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NC Gen Stat § 74D-8 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 74D - Alarm Systems|Article 1 - Alarm Systems Licensing Act.|§ 74D-8 - Registration of persons employed.

 74D-8. Registration of persons employed.(a) (1) A licensee of an alarm systems business shall register with the Board within 30 days after the employment begins, all of the following employees that are within the State, unless in the discretion of the Director, the time period is extended for good cause:a. Any employee that has access to confidential information detailing the design, installation, or application of any location specific electronic security system or that has access to any code, number, or program that would allow the system to be modified, altered, or circumvented.b. Any employee who installs or services an electronic security system in a commercial business establishment or a personal residence.Employees engaged only in sales or marketing that does not involve any of the above are not required to be registered.(1a) To register an employee, a licensee shall submit to the Board as to the employee: set(s) of classifiable fingerprints on standard F.B.I. applicant cards; recent color photograph(s) of acceptable quality for identification; and statements of any criminal records as deemed appropriate by the Board.(2) Except during the period allowed for registration in subdivision (a)(1) of this section, no alarm systems business may employ any employee unless the employee's registration has been approved by the Board as set forth in this section.(b) The Director shall be notified in writing of the termination of any employee registered under this Chapter within 20 days after the termination.(c) The Board shall issue a registration card to each employee of a licensee who is registered under this Chapter. The registration card shall expire two years after its date of issuance and shall be renewed before the expiration of the term of the registration. If a registered person changes employment to another licensee, the registration card may remain valid; however, persons changing employment must pay the fee authorized by G.S. 74D-7(e)(5).(d) If all required documents, properly completed, have been submitted to the Board no later than 20 days after an employee begins employment, the employer of each applicant for registration shall give the applicant a copy of the complete application which the employee can use until a registration card issued by the Board is received.  (1983, c. 786, s. 1; 1985, c. 561, s. 6; 1989, c. 730, s. 5; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 953, s. 7; 2001-487, s. 65(c); 2009-557, s. 5; 2017-211, s. 5(b); 2018-114, s. 6.)
NC Gen Stat § 74D-8.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 74D - Alarm Systems|Article 1 - Alarm Systems Licensing Act.|§ 74D-8.1 - Apprenticeship registration permit.

 74D-8.1. Apprenticeship registration permit.(a) The Board may issue an apprenticeship registration permit to an applicant who is 16 or 17 years old and currently enrolled in high school if the applicant holds a valid drivers license and submits at least three letters of recommendation stating that the applicant is of good moral character as provided in G.S. 74D-2(d)(2). The letters of recommendation shall be from persons who are not related to the individual, and at least one of the letters shall be from an official at the school where the applicant is currently enrolled.(b) There shall be no fee for an apprenticeship registration permit, and the permit shall expire when the holder attains the age of 18 years. The denial, suspension, or revocation of an apprenticeship registration permit shall be in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 150B of the General Statutes.(c) The applicant shall not perform services as authorized under this Chapter until after the Board has reviewed his or her application and issued him or her an apprenticeship registration permit. The holder of an apprenticeship registration permit shall be accompanied by a licensee or registered employee while engaged in activities authorized under this Chapter. (1999-446, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 74D-9 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 74D - Alarm Systems|Article 1 - Alarm Systems Licensing Act.|§ 74D-9 - Certificate of liability insurance required; form and approval; suspension for noncompliance.

 74D-9. Certificate of liability insurance required; form and approval; suspension for noncompliance.(a) to (c) Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 561, s. 8.(d) No license shall be issued under this act unless the applicant files with the Board evidence of a policy of liability insurance which policy must provide for the following minimum coverage: fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) because of bodily injury or death of one person as a result of the negligent act or acts of the principal insured or his agents operating in the course and scope of his employment; subject to said limit for one person, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) because of bodily injury or death of two or more persons as the result of the negligent act or acts of the principal insured or his agent operating in the course and scope of his or her agency; twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) because of injury to or destruction of property of others as the result of the negligent act or acts of the principal insured or his agents operating in the course and scope of his or her agency.(e) An insurance carrier shall have the right to cancel such policy of liability insurance upon giving written notice to the Board within a reasonable time before the effective date of the cancellation. Provided, however, that such cancellation shall not affect any liability on the policy which accrued prior thereto. The policy of liability shall be approved by the Board as to form, execution, and terms thereon.(f) Every licensee shall at all times maintain on file with the Board a certificate of insurance required by this Chapter in full force and effect and upon failure to do so, the license of such licensee shall be automatically suspended and shall not be reinstated until an application therefor, in the form prescribed by the Board, is filed together with a proper insurance certificate. (1983, c. 786, s. 1; 1985, c. 561, s. 8; 1989, c. 730, s. 6; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 953, s. 8.)
NC Gen Stat § 74D-11 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 74D - Alarm Systems|Article 1 - Alarm Systems Licensing Act.|§ 74D-11 - Enforcement.

