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NC Gen Stat § 18C-173 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 18C - North Carolina State Lottery|Article 8 - Miscellaneous.|§ 18C-173 - Limits on compensation increases.

 18C-173. Limits on compensation increases.Notwithstanding G.S. 18C-114(a)(11) and G.S. 18C-120(b)(3), the Lottery Commission, during any fiscal year, may not expend funds for merit and performance-based salary increases in excess of the funds that would have been expended had the Lottery Commission employees received the same across-the-board salary increases granted by the General Assembly to State employees subject to the North Carolina Human Resources Act. These merit and performance-based salary increases may be awarded on an aggregated average basis according to rules adopted by the Lottery Commission.  (2008-107, s. 26.12A; 2013-382, s. 9.1(c).)
NC Gen Stat § 18C-174 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 18C - North Carolina State Lottery|Article 8 - Miscellaneous.|§ 18C-174 - Number of regional offices limited.

 18C-174. Number of regional offices limited.The Lottery Commission shall maintain no more than seven regional offices. A regional office may include a claims center, but in no event shall the Lottery Commission maintain more than seven regional offices as provided in this section.  (2015-241, s. 5.2(d).)
NC Gen Stat § 18C-175 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 18C - North Carolina State Lottery|Article 8 - Miscellaneous.|§ 18C-175 - Use of public assistance funds.

 18C-175. Use of public assistance funds.The Commission and all lottery game retailers are prohibited from accepting any form of public assistance funds for the purchase of any lottery ticket or participation in any lottery game.  (2015-241, s. 5.2(d).)
NC Gen Stat § 19-1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-1 - What are nuisances under this Chapter.

 19-1. What are nuisances under this Chapter.(a) The erection, establishment, continuance, maintenance, use, ownership or leasing of any building or place for the purpose of assignation, prostitution, gambling, illegal possession or sale of alcoholic beverages, illegal possession or sale of controlled substances as defined in the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act, or illegal possession or sale of obscene or lewd matter, as defined in this Chapter, shall constitute a nuisance. The activity sought to be abated need not be the sole purpose of the building or place in order for it to constitute a nuisance under this Chapter.(b) The erection, establishment, continuance, maintenance, use, ownership or leasing of any building or place wherein or whereon are carried on, conducted, or permitted repeated acts which create and constitute a breach of the peace shall constitute a nuisance.(b1) The erection, establishment, continuance, maintenance, use, ownership or leasing of any building or place wherein or whereon are carried on, conducted, or permitted repeated activities or conditions which violate a local ordinance regulating sexually oriented businesses so as to contribute to adverse secondary impacts shall constitute a nuisance.(b2) The erection, establishment, continuance, maintenance, use, ownership, or leasing of any building or place for the purpose of carrying on, conducting, or engaging in any activities in violation of G.S. 14-72.7.(c) The building, place, vehicle, or the ground itself, in or upon which a nuisance as defined in subsection (a), (b), or (b1) of this section is carried on, and the furniture, fixtures, and contents, are also declared a nuisance, and shall be enjoined and abated as hereinafter provided.(d) No nuisance action under this Article may be brought against a place or business which is subject to regulation under Chapter 18B of the General Statutes when the basis for the action constitutes a violation of laws or regulations under that Chapter pertaining to the possession or sale of alcoholic beverages.  (Pub. Loc. 1913, c. 761, s. 25; 1919, c. 288; C.S., s. 3180; 1949, c. 1164; 1967, c. 142; 1971, c. 655; 1977, c. 819, ss. 1, 2; 1981, c. 412, s. 4; c. 747, s. 66; 1998-46, s. 7; 1999-371, s. 1; 2007-178, s. 3; 2013-229, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-1.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-1.2 - Types of nuisances.

 19-1.2. Types of nuisances.The following are declared to be nuisances wherein obscene or lewd matter or other conduct prohibited in G.S. 19-1(a) is involved:(1) Any and every place in the State where lewd films are publicly exhibited as a predominant and regular course of business, or possessed for the purpose of such exhibition;(2) Any and every place in the State where a lewd film is publicly and repeatedly exhibited, or possessed for the purpose of such exhibition;(3) Any and every lewd film which is publicly exhibited, or possessed for such purpose at a place which is a nuisance under this Article;(4) Any and every place of business in the State in which lewd publications constitute a principal or substantial part of the stock in trade;(5) Any and every lewd publication possessed at a place which is a nuisance under this Article;(6) Every place which, as a regular course of business, is used for the purposes of lewdness, assignation, gambling, the illegal possession or sale of alcoholic beverages, the illegal possession or sale of controlled substances as defined in the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act, or prostitution, and every such place in or upon which acts of lewdness, assignation, gambling, the illegal possession or sale of alcoholic beverages, the illegal possession or sale of controlled substances as defined in the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act, or prostitution, are held or occur. (1977, c. 819, s. 3; 1981, c. 412, s. 4; c. 747, s. 66; 1999-371, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-1.3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-1.3 - Personal property as a nuisance; knowledge of nuisance.

