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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-281 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-281
§ 15A-281. Nontestimonial identification order at request of defendant
Status: in_force

A person arrested for or charged with a felony offense, or a Class A1 or Class 1 misdemeanor offense may request that nontestimonial identification procedures be conducted upon himself. If it appears that the results of specific nontestimonial identification procedures will be of material aid in determining whether the defendant committed the offense, the judge to whom the request was directed must order the State to conduct the identification procedures.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-301-1 — NC Code / Chapter 130A / Section 130A-301-1
§ 130A-301.1. Land clearing and inert debris landfills with a disposal area of 1/2 acre or less; recordation
Status: in_force

(a) No landfill for the on-site disposal of land clearing and inert debris shall, at the time the landfill is sited, be sited 50 feet or less from a boundary of an adjacent property.

(b) The owner of a landfill for the on-site disposal of land clearing and inert debris shall file a certified copy of a survey of the property on which the landfill is located in the register of deeds' office in the county in which the property is located, which survey shall accurately show the location of the landfill and the record owner of the land on which the landfill is situated.

(c) Prior to the lease or conveyance of any lot or tract of land which directly abuts or is contiguous to the disposal area used for land clearing and inert debris, the owner of the lot or tract shall prepare a document disclosing that a portion of the property has been used as a disposal area for land clearing and inert debris or has been used to meet applicable minimum buffer requirements. The disclosure shall include a legal description of the property that would be sufficient in an instrument of conveyance and shall be filed in the register of deeds office prior to any lease or conveyance.

(d) No public, commercial, or residential building shall be located or constructed on the property, or any portion of the property on which the landfill for the on-site disposal of land clearing and inert debris is located, 50 feet or less from the landfill. Construction of such buildings, with the exception of site preparation and foundation work, shall not commence until after closure of the on-site land clearing and inert debris landfill.

(e) Source reduction methods including, but not limited to, chipping and mulching of land clearing and inert debris shall be utilized to the maximum degree technically and economically feasible.

(f) The Department of Transportation is exempt from subsections (b) and (c) of this section for the on-site disposal of land clearing and inert debris on highway rights-of-way.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215-11 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-215-11
§ 143-215.11. Short title
Status: in_force

This Part shall be known and may be cited as the Water Use Act of 1967.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-32 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-32
§ 163-32. Compensation of members of county boards of elections
Status: in_force

In full compensation of their services, members of the county board of elections (including the chairman) shall be paid by the county twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per meeting for the time they are actually engaged in the discharge of their duties, together with reimbursement of expenditures necessary and incidental to the discharge of their duties; provided that members are not entitled to be compensated for more than one meeting held in any one 24-hour period. In its discretion, the board of county commissioners of any county may pay the chairman and members of the county board of elections compensation in addition to the per meeting and expense allowance provided in this paragraph.

In all counties the board of elections shall pay its clerk, assistant clerks, and other employees such compensation as it shall fix within budget appropriations. Counties which adopt full-time and permanent registration shall have authority to pay directors of elections whatever compensation they may fix within budget appropriations.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 25-8-507 — NC Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-8-507
§ 25-8-507. Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order
Status: in_force

(a) A securities intermediary shall comply with an entitlement order if the entitlement order is originated by the appropriate person, the securities intermediary has had reasonable opportunity to assure itself that the entitlement order is genuine and authorized, and the securities intermediary has had reasonable opportunity to comply with the entitlement order. A securities intermediary satisfies the duty if:

(1) The securities intermediary acts with respect to the duty as agreed upon by the entitlement holder and the securities intermediary; or

(2) In the absence of agreement, the securities intermediary exercises due care in accordance with reasonable commercial standards to comply with the entitlement order.

(b) If a securities intermediary transfers a financial asset pursuant to an ineffective entitlement order, the securities intermediary shall reestablish a security entitlement in favor of the person entitled to it, and pay or credit any payments or distributions that the person did not receive as a result of the wrongful transfer. If the securities intermediary does not reestablish a security entitlement, the securities intermediary is liable to the entitlement holder for damages.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 93B-9 — NC Code / Chapter 93B / Section 93B-9
§ 93B-9. Age requirements
Status: in_force

Except certifications issued by the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and the North Carolina Sheriffs' Education and Training Standards Commission pursuant to Chapters 17C, 17E, 74E, and 74G of the General Statutes, no occupational licensing board may require that an individual be more than 18 years of age as a requirement for receiving a license with the following exceptions: the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and the North Carolina Sheriffs' Education and Training Standards Commission may establish a higher age as a requirement for holding certification through either Commission.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1112 — NC Code / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-1112
§ 15A-1112. Venue
Status: in_force

Venue for the conduct of infraction hearings lies in any county where any act or omission constituting part of the alleged infraction occurred.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 121-7-5 — NC Code / Chapter 121 / Section 121-7-5
§ 121-7.5. Bentonville Battlefield Fund
Status: reserved

(a) Fund.--The Bentonville Battlefield Fund is created as a special, interest-bearing, and nonreverting fund in the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, Division of State Historic Sites. The Fund shall be treated as a special trust fund and shall be used for operation, interpretation, maintenance, preservation, development, and expansion at Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site.