 74D-11. Enforcement.(a) The Board may apply in its own name to any judge of the Superior Court of the General Court of Justice for an injunction in order to prevent any violation or threatened violation of the provisions of this Chapter.(b) Any person, firm, association, corporation, or department or division of a firm, association, or corporation or their agents and employees violating any of the provisions of this Chapter is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The Attorney General, or the Attorney General's representative, has concurrent jurisdiction with the district attorneys of this State to prosecute violations of this Chapter.(c) The regulation of alarm systems businesses is exclusive to the Board; however, any city or county may require an alarm systems business operating within its jurisdiction to register and to supply information regarding its license and may adopt an ordinance to require users of alarm systems to obtain revocable permits when alarm usage involves automatic signal transmission to a law-enforcement agency.(d) In lieu of revocation of suspension of a license or registration under G.S. 74D-10, a civil penalty of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) may be assessed by the Board against any person that violates any provision of this Chapter or any rule of the Board adopted pursuant to this Chapter. In determining the amount of any penalty, the Board shall consider the degree and extent of harm caused by the violation. The clear proceeds of all penalties collected under this section shall be remitted to the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund in accordance with G.S. 115C-457.2.(e) Proceedings for the assessment of civil penalties are governed by Chapter 150B of the General Statutes. If the person assessed a penalty fails to pay the penalty to the Board, the Board may institute an action in the superior court of the county in which the person resides or has a principal place of business to recover the unpaid amount of the penalty. An action to recover a civil penalty under this section does not relieve any party from any other penalty prescribed by law.(f) The sale, installation, or service of an alarm system by an unlicensed or unregistered person constitutes a threat to the public safety, and any contract for the sale, installation, or service of an alarm system is void and unenforceable.  (1983, c. 786, s. 1; 1989, c. 730, s. 8; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 953, s. 10; 1993, c. 539, s. 558; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 1998-215, s. 127; 2009-557, s. 7; 2021-84, s. 4.)
NC Gen Stat § 74D-12 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 74D - Alarm Systems|Article 1 - Alarm Systems Licensing Act.|§ 74D-12 - Severability.

 74D-12. Severability.If any provision of this Chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is for any reason held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the Article which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Chapter are declared to be severable. (1983, c. 786, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 74D-13 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 74D - Alarm Systems|Article 1 - Alarm Systems Licensing Act.|§ 74D-13 - Transfer of funds.

 74D-13. Transfer of funds.All fees collected pursuant to Chapter 74C of the General Statutes from alarm systems businesses which have not been expended upon January 1, 1984, shall be transferred to the Board by the Private Protective Services Board for the purpose of defraying the expenses of administering this act. (1983, c. 786, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 74D-14 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 74D - Alarm Systems|Article 1 - Alarm Systems Licensing Act.|§ 74D-14 - Proof of licensure to maintain or commence action.

 74D-14. Proof of licensure to maintain or commence action.An alarm systems business may not maintain any action in any court of the State for the collection of compensation for performing an act for which a license or registration is required by this Chapter without alleging and proving that the alarm systems business is appropriately licensed and the employee or agent of the alarm systems business is appropriately registered upon entering into a contract with the consumer. An alarm systems installation, maintenance, or monitoring contract entered into with a consumer shall be void if the consumer confirms through records maintained by the Board that the alarm systems business is not properly licensed or the consumer establishes through records maintained by the Board that the person enticing the consumer to enter into the contract is not properly registered by the Board. The sale, installation, or service of an alarm system by an unlicensed or unregistered employee shall be deemed an unfair and deceptive trade practice and shall be actionable under Chapter 75 of the General Statutes.  (2009-557, s. 8.)
NC Gen Stat § 74D-30 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 74D - Alarm Systems|Article 2 - Alarm Systems Recovery Fund.|§ 74D-30 - Alarm Systems Education Fund created; payment to Fund; management; use of funds.

