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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 122A-5-9 — NC Code / Chapter 122A / Section 122A-5-9
§ 122A-5.9. Formation of subsidiary corporations to own and operate housing projects
Status: in_force

(a) The Agency may acquire, by purchase or otherwise, construct, acquire, develop, own, repair, maintain, improve, rehabilitate, renovate, furnish, equip, operate, and manage residential rental housing projects to rent to persons and families of lower and moderate income.

(b) The Agency may form a nonprofit corporation or corporations under the laws of this State which may acquire, construct, develop, repair, improve, rehabilitate, renovate, furnish, equip, operate and manage residential rental housing projects for persons and families of lower and moderate income. All of the stock of a nonprofit corporation formed by the Agency shall be owned by the Agency and its Board of Directors shall be elected or appointed by the Agency.

(c) No statutory provisions with respect to the acquisition, operation or disposition of property by other public bodies shall be applicable to the Agency or to any nonprofit corporation formed pursuant to this section.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-76 — NC Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1-76
§ 1-76. Where subject of action situated
Status: in_force

Actions for the following causes must be tried in the county in which the subject of the action, or some part thereof, is situated, subject to the power of the court to change the place of trial in the cases provided by law:

(1) Recovery of real property, or of an estate or interest therein, or for the determination in any form of such right or interest, and for injuries to real property.

(2) Partition of real property.

(3) Foreclosure of a mortgage of real property.

(4) Recovery of personal property when the recovery of the property itself is the sole or primary relief demanded.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-298 — NC Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90-298
§ 90-298. Qualifications for applicants for temporary licensure
Status: in_force

(a) To be eligible for temporary licensure an applicant must:

(1) Meet the academic and clinical practicum requirements of G.S. 90-295(1), (2), and (3) ; and

(2) Submit a plan of supervised experience complying with the provisions of G.S. 90-295(4) ; and

(3) Pay the temporary license fee required by G.S. 90-305(5) .

(b) A temporary license is required when an applicant has not completed the required supervised experience and passed the required examination.

(c) A temporary license issued under this section shall be valid only during the period of supervised experience required by G.S. 90-295(4) , and shall not be renewed.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215-30 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-215-30
§ 143-215.30. Notice of completion; certification of final approval; notice of transfer
Status: reserved

(a) Except as set forth in subsection (d1) of this section, immediately upon completion, enlargement, repair, alteration or removal of a dam, notice of completion shall be given the Commission. As soon as possible thereafter supplementary drawings or descriptive matter showing or describing the dam as actually constructed shall be filed with the Department in such detail as the Commission may require.

(b) When an existing dam is enlarged, the supplementary drawings and descriptive matter need apply only to the new work.

(c) The completed work shall be inspected by the supervising engineers, and upon finding that the work has been done as required and that the dam is safe and satisfies minimum streamflow requirements, they shall file with the Department a certificate that the work has been completed in accordance with approved design, plans, specifications and other requirements. Unless the Commission has reason to believe that the dam is unsafe or is not in compliance with any applicable rule or law, the Commission shall grant final approval of the work in accordance with the certificate, subject to such terms as it deems necessary for the protection of life and property.

(d) Pending issuance of the Commission's final approval, the dam shall not be used except on written consent of the Commission, subject to conditions it may impose.

(d1) The requirements of this section shall not apply to a professionally supervised dam removal under G.S. 143-215.27(c) if the person removing the dam provides confirmation of completion of dam removal to the Department within 10 days of completion of the removal.

(e) The owner of a dam shall provide written notice of transfer to the Department within 30 days after title to the dam has been legally transferred. The notice of transfer shall include the name and address of the new dam owner.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-796 — NC Code / Chapter 7A / Section 7A-796
§ 7A-796. Local judicially managed accountability and recovery court committees
Status: reserved

Each judicial district choosing to establish a local judicially managed accountability and recovery court shall form a local judicially managed accountability and recovery court committee, which shall be comprised to assure representation appropriate to the type or types of local judicially managed accountability and recovery court operations to be conducted in the district and shall consist of persons appointed by the senior resident superior court judge with the concurrence of the chief district court judge and the district attorney for that district, chosen from the following list:

(1) A judge of the superior court.

(2) A judge of the district court.

(3) A district attorney or assistant district attorney.

(4) A public defender or assistant public defender in judicial districts served by a public defender, a member of the private criminal defense bar, or a member of the private bar who represents respondents in department of social services juvenile matters.

(5) An attorney representing a county department of social services, the director or director's designee of the child welfare services division of a county department of social services, or a representative of the guardian ad litem from within the district.

