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NC Gen Stat § 66-25 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4 - Electrical Materials, Devices, Appliances and Equipment.|§ 66-25 - Acceptable listings as to safety of goods.

 66-25. Acceptable listings as to safety of goods.(a) All electrical materials, devices, appliances, and equipment shall be evaluated for safety and suitability for intended use. Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, this evaluation shall be conducted in accordance with nationally recognized standards and shall be conducted by a qualified testing laboratory. The Commissioner of Insurance, through the Engineering Division of the Department of Insurance, shall implement the procedures necessary to approve suitable national standards and to approve suitable qualified testing laboratories. The Commissioner may assign his authority to implement the procedures for specific materials, devices, appliances, or equipment to other agencies or bodies when they would be uniquely qualified to implement those procedures.In the event that the Commissioner determines that electrical materials, devices, appliances, or equipment in question cannot be adequately evaluated through the use of approved national standards or by approved qualified testing laboratories, the Engineering Division of the Department of Insurance shall specify any alternative evaluations which safety requires.The Engineering Division of the Department of Insurance shall keep in file, where practical, copies of all approved national standards and resumes of approved qualified testing laboratories.(b) Electrical devices, appliances, or equipment used by the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety in institutional kitchens and manufacturing equipment used by Correction Enterprises are exempt from the evaluation requirement of subsection (a) of this section.(c) The Department of Administration, Division of Purchase and Contract, shall not seek to enforce the provisions of subsection (a) of this section by any means, including requiring acceptance inspections or additional testing of electrical materials, devices, appliances, or equipment purchased by State departments, agencies, and institutions.  (1933, c. 555, s. 3; 1989, c. 681, s. 1; 2013-289, s. 11; 2014-100, s. 16C.4; 2015-241, s. 16C.13A; 2017-186, s. 2(rrrr); 2017-211, s. 6(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 66-26 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4 - Electrical Materials, Devices, Appliances and Equipment.|§ 66-26 - Legal responsibility of proper installations unaffected.

 66-26. Legal responsibility of proper installations unaffected.This Article shall not be construed to relieve from or to lessen the responsibility or liability of any party owning, operating, controlling or installing any electrical materials, devices, appliances or equipment for damages to persons or property caused by any defect therein, nor shall the electrical inspector, the Commissioner, or agents of the Commissioner be held as assuming any such liability by reason of the approval of any material, device, appliance or equipment authorized herein. (1933, c. 555, s. 4; 1989, c. 681, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-27 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4 - Electrical Materials, Devices, Appliances and Equipment.|§ 66-27 - Violation made misdemeanor.

 66-27. Violation made misdemeanor.Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1933, c. 555, s. 5; 1989, c. 681, s. 1; 1993, c. 539, s. 509; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
NC Gen Stat § 66-27.01 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4 - Electrical Materials, Devices, Appliances and Equipment.|§ 66-27.01 - Enforcement.

 66-27.01. Enforcement.The Commissioner or his designee or the electrical inspector of any State or local governing agency may initiate any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent, restrain, or correct any violation of this Article. The Commissioner or his designee, upon showing proper credentials and in discharge of his duties pursuant to this Article may, at reasonable times and without advance notice, enter and inspect any facility within the State in which there is reasonable cause to suspect that electrical materials, devices, appliances, or equipment not in conformance with the requirements of this Article are being sold, offered for sale, assigned, or disposed of by gift, as premiums, or in any other similar manner. (1989, c. 681, s. 1; 1997-456, s. 27.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-27.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4A - Safety Features of Hot Water Heaters.|§ 66-27.1 - Certain automatic hot water tanks or heaters to have approved relief valves; installation or sale of unapproved relief valves forbidden.

 66-27.1. Certain automatic hot water tanks or heaters to have approved relief valves; installation or sale of unapproved relief valves forbidden.(a) No individual, firm, corporation or business shall install, sell or offer for sale any automatic hot water tank or heater of 120-gallon capacity or less, except for a tankless water heater, which does not have installed thereon by the manufacturer of the tank or heater an American Society of Mechanical Engineers and National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors approved type pressure-temperature relief valve set at or below the safe working pressure of the tank as indicated, and so labeled by the manufacturer's identification stamped or cast upon the tank or heater or upon a plate secured to it.(b) No individual, firm, corporation or business shall install, sell, or offer for sale any relief valve, whether it be pressure type, temperature type or pressure-temperature type, which does not carry the stamp of approval of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors. (1965, c. 860, s. 1; 1967, c. 453; 2004-199, s. 24.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-27.1A (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4A - Safety Features of Hot Water Heaters.|§ 66-27.1A - Water heater thermostat settings.