 74D-30. Alarm Systems Education Fund created; payment to Fund; management; use of funds.(a) There is hereby created and established a special fund to be known as the "Alarm Systems Education Fund" (hereinafter Fund) which shall be set aside and maintained in the office of the State Treasurer. The Fund shall be used in the manner provided in this Article for the education of licensees and registrants.(b) Repealed by Session Laws 2009-557, s. 10, effective October 1, 2009, and applicable to licenses or registrations issued or renewed on or after that date.(c) In addition to the fees provided for elsewhere in this Chapter, the Board shall charge the following fees which shall be deposited into the Fund:(1) On July 1, 1985, the Board shall charge every licensee on that date a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00);(2) The Board shall charge each new applicant for a license fifty dollars ($50.00), provided that for purposes of this Article a new applicant is hereby defined as an applicant who did not possess a license on July 1, 1985; and(3) The Board is authorized to charge each licensee an additional amount, not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00), on July 1 of any year in which the balance of the Fund is less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).(d) The State Treasurer shall invest and reinvest the moneys in the Fund in a manner provided by law. The Board in its discretion, may use the Fund for any of the following purposes:(1) To advance education and research in the alarm systems field for the benefit of those licensed under the provisions of this Chapter and for the improvement of the industry,(2) To underwrite educational seminars, training centers and other educational projects for the use and benefit generally of licensees, and(3) To sponsor, contract for and to underwrite any and all additional educational training and research projects of a similar nature having to do with the advancement of the alarm systems field in North Carolina.  (1985, c. 561, s. 7; 2009-557, s. 10.)
NC Gen Stat § 75-1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-1 - Combinations in restraint of trade illegal.

 75-1. Combinations in restraint of trade illegal.Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce in the State of North Carolina is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person or corporation who shall make any such contract expressly or shall knowingly be a party thereto by implication, or who shall engage in any such combination or conspiracy shall be guilty of a Class H felony. (1913, c. 41, s. 1; C.S., s. 2559; 1981, c. 764, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 75-1.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-1.1 - Methods of competition, acts and practices regulated; legislative policy.

 75-1.1. Methods of competition, acts and practices regulated; legislative policy.(a) Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are declared unlawful.(b) For purposes of this section, "commerce" includes all business activities, however denominated, but does not include professional services rendered by a member of a learned profession.(c) Nothing in this section shall apply to acts done by the publisher, owner, agent, or employee of a newspaper, periodical or radio or television station, or other advertising medium in the publication or dissemination of an advertisement, when the owner, agent or employee did not have knowledge of the false, misleading or deceptive character of the advertisement and when the newspaper, periodical or radio or television station, or other advertising medium did not have a direct financial interest in the sale or distribution of the advertised product or service.(d) Any party claiming to be exempt from the provisions of this section shall have the burden of proof with respect to such claim. (1969, c. 833; 1977, c. 747, ss. 1, 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 75-2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-2 - Any restraint in violation of common law included.

 75-2. Any restraint in violation of common law included.Any act, contract, combination in the form of trust, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce which violates the principles of the common law is hereby declared to be in violation of G.S. 75-1. (1913, c. 41, s. 2; C.S., s. 2560.)
NC Gen Stat § 75-2.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-2.1 - Monopolizing and attempting to monopolize prohibited.

 75-2.1. Monopolizing and attempting to monopolize prohibited.It is unlawful for any person to monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons to monopolize, any part of trade or commerce in the State of North Carolina. (1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 550, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 75-4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-4 - Contracts to be in writing.

 75-4. Contracts to be in writing.No contract or agreement hereafter made, limiting the rights of any person to do business anywhere in the State of North Carolina shall be enforceable unless such agreement is in writing duly signed by the party who agrees not to enter into any such business within such territory: Provided, nothing herein shall be construed to legalize any contract or agreement not to enter into business in the State of North Carolina, or at any point in the State of North Carolina, which contract is now illegal, or which contract is made illegal by any other section of this Chapter. (1913, c. 41, s. 4; C.S., s. 2562.)
NC Gen Stat § 75-8 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-8 - Continuous violations separate offenses.

 75-8. Continuous violations separate offenses.Where the things prohibited in this Chapter are continuous, then in such event, after the first violation of any of the provisions hereof, each week that the violation of such provision shall continue shall be a separate offense. (1913, c. 41, s. 7; C.S., s. 2566.)
NC Gen Stat § 75-9 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-9 - Duty of Attorney General to investigate.