(b) Fund Sources.--Notwithstanding Chapter 146 of the General Statutes , the Fund consists of (i) all revenue derived from donations, gifts, devises, grants, admissions, and fees collected for the benefit of the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site, (ii) the net proceeds derived from the sale of real property pursuant to G.S. 146-30(d)(13), and (iii) interest on funds in the Fund credited by the State Treasurer pursuant to G.S. 147-69.2 and G.S. 147-69.3 .

(c) Repealed by S.L. 2021-180, § 14.1(d), eff. July 1, 2021 .

(d) Report.--The Division of State Historic Sites shall submit to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources and the Fiscal Research Division by September 30 of each year a report on the Bentonville Battlefield Fund that shall include the source and amount of all funds credited to the Fund and the purpose and amount of all expenditures from the Fund during the prior fiscal year.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-339-42 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-339-42
§ 1-339.42. Clerk's authority to fix procedural details
Status: in_force

The clerk of the superior court who issues an execution has authority to fix and determine all necessary procedural details with respect to sales in all instances in which this Article fails to make definite provisions as to such procedure.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115D-61 — NC Code / Chapter 115D / Section 115D-61
§ 115D-61. Special provisions for Coastal Carolina Community College
Status: in_force

All local taxes heretofore authorized by the voters of Onslow County to be levied annually for the local financial support of the Onslow County Industrial Education Center may continue to be levied by the board of commissioners of Onslow County for the purpose of providing local financial support of the institution under its present name.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-1030 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-1030
§ 106-1030. Assessment rates
Status: in_force

(a) The assessment rates shall be based on the following standards:

(1) For primary forest products customarily measured in board feet, the “International 1 / 4 Inch Log Rule” or equivalent will be used;

(2) For primary forest products customarily measured in cords, the standard cord of 128 cubic feet or equivalent will be used;

(3) For any other type of forest product separated from the soil, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall determine a fair unit assessment rate, based on the cubic foot volume of one thousand foot board measure, International 1 / 4 Inch Log Rule or one standard cord, 128 cubic feet.

(b) The assessment levied on primary forest products shall be at the following rates:

(1) Fifty cents (50¢) per thousand board feet for softwood sawtimber, veneer logs and bolts, and all other softwood products normally measured in board feet;

(2) Forty cents (40¢) per thousand board feet for hardwood and bald cypress sawtimber, veneer, and all other hardwood and bald cypress products normally measured in board feet;

(3) Twenty cents (20¢) per cord for softwood pulpwood and other softwood products normally measured in cords;

(4) Twelve cents (12¢) per cord for hardwood pulpwood and other hardwood and bald cypress products normally measured in cords;

(5) All material harvested within North Carolina for shipment outside the State for primary processing will be assessed at a percentage of the invoice value. This percentage will be established to yield rates equal to those if the material were processed within the State.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 48-10-103 — NC Code / Chapter 48 / Section 48-10-103
§ 48-10-103. Lawful payments related to adoption
Status: in_force

(a) An adoptive parent, or another person acting on behalf of an adoptive parent, may pay the reasonable and actual fees and expenses for:

(1) Services of an agency in connection with an adoption;

(2) Medical, hospital, nursing, pharmaceutical, traveling, or other similar expenses incurred by a mother or her child incident to the pregnancy and birth or any illness of the adoptee;

(3) Counseling services for a parent or the adoptee that are directly related to the adoption and are provided by a licensed psychiatrist, licensed psychologist, licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed clinical mental health counselor, licensed or certified social worker, fee-based practicing pastoral counselor or other licensed clinical mental health counselor, or an employee of an agency;

(4) Ordinary living expenses of a mother during the pregnancy and for no more than six weeks after the birth;

(5) Expenses incurred in ascertaining the information required under G.S. 48-3-205 about an adoptee and the adoptee's biological family;

(6) Legal services, court costs, and traveling or other administrative expenses connected with an adoption, including any legal service connected with the adoption performed for a parent who consents to the adoption of a minor or relinquishes the minor to an agency; and

(7) Preparation of the preplacement assessment and the report to the court.