 66-27.1A. Water heater thermostat settings.(a) The thermostat of any new residential water heater offered for sale or lease for use in a single-family or multifamily dwelling in the State shall be preset by the manufacturer or installer no higher than approximately 120 degrees Fahrenheit (or 49 degrees Celsius). A water heater reservoir temperature may be set higher if it is supplying space heaters that require higher temperatures. For purposes of this section, a water heater shall mean the primary source of hot water for any single-family or multifamily residential dwelling including, but not limited to any solar or other hot water heating systems.(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the occupant of a single-family or multiunit residential dwelling with an individual water heater from resetting or having reset the thermostat on the water heater. Any such resetting shall relieve the manufacturer or installer of the water heater and, in the case of a residential dwelling that is leased or rented, also the unit's owner, from liability for damages attributed to the resetting.(c) A warning tag or sticker shall be placed on or near the operating thermostat control of any residential water heater. This tag or sticker shall state that the thermostat settings above the preset temperature may cause severe burns. This tag or sticker may carry such other appropriate warnings as may be agreed upon by manufacturers, installers, and other interested parties. (1991, c. 190, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-27.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4A - Safety Features of Hot Water Heaters.|§ 66-27.2 - Certain hot water supply storage tank or heater baffles, heat traps, etc., to be tested before installation or sale.

 66-27.2. Certain hot water supply storage tank or heater baffles, heat traps, etc., to be tested before installation or sale.(a) No individual, firm, corporation or business shall install, sell or offer for sale any hot water supply storage tanks or heaters of 120-gallon capacity or less which utilize dip tubes, supply and hot water nipples, supply water baffles or heat traps that have not been tested to withstand a temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit without deteriorating in any manner, and such tank or heater so labeled by the manufacturer.(b) No individual, firm, corporation or business shall install, sell, or offer for sale any water baffles or heat traps, which are not constructed and tested to withstand a temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit without deterioration in any manner and such baffles or heat traps to be so labeled by the manufacturer. (1965, c. 860, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-27.3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4A - Safety Features of Hot Water Heaters.|§ 66-27.3 - Violation of Article made misdemeanor.

 66-27.3. Violation of Article made misdemeanor.Violation of any provision of this Article is hereby made a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1965, c. 860, s. 3; 1993, c. 539, s. 510; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
NC Gen Stat § 66-27.4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4A - Safety Features of Hot Water Heaters.|§ 66-27.4 - Local regulation of hot water heater safety features.

 66-27.4. Local regulation of hot water heater safety features.Nothing in this Article shall be interpreted as relieving any individual, firm, corporation or business from complying with additional protective regulations relating to the safety features of hot water heaters as may be prescribed by local law, county or municipal charter or ordinance; provided, however, that no local law, county or municipal charter or ordinance shall fix or govern the temperature or pressure settings of a pressure-temperature relief valve on an automatic hot water tank or heater covered by this Article if there is installed on such tank or heater a pressure-temperature relief valve having settings in compliance with the North Carolina Building Code. (1965, c. 860, s. 4.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-27.5 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4B - Safety Features of Trailers.|§ 66-27.5 - House trailers to have two doors.

 66-27.5. House trailers to have two doors.(a) In order to provide greater protection from the dangers of fire, every new house trailer having a body length exceeding 32 feet and manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1970, and sold in this State shall, if such house trailer is to be used as a residence or dwelling within this State, be equipped with at least two doors. These doors shall be located in the vicinity of the front and rear rooms of the house trailer. Provided, however, this section shall not apply: to any (i) travel trailer which is factory equipped for the road and designed to be used as a dwelling for travel, recreational or vacation use, if such travel trailer does not exceed 32 feet in length; (ii) to any house trailer of any length sold in North Carolina for use in a state other than North Carolina.(b) It shall be unlawful for any dealer to sell in this State any house trailer manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1970, having a body length exceeding 32 feet which does not conform to the specifications set forth in subsection (a). Any dealer who violates this section shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. (1969, c. 463; 1993, c. 539, s. 511; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
NC Gen Stat § 66-27A (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 4B - Safety Features of Trailers.|§ 66-27A - Recodified as 66-27.01 by Session Laws 1997-456, s. 27.

