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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-34 — NC Code / Chapter 50 / Section 50-34
§ 50-34. Establishment of an expedited process
Status: in_force

(a) Districts Required to Have Expedited Process.--In any district court district as defined in G.S. 7A-133 that is required by G.S. 50-33(b) to establish an expedited child support process, the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts shall notify the chief district court judge and the clerk or clerks of superior court in the district in writing of the requirement. The Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, the chief district court judge, and the clerk or clerks of superior court in the district shall implement an expedited child support process as provided in this section.

(b) Procedure for Establishing Expedited Process.--When a district court district as defined in G.S. 7A-133 is required to implement an expedited process, the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, the chief district judge, and the clerk of superior court in an affected county shall determine by agreement whether the child support hearing officer or officers for that county shall be one or more clerks or one or more magistrates. If such agreement has not been reached within 15 days after the notice required by subsection (a) when implementation is required, the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts shall make the decision. If it is decided that the hearing officer or officers for a county shall be magistrates, the chief district judge, the clerk of superior court, and the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts shall ensure his or their qualification for the position. If it is decided that the hearing officer or officers for a county shall be the clerk or assistant clerks, the clerk of superior court in the county shall designate the person or persons to serve as hearing officer, and the chief district judge, the clerk of superior court, and the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts shall ensure his or their qualification for the position.

(c) Public To Be Informed.--When an expedited process is to be implemented in a county or district court district as defined in G.S. 7A-133 , the chief district court judge, the clerk or clerks of superior court in affected counties in the district, and the Administrative Office of the Courts shall take steps to ensure that attorneys, the general public, and parties to pending child support cases in the county or district are informed of the change in procedures and helped to understand and use the new system effectively.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 113-169-4 — NC Code / Chapter 113 / Section 113-169-4
§ 113-169.4. Licensing of ocean fishing piers; fees
Status: in_force

(a) The owner or operator of an ocean fishing pier within the coastal fishing waters who charges the public a fee to fish in any manner from the pier shall secure a current and valid pier license from the Division. An application for a pier license shall disclose the names of all parties involved in the pier operations, including the owner of the property, owner of the pier if different, and all leasehold or other corporate arrangements, and all persons with a substantial financial interest in the pier.

(b) Within 30 days following a change of ownership of a pier, or a change as to the manager, the manager or new manager shall secure a replacement pier license as provided in G.S. 113-168.1(h) .

(c) Pier licenses are issued upon payment of four dollars and fifty cents ($4.50) per linear foot, to the nearest foot, that the pier extends into coastal fishing waters beyond the mean high waterline. The length of the pier shall be measured to include all extensions of the pier.

(d) The manager who secures the pier license shall be the individual with the duty of executive-level supervision of pier operations.

(e) The pier license issued under this section authorizes any individual who does not hold a Coastal Recreational Fishing License under Article 14B or Article 25A of this Chapter to engage in recreational fishing while on the pier.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47F-3-103 — NC Code / Chapter 47F / Section 47F-3-103
§ 47F-3-103. Executive board members and officers
Status: reserved

(a) Except as provided in the declaration, in the bylaws, in subsection (b) of this section, or in other provisions of this Chapter, the executive board may act in all instances on behalf of the association. In the performance of their duties, officers and members of the executive board shall discharge their duties in good faith. Officers shall act according to the standards for officers of a nonprofit corporation set forth in G.S. 55A-8-42 , and members shall act according to the standards for directors of a nonprofit corporation set forth in G.S. 55A-8-30 .

(b) The executive board may not act unilaterally on behalf of the association to amend the declaration ( G.S. 47F-2-117 ), to terminate the planned community ( G.S. 47F-2-118 ), or to elect members of the executive board or determine the qualifications, powers and duties, or terms of office of executive board members ( G.S. 47F-3-103(e) ), but the executive board may unilaterally fill vacancies in its membership for the unexpired portion of any term. Notwithstanding any provision of the declaration or bylaws to the contrary, the lot owners, by a majority vote of all persons present and entitled to vote at any meeting of the lot owners at which a quorum is present, may remove any member of the executive board with or without cause, other than a member appointed by the declarant.