(b) A birth parent, or another person acting on the parent's behalf, may receive or accept payments authorized in subsection (a) of this section; or a provider of a service listed in subsection (a) of this section may receive or accept payments for that service.

(c) A payment authorized by subsection (a) of this section may not be made contingent on the placement of the minor for adoption, relinquishment of the minor, consent to the adoption, or cooperation in the completion of the adoption. Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, if the adoption is not completed, a person who has made payments authorized by subsection (a) of this section may not recover them; but neither is this person liable for any further payment unless the person has agreed in a signed writing with a provider of a service to make this payment regardless of the outcome of the proceeding for adoption.

(d) A prospective adoptive parent may seek to recover a payment if the parent or other person receives or accepts it with the fraudulent intent to prevent the proposed adoption from being completed.

(e) An agency may charge or accept a reasonable fee or other compensation from prospective adoptive parents. In assessing a fee or charge, the agency may take into account the income of adoptive parents and may use a sliding scale related to income in order to provide services to persons of all incomes.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 48-3-603 — NC Code / Chapter 48 / Section 48-3-603
§ 48-3-603. Persons whose consent is not required
Status: reserved

(a) Consent to an adoption of a minor is not required of a person or entity whose consent is not required under G.S. 48-3-601 , or any of the following:

(1) An individual whose parental rights and duties have been terminated under Article 11 of Chapter 7B of the General Statutes or by a court of competent jurisdiction in another state.

(2) A man described in G.S. 48-3-601(2) , other than an adoptive father, if (i) the man has been judicially determined not to be the father of the minor to be adopted, or (ii) another man has been judicially determined to be the father of the minor to be adopted.

(3) Repealed by Session Laws 1997-215, § 11(a) .

(4) An individual who has relinquished parental rights or guardianship powers, including the right to consent to adoption, to an agency pursuant to Part 7 of this Article.

(5) A man who is not married to the minor's birth mother and who, after the conception of the minor, has executed a notarized statement denying paternity or disclaiming any interest in the minor.

(6) A deceased parent or the personal representative of a deceased parent's estate.

(7) An individual listed in G.S. 48-3-601 who has not executed a consent or a relinquishment and who fails to respond to a notice of the adoption proceeding within 30 days after the service of the notice or, if service is by publication, 40 days from the first publication of the notice.

(8) An individual notified under G.S. 48-2-206 who does not respond in a timely manner or whose consent is not required as determined by the court.

(9) An individual whose actions resulted in a conviction under G.S. 14-27.21 , G.S. 14-27.22 , G.S. 14-27.23 , or G.S. 14-27.24 and the conception of the minor to be adopted.

(b) The court may issue an order dispensing with the consent of the following:

(1) A guardian or an agency that placed the minor upon a finding that the consent is being withheld contrary to the best interest of the minor.

(2) A minor 12 or more years of age upon a finding that it is not in the best interest of the minor to require the consent.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 131E-139 — NC Code / Chapter 131E / Section 131E-139
§ 131E-139. Adverse action on a license
Status: in_force

(a) The Department may suspend, revoke, annul, withdraw, recall, cancel or amend a license when there has been a substantial failure to comply with the provisions of this Part or the rules promulgated under this Part.

(b) The provisions of Chapter 150B of the General Statutes, The Administrative Procedure Act, shall govern all administrative action and judicial review in cases where the Department has taken the action described in subsection (a).
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-326 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-326
§ 143-326. Transfer of functions, records, property, etc.
Status: reserved

(a) All of the powers, duties, functions, records, property, supplies, equipment, personnel, funds, credits, appropriations, quarterly allotments, and executory contracts of the North Carolina Recreation Commission are transferred to the Department of Local Affairs, effective July 1, 1969. All statutory references to the “North Carolina Recreation Commission” or the “Recreation Commission” are amended to read “North Carolina Department of Local Affairs.”

(b) All of the powers, duties, functions, records, property, supplies, equipment, personnel, funds, credits, appropriations, quarterly allotments, and executory contracts of the Governor's Committee on Law and Order are transferred to the Department of Local Affairs, effective July 1, 1969. All statutory references to the “Governor's Committee on Law and Order” are amended to read “North Carolina Department of Local Affairs.”