(6) to (8) Repealed by S.L. 2021-180, § 16.5(a), eff. Jan. 1, 2022 .

(9) A clerk of superior court.

(10), (11) Repealed by S.L. 2021-180, § 16.5(a), eff. Jan. 1, 2022 .

(12) The chief juvenile court counselor for the district.

(13) A probation officer.

(13a) The sheriff or sheriff's designee.

(14) A local law enforcement officer.

(15) A representative of the local school administrative unit.

(16) A representative of the local community college or other adjacent secondary educational institution with a school of social work.

(17) A representative of the treatment providers.

(18) A representative of the area mental health entity managed care organization.

(19) Any local recovery court coordinator.

(20) Any other persons selected by the local management committee.

The local judicially managed accountability and recovery court committee shall develop local guidelines and procedures, not inconsistent with the State guidelines and minimum standards, that are necessary for the operation and evaluation of the local judicially managed accountability and recovery court.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 114-54 — NC Code / Chapter 114 / Section 114-54
§ 114-54. Compensation and expenses of members
Status: in_force

Public members of the Financial Literacy Council may receive subsistence and travel expenses at the rates set forth in G.S. 138-5 or G.S. 138-6 , as appropriate.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 147-54-8 — NC Code / Chapter 147 / Section 147-54-8
§ 147-54.8. Constitutional Amendments Publication Commission
Status: in_force

(a) There is established within the Department of the Secretary of State the Constitutional Amendments Publication Commission (hereinafter “Commission”).

(b) The Commission shall consist of three members who shall serve ex officio as follows: The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Legislative Services Officer.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-288-1 — NC Code / Chapter 163 / Section 163-288-1
§ 163-288.1. Activating voters for newly annexed or incorporated areas
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever any new city or special district is incorporated or whenever an existing city or district annexes any territory, the city or special district shall cause a map of the corporate or district limits to be prepared from the boundary descriptions in the act, charter or other document creating the city or district or authorizing or implementing the annexation. The map shall be delivered to the county board of elections conducting the elections for the city or special district. The board of elections shall then activate for city or district elections each voter eligible to vote in the city or district who is registered to vote in the county to the extent that residence addresses shown on the county registration certificates can be identified as within the limits of the city or special district. Each voter whose registration is thus activated for city or special district elections shall be so notified by mail. The cost of preparing the map of the newly incorporated city or special district or of the newly annexed area, and of activating voters eligible to vote therein, shall be paid by the city or special district. In lieu of the procedures set forth in this section, the county board of elections may use either of the methods of registration of voters set out in G.S. 163-288.2 when activating voters pursuant to the incorporation of a new city or election of city officials or both under authority of an act of the General Assembly or when activating voters after an annexation of new territory by a city or special district under Chapter 160A, Article 4A, or other general or local law.

(b) Each voter whose registration is changed by the county or municipal board of elections in any manner pursuant to any annexation or expunction under this subsection shall be so notified by mail.

(c) The State Board of Elections shall have authority to adopt regulations for the more detailed administration of this section.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50A-373 — NC Code / Chapter 50A / Section 50A-373
§ 50A-373. Effect of prior judicial decree or agreement
Status: in_force

In a proceeding for a grant of custodial responsibility pursuant to this Part, the following shall apply:

(1) A prior judicial order designating custodial responsibility of a child in the event of deployment is binding on the court unless the circumstances require modifying a judicial order regarding custodial responsibility.

(2) The court shall enforce a prior written agreement between the parents for designating custodial responsibility of a child in the event of deployment, including a prior written agreement executed under Part 2 of this Article, unless the court finds the agreement contrary to the best interest of the child.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-133-4 — NC Code / Chapter 136 / Section 136-133-4
§ 136-133.4. Selective vegetation removal permits
Status: in_force

(a) Selected vegetation within the approved limits shall be cut, thinned, pruned, or removed by the permittee or the permittee's agent in accordance with accepted International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) standards.

(b) Permits are valid for a period of one year. The permittee may cut, thin, prune, or remove vegetation more than one time per year. A 48-hour notification shall be provided to the Department by the permittee before entering the right-of-way.

(c) The permittee, or the permittee's agent, shall not impede the flow of traffic on any highway while performing vegetation removal authorized by a permit. Access to the work site on controlled access highways must be gained without using the main travel way of the highway. The Department shall determine the traffic control signage that may be required. The permittee shall furnish, erect, and maintain the required signs as directed by the Department. The permittee, or the permittee's agent, shall wear safety vests that conform to OSHA standards while performing the work.