 66-27A: Recodified as 66-27.01 by Session Laws 1997-456, s. 27.
NC Gen Stat § 66-28 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 5 - Sale of Phonograph Records or Electrical Transcriptions.|§ 66-28 - Prohibition of rights to further restrict or to collect royalties on commercial use.

 66-28. Prohibition of rights to further restrict or to collect royalties on commercial use.When any phonograph record or electrical transcription, upon which musical performances are embodied, is sold in commerce for use within this State, all asserted common-law rights to further restrict or to collect royalties on the commercial use made of such recorded performances by any person is hereby abrogated and expressly repealed. When such article or chattel has been sold in commerce, any asserted intangible rights shall be deemed to have passed to the purchaser upon the purchase of the chattel itself, and the right to further restrict the use made of phonograph records or electrical transcriptions, whose sole value is in their use, is hereby forbidden and abrogated.Nothing in this section shall be deemed to deny the rights granted any person by the United States copyright laws. The sole intendment of this enactment is to abolish any common-law rights attaching to phonograph records and electrical transcriptions, whose sole value is in their use, and to forbid further restrictions of the collection of subsequent fees and royalties on phonograph records and electrical transcriptions by performers who were paid for the initial performance at the recording thereof. (1939, c. 113.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-35 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 8 - Public Warehouses.|§ 66-35 - Who may become public warehousemen.

 66-35. Who may become public warehousemen.Any person or any corporation organized under the laws of this State whose charter authorizes it to engage in the business of a warehouseman may become a public warehouseman and authorized to keep and maintain public warehouses for the storage of cotton, goods, wares, and other merchandise as hereinafter prescribed upon giving the bond hereinafter required. (1901, c. 678; Rev., s. 3029; 1919, c. 212; C.S., s. 5118.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-36 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 8 - Public Warehouses.|§ 66-36 - Bond required.

 66-36. Bond required.Every person or every corporation organized under G.S. 66-35, to become a public warehouseman, except such as shall have a capital stock of not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000), shall give bond in a reliable bonding or surety company, or an individual bond with sufficient sureties, payable to the State of North Carolina, in an amount not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), to be approved, filed with and recorded by the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the warehouse is located, for the faithful performance of the duties of a public warehouseman; but if such person or corporation has a capital stock of not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000), then it shall not be required to give the bond mentioned in this section. (1901, c. 678, s. 2; 1905, c. 540; Rev., s. 3030; 1908, c. 56; 1919, c. 212; C.S., s. 5119.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-37 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 8 - Public Warehouses.|§ 66-37 - Person injured may sue on bond.

 66-37. Person injured may sue on bond.Whenever such warehouseman fails to perform any duty or violates any of the provisions of this Article, any person injured by such failure or violation may bring an action in his name and to his own use in any court of competent jurisdiction on the bond of said warehouseman. (1901, c. 678, s. 3; Rev., s. 3031; C.S., s. 5120.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-38 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 8 - Public Warehouses.|§ 66-38 - When insurance required; storage receipts.

 66-38. When insurance required; storage receipts.Every such warehouseman shall, when requested thereto in writing by a party placing property with it on storage, cause such property to be insured; every such warehouseman shall give to each person depositing property with it for storage a receipt therefor. (1901, c. 678, s. 4; 1905, c. 540, s. 2; Rev., s. 3032; C.S., s. 5121.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-39 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 8 - Public Warehouses.|§ 66-39 - Books of account kept; open to inspection.

 66-39. Books of account kept; open to inspection.Every such warehouseman shall keep a book in which shall be entered an account of all its transactions relating to warehousing, storing, and insuring cotton, goods, wares and merchandise, and to the issuing of receipts therefor, which books shall be open to the inspection of any person actually interested in the property to which such entry relates. (1901, c. 678, s. 7; Rev., s. 3035; C.S., s. 5122.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-40 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 8 - Public Warehouses.|§ 66-40 - Unlawful disposition of property stored.