(c) All of the powers, duties, functions, records, property, supplies, equipment, personnel, funds, credits, appropriations, quarterly allotments, and executory contracts of the Division of Community Planning of the Department of Conservation and Development are transferred to the Department of Local Affairs.

(d) Such portion of the powers, duties, functions, records, property, supplies, equipment, personnel, funds, credits, appropriations, quarterly allotments, and executory contracts of the State Planning Task Force Division of the Department of Administration as the Governor may designate is transferred to the Department of Local Affairs, effective July 1, 1969.

(e) The transfers directed by subsections (a) through (d), above shall be made under the supervision of the Governor, and he shall be the final arbiter of all differences or disputes arising incident to those transfers.

(f) No transfer of functions to the Department of Local Affairs provided for in this Article shall affect any action, suit, proceeding, prosecution, contract, lease, agreement, or other business transaction involving any of those functions that was initiated, undertaken, or entered into prior to or pending the time of the transfer, except that the Department shall be substituted for the agency from which the function was transferred, and as far as practicable the procedure provided for in this Article shall be employed in completing or disposing of the matter. All rules, regulations, and policies of the agencies from which powers, duties, and functions are herein transferred to the Department of Local Affairs shall continue in force as rules, regulations, and policies of the Department of Local Affairs until altered pursuant to G.S. 143-320(9) .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 19-12 — NC Code / Chapter 19 / Section 19-12
§ 19-12. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used within this Article, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) “ Harmful Material ”.--

a. Any picture, photograph, drawing, or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of the human body which depicts nudity, sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse, and which is harmful to minors, or

b. Any book, pamphlet, magazine, or printed matter however reproduced which contains any matter enumerated in subparagraph a of this subdivision or which contains explicit or detailed verbal descriptions or accounts of sexual excitement, sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse, and which, taken as a whole, is harmful to minors.

(2) “ Harmful to minors ”.--That quality of any description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, when it:

a. Predominantly appeals to the prurient, shameful or morbid interest of minors, and

b. Is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable materials for minors, and

c. Is utterly without redeeming social importance for minors.

(3) “ Knowledge of the Minor's Age ”.--

a. Knowledge or information that the person is a minor, or

b. Reason to know, or a belief or ground for belief which warrants further inspection or inquiry as to, the age of the minor.

(4) “ Knowledge of the Nature of the Material ”.--

a. Knowledge of the character and content of any material described herein, or

b. Knowledge or information that the material described herein has been adjudged to be harmful to minors in a proceeding instituted pursuant to this Article, or is the subject of a pending proceeding instituted pursuant to this Article.

(5) “ Minor ”.--Any person under the age of 18 years.

(6) “ Nudity ”.--The showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a full opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.

(7) “ Person ”.--Any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or other legal entity.

(8) “ Sadomasochistic abuse ”.--Flagellation or torture by or upon a person clad in undergarments, a mask or a bizarre costume, or the condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the part of one so clothed.

(9) “ Sexual conduct ”.--Acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, breast.

(10) “ Sexual excitement ”.--The condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-1354 — NC Code / Chapter 143B / Section 143B-1354
§ 143B-1354. Certification that information technology bid submitted without collusion
Status: in_force

The State CIO shall require bidders to certify that each bid on information technology contracts overseen by the Department is submitted competitively and without collusion. False certification is a Class I felony.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 152-9 — NC Code / Chapter 152 / Section 152-9
§ 152-9. Compensation of jurors at inquest
Status: in_force

All persons who may be summoned to act as jurors in any inquest held by a coroner over dead bodies, and who, in obedience thereto, appear and act as such jurors, shall be entitled to the same compensation in per diem and mileage as is allowed by law to jurors acting in the superior courts. The coroners of the respective counties are authorized and empowered to take proof of the number of days of service of each juror so acting, and also of the number of miles traveled by such juror in going to and returning from such place of inquest, and shall file with the board of commissioners of the county a correct account of the same, which shall be, by such commissioners, audited and paid in the manner provided for the pay of jurors acting in the superior courts.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-341 — NC Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106-341
§ 106-341. Sale of tuberculin
Status: in_force

No person, firm, or corporation shall sell or distribute or administer tuberculin, or keep the same on hand for sale, distribution, or administration, except qualified veterinarians, licensed physicians, or licensed druggists, or others lawfully engaged in the sale of biological products.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-82 — NC Code / Chapter 95 / Section 95-82
§ 95-82. Payment of dues as condition of employment prohibited
Status: in_force

No employer shall require any person, as a condition of employment or continuation of employment, to pay any dues, fees, or other charges of any kind to any labor union or labor organization.