(d) Any damage to vegetation designated to remain at the site, to highway fences, signs, paved areas, or other facilities shall be repaired or replaced by the permittee to the condition prior to the occurrence of the damage caused by the permittee or the permittee's agent. All trimmings, laps, and debris shall be removed from the right-of-way and disposed of in areas provided by the permittee. No burning or burying of trimmings, laps, or debris shall be permitted on the highway right-of-way. When chipping is used to dispose of trimmings, chips may be neatly spread on a right-of-way at locations which the Department determines will not be harmful to the environment or affect traffic safety.

(e) Willful failure to substantially comply with all the requirements specified in the selective vegetation removal permit, unless otherwise mutually resolved by the Department and the permittee, shall result in a five-year moratorium for vegetation removal at the site, a summary revocation of the outdoor advertising permit if such willful failure meets the standards in G.S. 136-133.1(i) , payment of Department investigative costs, and forfeiture of any applicable performance bond as determined by the Secretary. The moratorium shall begin upon execution of a settlement agreement or entry of a final disposition in the case.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-211 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-211
§ 143-211. Declaration of public policy
Status: in_force

(a) It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this State to provide for the conservation of its water and air resources. Furthermore, it is the intent of the General Assembly, within the context of this Article and Articles 21A and 21B of this Chapter, to achieve and to maintain for the citizens of the State a total environment of superior quality. Recognizing that the water and air resources of the State belong to the people, the General Assembly affirms the State's ultimate responsibility for the preservation and development of these resources in the best interest of all its citizens and declares the prudent utilization of these resources to be essential to the general welfare.

(b) It is the public policy of the State to maintain, protect, and enhance water quality within North Carolina. Further, it is the public policy of the State that the cumulative impact of transfers from a source river basin shall not result in a violation of the antidegradation policy set out in 40 Code of Federal Regulations § 131.12 (1 July 1997 Edition) and the statewide antidegradation policy adopted pursuant thereto.

(c) It is the purpose of this Article to create an agency which shall administer a program of water and air pollution control and water resource management. It is the intent of the General Assembly, through the duties and powers defined herein, to confer such authority upon the Department of Environmental Quality as shall be necessary to administer a complete program of water and air conservation, pollution abatement and control and to achieve a coordinated effort of pollution abatement and control with other jurisdictions. Standards of water and air purity shall be designed to protect human health, to prevent injury to plant and animal life, to prevent damage to public and private property, to insure the continued enjoyment of the natural attractions of the State, to encourage the expansion of employment opportunities, to provide a permanent foundation for healthy industrial development and to secure for the people of North Carolina, now and in the future, the beneficial uses of these great natural resources. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the powers and duties of the Environmental Management Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality be construed so as to enable the Department and the Commission to qualify to administer federally mandated programs of environmental management and to qualify to accept and administer funds from the federal government for such programs.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 62-148 — NC Code / Chapter 62 / Section 62-148
§ 62-148. Rates on leased or controlled utility
Status: in_force

If any public utility operating in the State other than a motor carrier is owned, controlled or operated by lease or other agreement by any other public utility doing business in the State, its rates may, in the discretion of the Commission, be determined for such public utility by the rates prescribed for the public utility which owns, controls or operates it.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 138A-40 — NC Code / Chapter 138A / Section 138A-40
§ 138A-40. Employment and supervision of members of covered person's or legislative employee's extended family
Status: in_force

A covered person or legislative employee shall not cause the employment, appointment, promotion, transfer, or advancement of an extended family member of the covered person or legislative employee to a State office, or a position to which the covered person or legislative employee supervises or manages, except for positions at the General Assembly as permitted under G.S. 120-32(2) . A public servant or legislative employee shall not supervise, manage, or participate in an action relating to the discipline of a member of the public servant's or legislative employee's extended family, except as specifically authorized by the public servant's or legislative employee's employing entity.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 114-4-2F — NC Code / Chapter 114 / Section 114-4-2F
§ 114-4.2F. Designation of attorney specializing in the law of the handicapped
Status: in_force

The Attorney General is authorized to designate from his staff an attorney to specialize in the law of the handicapped. The attorney so designated shall act as advisor to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Division of Services for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing, the North Carolina School for the Deaf and the Governor Morehead School.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-47-80 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-47-80
§ 58-47-80. Assets and invested assets
Status: in_force