 19-1.3. Personal property as a nuisance; knowledge of nuisance.The following are also declared to be nuisances, as personal property used in conducting and maintaining a nuisance under this Chapter:(1) All moneys paid as admission price to the exhibition of any lewd film found to be a nuisance;(2) All valuable consideration received for the sale of any lewd publication which is found to be a nuisance;(3) All money or other valuable consideration, vehicles, conveyances, or other property received or used in gambling, prostitution, the illegal sale of alcoholic beverages or the illegal sale of substances proscribed under the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act, as well as the furniture and movable contents of a place used in connection with such prohibited conduct.From and after service of a copy of the notice of hearing of the application for a preliminary injunction, provided for in G.S. 19-2.4 upon the place, or its manager, or acting manager, or person then in charge, all such parties are deemed to have knowledge of the contents of the restraining order and the use of the place occurring thereafter. Where the circumstantial proof warrants a determination that a person had knowledge of the nuisance prior to such service of process, the court may make such finding. (1977, c. 819, s. 3; 1981, c. 412, s. 4; c. 747, s. 66; 1999-371, s. 4.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-1.4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-1.4 - Liability of successive owners for continuing nuisance.

 19-1.4. Liability of successive owners for continuing nuisance.After notice of a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, or permanent injunction, every successive owner of property who neglects to abate a continuing nuisance upon, or in the use of such property, created by a former owner, is liable therefor in the same manner as the one who first created it. (1977, c. 819, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-1.5 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-1.5 - Abatement does not preclude action.

 19-1.5. Abatement does not preclude action.The abatement of a nuisance does not prejudice the right of any person to recover damages for its past existence. (1977, c. 819, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-2.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-2.1 - Action for abatement; injunction.

 19-2.1. Action for abatement; injunction.Wherever a nuisance is kept, maintained, or exists, as defined in this Article, the Attorney General, district attorney, county, municipality, or any private citizen of the county may maintain a civil action in the name of the State of North Carolina to abate a nuisance under this Chapter, perpetually to enjoin all persons from maintaining the same, and to enjoin the use of any structure or thing adjudged to be a nuisance under this Chapter; provided, however, that no private citizen may maintain such action where the alleged nuisance involves the illegal possession or sale of obscene or lewd matter.Upon request from the Attorney General, district attorney, county or municipality, including the sheriff or chief of police of any county or municipality, the Alcohol Law Enforcement Division of the Department of Public Safety or any other law enforcement agency with jurisdiction may investigate alleged public nuisances and make recommendations regarding actions to abate the public nuisances.If an action is instituted by a private person, the complainant shall execute a bond prior to the issuance of a restraining order or a temporary injunction, with good and sufficient surety to be approved by the court or clerk thereof, in the sum of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000), to secure to the party enjoined the damages he may sustain if such action is wrongfully brought, not prosecuted to final judgment, or is dismissed, or is not maintained, or if it is finally decided that the temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction ought not to have been granted. The party enjoined shall have recourse against said bond for all damages suffered, including damages to his property, person, or character and including reasonable attorney's fees incurred by him in making defense to said action. No bond shall be required of the prosecuting attorney, the Attorney General, county, or municipality, and no action shall be maintained against any public official or public entity, their employees, or agents for investigating or maintaining an action for abatement of a nuisance under the provisions of this Chapter.  (1977, c. 819, s. 4; 1995, c. 528, s. 1; 1999-371, s. 5; 2011-145, s. 19.1(g), (n); 2014-100, s. 17.1(xxx); 2019-203, s. 9(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 19-2.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-2.2 - Pleadings; jurisdiction; venue; application for preliminary injunction.