(c) Within 30 days after adoption of any proposed budget for the planned community, the executive board shall provide to all the lot owners a summary of the budget and a notice of the meeting to consider ratification of the budget, including a statement that the budget may be ratified without a quorum. The executive board shall set a date for a meeting of the lot owners to consider ratification of the budget, such meeting to be held not less than 10 nor more than 60 days after mailing of the summary and notice. There shall be no requirement that a quorum be present at the meeting. The budget is ratified unless at that meeting a majority of all the lot owners in the association or any larger vote specified in the declaration rejects the budget. In the event the proposed budget is rejected, the periodic budget last ratified by the lot owners shall be continued until such time as the lot owners ratify a subsequent budget proposed by the executive board.

(d) The declaration may provide for a period of declarant control of the association, during which period a declarant, or persons designated by the declarant, may appoint and remove the officers and members of the executive board.

(e) Not later than the termination of any period of declarant control, the lot owners shall elect an executive board of at least three members, at least a majority of whom shall be lot owners. The executive board shall elect the officers. The executive board members and officers shall take office upon election.

(f) The association shall publish the names and addresses of all officers and board members of the association within 30 days of their election.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-549-55 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-549-55
§ 106-549.55. Labeling standards; false and misleading labels
Status: in_force

(a) All poultry products inspected at any official establishment under the authority of this Article and found to be not adulterated, shall at the time they leave the establishment bear, in distinctly legible form, on their shipping containers and immediate containers as the Commissioner may require, the information required under subdivision (17) of G.S. 106-549.51 . In addition, the Commissioner whenever he determines such action is practicable and necessary for the protection of the public, may require nonconsumer packaged carcasses at the time they leave the establishment to bear directly thereon in distinctly legible form any information required under such subdivision (17).

(b) The Board, whenever it determines such action is necessary for the protection of the public, may prescribe:

(1) The styles and sizes of type to be used with respect to material required to be incorporated in labeling to avoid false or misleading labeling in marking or otherwise labeling any articles or poultry subject to this Article;

(2) Definitions and standards of identity or composition for articles subject to this Article and standards of fill of container for such articles not inconsistent with any such standards established under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, or under the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, and there shall be consultation between the Commissioner or his authorized representative and the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States prior to the issuance of such standards to avoid inconsistency between such standards and the federal standards.

(c) No article subject to this Article shall be sold or offered for sale by any person in intrastate commerce, under any name or other marking or labeling which is false or misleading, or in any container of a misleading form or size, but established trade names and other marking and labeling and containers which are not false or misleading and which are approved by the Commissioner, are permitted.

(d) If the Commissioner has reason to believe that any marking or labeling or the size or form of any container in use or proposed for use with respect to any article subject to this Article is false or misleading in any particular, he may direct that such use be withheld unless the marking, labeling, or container is modified in such manner as he may prescribe so that it will not be false or misleading. A person who uses or proposes to use the marking, labeling, or container and who does not accept the determination of the Commissioner may commence a contested case under G.S. 150B-23 . If directed by the Commissioner, the marking, labeling, or container may not be used pending a final decision.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-450 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-450
§ 115C-450. School food services
Status: in_force

(a) School nutrition services shall be included in the budget of each public school unit that provides school nutrition services, and the State Board of Education shall provide for school nutrition services in the uniform budget format required by G.S. 115C-426 .

(b) No public school unit that provides school nutrition services shall assess indirect costs to a school nutrition program unless the program has an operating balance of at least two months. The Department of Public Instruction shall calculate the operating balance of a school nutrition program of a public school unit that provides school nutrition services. If complete and final financial reports for a given year are not yet available for a school nutrition program, the Department of Public Instruction may use projected figures, but shall update the published average month's operating balance once complete and final financial reports become available. As used in this subsection, the term “indirect costs” is as defined in 2 C.F.R. § 200.414 .

(c) No public school unit that provides school nutrition services shall assess an unrestricted indirect costs rate to a school nutrition program that is more than eight percent (8%).

(d) No later than May 15, 2022, and every six months thereafter, the Department of Public Instruction shall report all the following information to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee, the Senate Appropriations Committee on Education/Higher Education, the House Appropriations Committee on Education, and the Fiscal Research Division:

(1) The number of months of the operating balance held by the school nutrition program for each public school unit.