Funds shall be held and invested by the board under G.S. 58-7-160 , 58-7-162 , 58-7-163 , 58-7-165 , 58-7-167 , 58-7-168 , 58-7-170 , 58-7-172 , 58-7-173 , 58-7-178 , 58-7-179 , 58-7-180 , 58-7-183 , 58-7-185 , 58-7-187 , 58-7-188 , 58-7-192 , 58-7-193 , 58-7-197 , 58-7-200 , and 58-19-10 .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-76-25 — NC Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58-76-25
§ 58-76-25. Evidence against principal admissible against sureties
Status: in_force

In actions brought upon the official bonds of sheriffs, coroners, or other public officers, and also upon the bonds of executors, administrators, collectors or guardians, when it may be necessary for the plaintiff to prove any default of the principal obligors, any receipt or acknowledgment of such obligors, or any other matter or thing which by law would be admissible and competent for or toward proving the same as against him, shall in like manner be admissible and competent as presumptive evidence only against all or any of his sureties who may be defendants with or without him in said actions.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 161-50-4 — NC Code / Chapter 161 / Section 161-50-4
§ 161-50.4. Eligibility
Status: in_force

(a) Each county register of deeds who has retired with at least 12 years eligible service as register of deeds from the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System or an equivalent locally sponsored plan before June 30, 1988, and those who retire on or after June 30, 1988, but before July 1, 1991, and who have completed at least 12 years of eligible service as register of deeds is entitled to receive a monthly pension under this Article, beginning July 1, 1988. Effective July 1, 1991, each county register of deeds who retires with at least 10 years of eligible service as register of deeds is entitled to receive a monthly pension under this Article.

(a1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, effective January 1, 1996, any county register of deeds who separates from service as register of deeds after completing at least 10 years of eligible service as register of deeds, but who does not commence retirement with the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System, shall have the right to receive a monthly pension under this Article payable upon retirement with the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System.

(a2) Each county register of deeds who is not eligible to retire with the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System solely because the county has not elected to participate as an employer with the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System and who has either (i) attained the age of 65, (ii) attained 30 years of creditable service regardless of age, or (iii) attained the age of 60 with not less than 25 years of creditable service, and who has completed at least 10 years of creditable service as a register of deeds is entitled to receive a monthly pension under this Article, provided that register of deeds is not eligible to receive any retirement benefits from any State or locally sponsored plan.

(b) Each eligible retired register of deeds as defined in subsection (a), (a1), or (a2) of this section relating to service and retirement status shall be entitled to receive a monthly pension under this Article beginning with the month of retirement.

(c) A county register of deeds who is otherwise eligible to receive a monthly pension under this Article shall cease to be eligible upon forfeiture of any retirement benefits under G.S. 128-38.4 or G.S. 128-38.4A .
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-64-50 — NC Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143-64-50
§ 143-64.50. State/public school-contracted on-, near-site child care facilities; location authorization; contract for program services authorization
Status: in_force

State agencies and local boards of education may contract with any city, county, or other political subdivision of the State, governmental or private agency, person, association, or corporation to establish child care services in State buildings and public schools. If the child care program is located in a State building that is not used for legislative activity, the procedure for approving the location of the program shall be pursuant to G.S. 143-341(4) . If the child care program is located in a State building used for legislative activity, the procedure for approving the location of the program shall be pursuant to G.S. 120-32.1 . If the child care program is located in any other State building, the procedure for contracting for child care services shall be pursuant to G.S. 143-49(3) . If the child care program is located in a State building used for legislative activity, the procedure for contracting for child care services shall be pursuant to G.S. 120-32(4) .

Contracts for services awarded pursuant to this section are exempt from the provisions of G.S. 66-58(a) and the contract may provide for payment of rent by the lessee or the operator of the facility.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 62-69 — NC Code / Chapter 62 / Section 62-69
§ 62-69. Stipulations and agreements; prehearing conference
Status: in_force

(a) In all contested proceedings the Commission, by prehearing conferences and in such other manner as it may deem expedient and in the public interest, shall encourage the parties and their counsel to make and enter stipulations of record for the following purposes:

(1) Eliminating the necessity of proof of all facts which may be admitted and the authenticity of documentary evidence,

(2) Facilitating the use of exhibits, and

(3) Clarifying the issues of fact and law.

The Commission may make informal disposition of any contested proceeding by stipulation, agreed settlement, consent order or default.

(b) Unless otherwise provided in the Commission's rules of practice and procedure, such prehearing conferences may be ordered by the Commission or requested by any party to a proceeding in substantially the same manner, and with substantially the same subsequent procedure, as provided by law for the conduct of pretrial hearings in the superior court.