 75-9. Duty of Attorney General to investigate.The Attorney General of the State of North Carolina shall have power, and it shall be his duty, to investigate, from time to time, the affairs of all corporations or persons doing business in this State, which are or may be embraced within the meaning of the statutes of this State defining and denouncing trusts and combinations against trade and commerce, or which he shall be of opinion are so embraced, and all other corporations or persons in North Carolina doing business in violation of law; and all other corporations of every character engaged in this State in the business of transporting property or passengers, or transmitting messages, and all other public service corporations of any kind or nature whatever which are doing business in the State for hire. Such investigation shall be with a view of ascertaining whether the law or any rule of the Utilities Commission or Commission of Banks [Commissioner of Banks] is being or has been violated by any such corporation, officers or agents or employees thereof, and if so, in what respect, with the purpose of acquiring such information as may be necessary to enable him to prosecute any such corporation, its agents, officers and employees for crime, or prosecute civil actions against them if he discovers they are liable and should be prosecuted. (1913, c. 41, s. 8; C.S., s. 2567; 1931, c. 243, s. 5; 1933, c. 134, s. 8; 1941, c. 97, s. 5; 1969, c. 833.)
NC Gen Stat § 75-10 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-10 - Power to compel examination.

 75-10. Power to compel examination.In performing the duty required in G.S. 75-9, the Attorney General shall have power, at any and all times, to require the officers, agents or employees of any such corporation or business, and all other persons having knowledge with respect to the matters and affairs of such corporations or businesses, to submit themselves to examination by him, and produce for his inspection any of the books and papers of any such corporations or businesses, or which are in any way connected with the business thereof; and the Attorney General is hereby given the right to administer oath to any person whom he may desire to examine. He shall also, if it may become necessary, have a right to apply to any justice or judge of the appellate or superior court divisions, after five days' notice of such application, for an order on any such person or corporation he may desire to examine to appear and subject himself or itself to such examination, and disobedience of such order shall constitute contempt, and shall be punishable as in other cases of disobedience of a proper order of such judge. (1913, c. 41, s. 9; C.S., s. 2568; 1969, c. 44, s. 56; c. 833.)
NC Gen Stat § 75-11 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-11 - Person examined exempt from prosecution.

 75-11. Person examined exempt from prosecution.No natural person examined, as provided in G.S. 75-10, shall be subject to indictment, criminal prosecution, criminal punishment or criminal penalty by reason of or on account of anything disclosed by him upon examination, and full immunity from criminal prosecution and criminal punishment by reason of or on account of anything so disclosed is hereby extended to all natural persons so examined. The immunity herein granted shall not apply to civil actions instituted pursuant to this Chapter. (1913, c. 41, s. 9; C.S., s. 2569; 1969, c. 833.)
NC Gen Stat § 75-12 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-12 - Refusal to furnish information; false swearing.

 75-12. Refusal to furnish information; false swearing.Any corporation or person unlawfully refusing or willfully neglecting to furnish the information required by this Chapter, when it is demanded as herein provided, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and only fined not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000): Provided, that if any corporation or person shall in writing notify the Attorney General that it objects to the time or place designated by him for the examination or inspection provided for in this Chapter, it shall be his duty to apply to a justice or judge of the appellate or superior court division, who shall fix an appropriate time and place for such examination or inspection, and such corporation or person shall, in such event, be guilty under this section only in the event of its failure, refusal or neglect to appear at the time and place so fixed by the judge and furnish the information required by this Chapter. False swearing by any person examined under the provisions of this Chapter is a Class I felony. (1913, c. 41, s. 10; C.S., s. 2570; 1969, c. 44, s. 57; c. 833; 1993, c. 539, ss. 560, 1284; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
NC Gen Stat § 75-13 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection|Article 1 - General Provisions.|§ 75-13 - Criminal prosecution; district attorneys to assist; expenses.

 75-13. Criminal prosecution; district attorneys to assist; expenses.The Attorney General in carrying out the provisions of this Chapter shall have a right to send bills of indictment before any grand jury in any county in which it is alleged this Chapter has been violated or in any adjoining county, and may take charge of and prosecute all cases coming within the purview of this Chapter, and shall have the power to call to his assistance in the performance of any of these duties of his office which he may assign to them any of the district attorneys in the State, who shall, upon being required to do so by the Attorney General, send bills of indictment and assist him in the performance of the duties of his office. (1913, c. 41, s. 13; C.S., s. 2571; 1973, c. 47, s. 2.)