(2) The amount and percentage of indirect costs charged to the school nutrition program by the public school unit, if any.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-351 — NC Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-351
§ 20-351. Purpose
Status: in_force

This Article shall provide State and private remedies against motor vehicle manufacturers for persons injured by new motor vehicles failing to conform to express warranties.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-10-4 — NC Code / Chapter 28A / Section 28A-10-4
§ 28A-10-4. Hearing; order
Status: in_force

The clerk of superior court shall conduct a hearing in accordance with Article 2 of this Chapter on the petition not sooner than 10 days nor later than 20 days after notice to interested persons pursuant to G.S. 28A-10-2(b) . If the clerk of superior court finds all the accounts proper, including accounts subsequent to the filing of the petition, and determines that the resignation of the personal representative is in the best interest of the estate and can be allowed, the resignation may be approved subject to the provisions of G.S. 28A-10-5 . Except in cases governed by G.S. 28A-10-8 , the clerk of superior court shall appoint a successor pursuant to G.S. 28A-4-1 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 127A-125 — NC Code / Chapter 127A / Section 127A-125
§ 127A-125. Custody of military property
Status: in_force

All public military property, except when used in the performance of military duty, shall be kept in armories, or other properly designated places of deposit; and it shall be unlawful for any person charged with the care and safety of public military property to allow it out of his or her custody, except as specified in this section.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 116-6-1 — NC Code / Chapter 116 / Section 116-6-1
§ 116-6.1. Student member of the Board of Governors
Status: in_force

(a) Commencing July 1, 1991, and during a person's continuance as a student in good standing at a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina, the person serving as president of the University of North Carolina Association of Student Governments (UNCASG) or the person's designee shall serve ex officio as a member of the Board of Governors. This student member shall be in addition to the 24 members elected to the Board of Governors.

(b) The student member shall have all the rights and privileges of membership, except that the student member shall not have a vote.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-544-4 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-544-4
§ 15A-544.4. Notice of forfeiture
Status: in_force

(a) The court shall give notice of the entry of forfeiture by mailing a copy of the forfeiture to the defendant and to each surety whose name appears on the bail bond.

(b) The notice shall be sent by first-class mail to the defendant and to each surety named on the bond at the surety's address of record.

(c) If a bail agent on behalf of an insurance company executed the bond, the court shall also provide a copy of the forfeiture to the bail agent, but failure to provide notice to the bail agent shall not affect the validity of any notice given to the insurance company.

(d) Notice given under this section is effective when the notice is mailed.

(e) Notice under this section shall be mailed not later than the 30th day after the date on which the defendant fails to appear as required and a call and fail is ordered.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-208 — NC Code / Chapter 160A / Section 160A-208
§ 160A-208. Continuing taxes
Status: reserved

Except for taxes levied on property under the Machinery Act, a city may impose an authorized tax by a permanent ordinance that shall stand from year to year until amended or repealed, and it shall not be necessary to reimpose the tax in each annual budget ordinance.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-549-84 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-549-84
§ 106-549.84. Movement of contaminated animals forbidden
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall ship, transport, or otherwise move, or deliver, or receive for movement, any animal, animal product, or animal feed under detention or quarantine pursuant to G.S. 106-549.82 , except under written permit of the Commissioner and in accordance with the conditions stated in such written permission, or until the detention or quarantine order has been revoked by written order of the Commissioner.

(b) No person shall ship, transport, or otherwise move, or deliver or receive for movement any animal, animal product, or animal feed which he knows, or by the exercise of reasonable care would know, contains or bears a biological residue which exceeds the tolerances established or approved by the Board.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-458 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-458
§ 130A-458. Persons in charge of laboratories to report
Status: in_force

A person in charge of a laboratory providing diagnostic service in this State shall report to the Department laboratory findings related to occupational diseases and illnesses for which laboratory reporting is required by the Commission.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 121-7-2 — NC Code / Chapter 121 / Section 121-7-2
§ 121-7.2. Maritime museum; branch museum
Status: in_force

The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources shall assume from the Southport Maritime Museum, Inc., the administration of the Southport Maritime Museum in Brunswick County and shall operate it as a branch of the North Carolina Maritime Museum.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-584 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-584
§ 143-584. State agency safety and health committees
Status: in_force