 19-2.2. Pleadings; jurisdiction; venue; application for preliminary injunction.The action, provided for in this Chapter, shall be brought in the superior court of the county in which the property is located. Such action shall be commenced by the filing of a verified complaint alleging the facts constituting the nuisance. After the filing of said complaint, application for a preliminary injunction may be made to the court in which the action is filed which court shall grant a hearing within 10 days after the filing of said application. (1977, c. 819, s. 4.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-2.3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-2.3 - Temporary order restraining removal of personal property from premises; service; punishment.

 19-2.3. Temporary order restraining removal of personal property from premises; service; punishment.Where such application for a preliminary injunction is made, the court may, on application of the complainant showing good cause, issue an ex parte temporary restraining order in accordance with G.S. 1A-1, Rule 65(b), preserving the status quo and restraining the defendant and all other persons from removing or in any manner interfering with any evidence specifically described, or in any manner removing or interfering with the personal property and contents of the place where such nuisance is alleged to exist, until the decision of the court granting or refusing such preliminary injunction and until further order of the court thereon. Nothing herein shall be interpreted to allow the prior restraint of the distribution of any matter or the sale of the stock in trade, but an inventory and full accounting of all business transactions involving alleged obscene or lewd matter thereafter shall be required. The inventory provisions provided by this section shall not apply to nuisances occurring at a private dwelling place unless the court finds the private dwelling place is used for profit.Any person, firm, or corporation enjoined pursuant to this section may file with the court a motion to dissolve any temporary restraining order. Such a motion shall be heard within 24 hours of the time a copy of the motion is served on the complaining party, or on the next day the superior courts are open in the district, whichever is later. At such hearing the complaining party shall have the burden of showing why the restraining order should be continued.In the event a temporary restraining order is issued, it may be served in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 1A-1, Rule 4, or may be served by handing to and leaving a copy of such order with any person in charge of such place or residing therein, or by posting a copy thereof in a conspicuous place at or upon one or more of the principal doors or entrances to such place, or by such service under said Rule 4, delivery and posting. The officer serving such temporary restraining order shall forthwith enter upon the property and make and return into court an inventory of the personal property and contents situated in and used in conducting or maintaining such nuisance.Any violation of such temporary restraining order is a contempt of court, and where such order is posted, mutilation or removal thereof, while the same remains in force, is a contempt of court, provided such posted order contains therein a notice to that effect. (1977, c. 819, s. 4; 1999-371, s. 6.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-2.4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-2.4 - Notice of hearing on preliminary injunction; consolidation.

 19-2.4. Notice of hearing on preliminary injunction; consolidation.A copy of the complaint, together with a notice of the time and place of the hearing of the application for a preliminary injunction, shall be served upon the defendant at least five days before such hearing. The place may also be served by posting such papers in the same manner as is provided for in G.S. 19-2.3 in the case of a temporary restraining order. If the hearing is then continued at the instance of any defendant, the temporary restraining order may be continued as a matter of course until the hearing.Before or after the commencement of the hearing of an application for a preliminary injunction, the court, on application of either of the parties or on its own motion, may order the trial of the action on the merits to be advanced and consolidated with the hearing on the application for the preliminary injunction; provided, however, the defendant shall be entitled to a jury trial if requested. (1977, c. 819, s. 4.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-2.5 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-2.5 - Hearing on the preliminary injunction; issuance.

 19-2.5. Hearing on the preliminary injunction; issuance.If upon hearing, the allegations of the complaint are sustained to the satisfaction of the court, the court shall issue a preliminary injunction restraining the defendant and any other person from continuing the nuisance and effectually enjoining its use thereafter for the purpose of conducting any such nuisance. The court may, in its discretion, order the closure of the property pending trial on the merits. (1977, c. 819, s. 4; 1999-371, s. 7.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-3 - Priority of action; evidence.

 19-3. Priority of action; evidence.(a) The action provided for in this Chapter shall be set down for trial at the first term of the court and shall have precedence over all other cases except crimes, election contests, or injunctions.(b) In such action, an admission or finding of guilt of any person under the criminal laws against lewdness, assignation, prostitution, gambling, breaches of the peace, the illegal possession or sale of alcoholic beverages, or the illegal possession or sale of substances proscribed by the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act, at any such place, is admissible for the purpose of proving the existence of said nuisance, and is evidence of such nuisance and of knowledge of, and of acquiescence and participation therein, on the part of the person charged with maintaining said nuisance.(c) At all hearings upon the merits, evidence of the general reputation of the building or place constituting the alleged nuisance, of the inmates thereof, and of those resorting thereto, is admissible for the purpose of proving the existence of such nuisance. (Pub. Loc. 1913, c. 761, s. 27; 1919, c. 288; C.S., s. 3182; 1971, c. 528, s. 6; 1973, c. 47, s. 2; 1977, c. 819, s. 5; 1981, c. 412, s. 4; c. 747, s. 66; 1999-371, s. 8.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-4 - Violation of injunction; punishment.