 66-40. Unlawful disposition of property stored.If any person unlawfully sells, pledges, lends, or in any other way disposes of or permits or is a party to the unlawful selling, pledging, lending, or other disposition of any goods, wares, merchandise, or anything deposited in a public warehouse, without the authority of the party who deposited the same, he shall be punished by a fine not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) and by imprisonment in the State's prison for not more than three years; but no officer, manager, or agent of such public warehouse shall be liable to the penalties provided in this section unless, with the intent to injure or defraud any person, he so sells, pledges, lends, or in any other way disposes of the same, or is a party to the selling, pledging, lending, or other disposition of any goods, wares, merchandise, article, or thing so deposited. (1901, c. 678, s. 11; Rev., s. 3831; C.S., s. 5123.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-41 through 66-49 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 9 - Collection of Accounts.|§ 66-41 through 66-49 - through 66-49: Recodified as §§ 66-49.24 through 66-49.50.

 66-41 through 66-49: Recodified as 66-49.24 through 66-49.50.
NC Gen Stat § 66-49.9 through 66-49.23 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 9B - Motor Clubs and Associations.|§ 66-49.9 through 66-49.23 - through 66-49.23: Recodified as Article 69 of Chapter 58.

 66-49.9 through 66-49.23: Recodified as Article 69 of Chapter 58.
NC Gen Stat § 66-49.24 through 66-49.50 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 9C - Collection Agencies.|§ 66-49.24 through 66-49.50 - through 66-49.50: Recodified as Article 70 of Chapter 58.

 66-49.24 through 66-49.50: Recodified as Article 70 of Chapter 58.
NC Gen Stat § 66-57.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 10A - Inventions Developed by Employee.|§ 66-57.1 - Employee's right to certain inventions.

 66-57.1. Employee's right to certain inventions.Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that the employee shall assign or offer to assign any of his rights in an invention to his employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facility or trade secret information except for those inventions that (i) relate to the employer's business or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (ii) result from any work performed by the employee for the employer. To the extent a provision in an employment agreement purports to apply to the type of invention described, it is against the public policy of this State and is unenforceable. The employee shall bear the burden of proof in establishing that his invention qualifies under this section. (1981, c. 488, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-57.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 10A - Inventions Developed by Employee.|§ 66-57.2 - Employer's rights.

 66-57.2. Employer's rights.(a) An employer may not require a provision of an employment agreement made unenforceable under G.S. 66-57.1 as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer, in an employment agreement, may require that the employee report all inventions developed by the employee, solely or jointly, during the term of his employment to the employer, including those asserted by the employee as nonassignable, for the purpose of determining employee or employer rights.(b) An employer's ownership of an employee's invention, discovery, or development that has or becomes vested in the employer by contract or by operation of law shall not be subject to revocation or rescission in the event of a dispute between the employer and employee concerning payment of compensation or benefits to the employee, subject to any contrary provision in the employee's written employment agreement. The foregoing provision shall not apply where the employee proves that the employer acquired ownership of the employee's invention, discovery, or development fraudulently.(c) If required by a contract between the employer and the United States or its agencies, the employer may require that full title to certain patents and inventions be in the United States.  (1981, c. 488, s. 1; 2016-114, s. 4.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-58.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 11A - Electronic Commerce In Government.|§ 66-58.1 - Title; purpose.

 66-58.1. Title; purpose.This Article shall be known and may be cited as the Electronic Commerce Act. The purpose of this Article is to facilitate electronic commerce with public agencies and regulate the application of electronic signatures when used in commerce with public agencies. (1998-127, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 66-58.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business|Article 11A - Electronic Commerce In Government.|§ 66-58.2 - Definitions.

 66-58.2. Definitions.The following definitions apply in this Article:(1) "Certification authority" means a person authorized by the Secretary to facilitate electronic commerce by vouching for the relationship between a person or public agency and that person's or public agency's electronic signature.(2) "Electronic signature" means any identifier or authentication technique attached to or logically associated with an electronic record which is intended by the party using it to have the same force and effect as the party's manual signature.(3) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, or combination thereof of whatsoever form or character.(4) "Public agencies" means and includes every public office, public officer or official (State or local, elected or appointed), institution, board, commission, bureau, council, department, authority, or other unit of government of the State or of any county, unit, special district, or other political subdivision of government.(5) "Secretary" means Secretary of State.(6) "Transaction" means an electronic transmission of data between a person and a public agency, or between public agencies, including, but not limited to, contracts, filings, and legally operative documents. (1998-127, s. 1.)