The Office of State Human Resources shall create, pursuant to guidelines adopted under subsection (a) of G.S. 143-583 , committees to perform workplace inspections, review injury and illness records, make advisory recommendations to the agency's managers, and perform other functions determined by the Office of State Human Resources to be necessary for the effective implementation of the State Employees Workplace Requirements Program for Safety and the workers' compensation program.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-404 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-404
§ 106-404. Animals affected with glanders to be killed
Status: in_force

If the owner of any animal having the glanders or farcy omits or refuses, upon discovery or knowledge of its condition, to destroy the animal at once, that person is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-39-80 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-39-80
§ 58-39-80. Hearings and procedures
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever the Commissioner has reason to believe that an insurance institution, agent, or insurance-support organization has been or is engaged in conduct in this State that violates this Article, or whenever the Commissioner has reason to believe that an insurance-support organization has been or is engaged in conduct outside this State that has an effect on a person residing in this State and that violates this Article, the Commissioner may issue and serve upon such insurance institution, agent, or insurance-support organization a statement of charges and notice of hearing to be held at a time and place fixed in the notice. The date for such hearing shall be not less than 10 days after the date of service.

(b) At the time and place fixed for such hearing the insurance institution, agent, or insurance-support organization charged shall have an opportunity to answer the charges against it and present evidence on its behalf. Upon good cause shown, the Commissioner shall permit any adversely affected person to intervene, appear, and be heard at such hearing by counsel or in person.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 153A-131 — NC Code / Chapter 153A / Section 153A-131
§ 153A-131. Possession or harboring of dangerous animals
Status: in_force

A county may by ordinance regulate, restrict, or prohibit the possession or harboring of animals which are dangerous to persons or property. No such ordinance shall have the effect of permitting any activity or condition with respect to a wild animal which is prohibited or more severely restricted by regulations of the Wildlife Resources Commission.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-430 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-430
§ 143B-430. Secretary of Commerce--powers and duties
Status: in_force

(a) The head of the Department of Commerce is the Secretary of Commerce. The Secretary of Commerce shall have such powers and duties as are conferred on him by this Chapter, delegated to him by the Governor, and conferred on him by the Constitution and laws of this State. The Secretary of Commerce shall be responsible for effectively and efficiently organizing the Department of Commerce to promote the policy of the State of North Carolina as outlined in G.S. 143B-428 and to promote statewide economic development in accord with that policy. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Article and in Article 1 of this Chapter, the functions, powers, duties and obligations of every agency or subunit in the Department of Commerce shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce.

(b) The Secretary of Commerce shall have the power and duty to accept and administer federal funds provided to the State through the Job Training Partnership Act, Pub. L. No. 97-300, 96 Stat. 1322, 29 U.S.C. § 1501 et seq., as amended.

(c) The Secretary of Commerce may adopt rules to administer a program or fulfill a duty assigned to the Department of Commerce or the Secretary of Commerce.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-218-3 — NC Code / Chapter 115C / Section 115C-218-3
§ 115C-218.3. Fast-track replication of high-quality charter schools
Status: in_force

Upon recommendations by the Office of Charter Schools and the Charter Schools Advisory Board, the State Board of Education shall adopt a process and rules for fast-track replication of high-quality charter schools currently operating in the State. The State Board of Education shall not require a planning year for applicants selected through the fast-track replication process. In addition to the requirements for charter applicants set forth in this Article, the fast-track replication process adopted by the State Board of Education shall, at a minimum, require a board of directors of a charter school to demonstrate one of the following in order to qualify for fast-track replication:

(1) The board of directors operates charter schools and can demonstrate both of the following:

a. The majority of charter schools in this State governed by the board of directors has student academic outcomes from the three prior school years that are equal to or greater than the student academic outcomes in the local school administrative unit in which each charter school is located.

b. The board of directors can provide three years of financially sound audits for each school it governs.

(2) The board of directors agrees to contract with an education management organization or charter management organization that can demonstrate both of the following:

a. The majority of the charter schools in this State managed by the organization has student academic outcomes from the three prior school years that are equal to or greater than the student academic outcomes in the local school administrative unit in which each charter school is located.

b. The organization can provide three years of financially sound audits for each school it governs.

The State Board of Education shall ensure that the rules for a fast-track replication process provide that decisions by the State Board of Education on whether to grant a charter through the replication process are completed in less than 120 days from the application submission date. The State Board shall provide a decision no later than October 15 of the year immediately preceding the year of the proposed school opening.