The application shall be filed with the Commission on or before the date of the public hearing. If an application is properly filed, the Commission shall include or exclude the industrial plant and contiguous village in accordance with the application.

(c) Each district when created shall be identified by a name or number assigned by the Commission.