 19-4. Violation of injunction; punishment.In case of the violation of any injunction granted under the provisions of this Chapter, the court, or, in vacation, a judge thereof, may summarily try and punish the offender. A party found guilty of contempt under the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred ($200.00) or more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three or more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment. (Pub. Loc. 1913, c. 761, s. 28; 1919, c. 288; C.S., s. 3183.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-5 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-5 - Content of final judgment and order.

 19-5. Content of final judgment and order.If the existence of a nuisance is admitted or established in an action as provided for in this Chapter an order of abatement shall be entered as a part of the judgment in the case, which judgment and order shall perpetually enjoin the defendant and any other person from further maintaining the nuisance at the place complained of, and the defendant from maintaining such nuisance elsewhere within the jurisdiction of this State. Lewd matter, illegal alcoholic beverages, gambling paraphernalia, or substances proscribed under the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act shall be destroyed and not be sold.Such order may also require the effectual closing of the place against its use thereafter for the purpose of conducting any such nuisance.The provisions of this Article, relating to the closing of a place with respect to obscene or lewd matter, shall not apply in any order of the court to any theatre or motion picture establishment which does not, in the regular, predominant, and ordinary course of its business, show or demonstrate lewd films or motion pictures, as defined in this Article, but any such establishment may be permanently enjoined from showing such film judicially determined to be obscene hereunder and such film or motion picture shall be destroyed and all proceeds and moneys received therefrom, after the issuance of a preliminary injunction, forfeited. (Pub. Loc. 1913, c. 761, s. 29; 1919, c. 288; C.S., s. 3184; 1977, c. 819, s. 6; 1981, c. 412, s. 4; c. 747, s. 66.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-7 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-7 - How order of abatement may be canceled.

 19-7. How order of abatement may be canceled.If the owner appears and pays all cost of the proceeding and files a bond, with sureties to be approved by the clerk, in the full value of the property, to be ascertained by the court, or, in vacation, by the clerk of the superior court, conditioned that he will immediately abate said nuisance, and prevent the same from being established or kept within a period of one year thereafter, the court may, if satisfied of his good faith, order the premises closed under the order of abatement to be delivered to said owner, and said order of abatement canceled so far as same may relate to said property; and if the proceeding be a civil action, and said bond be given and costs therein paid before judgment and order of abatement, the action shall be thereby abated as to said building only. The release of the property under the provisions of this section shall not release it from any judgment, lien, penalty, or liability to which it may be subject by law. (Pub. Loc. 1913, c. 761, s. 31; 1919, c. 288; C.S., s. 3186.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-8 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-8 - Costs.

 19-8. Costs.The prevailing party shall be entitled to his costs. The court shall tax as part of the costs in any action brought hereunder such fee for the attorney prosecuting or defending the action or proceedings as may in the court's discretion be reasonable remuneration for the services performed by such attorney. (Pub. Loc. 1913, c. 761, s. 32; 1919, c. 288; C.S., s. 3187; 1977, c. 819, s. 8.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-8.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-8.1 - Immunity.

 19-8.1. Immunity.The provisions of any criminal statutes with respect to the exhibition of, or the possession with the intent to exhibit, any obscene film shall not apply to a motion picture projectionist, usher, or ticket taker acting within the scope of his employment, provided that such projectionist, usher, or ticket taker: (i) Has no financial interest in the place wherein he is so employed, and (ii) freely and willingly gives testimony regarding such employment in any judicial proceedings brought under this Chapter, including pretrial discovery proceedings incident thereto, when and if such is requested, and upon being granted immunity by the trial judge sitting in such matters. (1977, c. 819, s. 9.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-8.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-8.2 - Right of entry.

 19-8.2. Right of entry.Authorized representatives of the Commission for Public Health, any local health department or the Department of Health and Human Services, upon presenting appropriate credentials to the owner, operator, or agent in charge of a place described in G.S. 19-1.2, are authorized to enter without delay and at any reasonable time any such place in order to inspect and investigate during the regular hours of operation of such place. (1977, c. 819, s. 9; 1997-443, s. 11A.118(a); 2007-182, s. 2.)