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NC Gen Stat § 19-8.3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-8.3 - Severability.

 19-8.3. Severability.If any section, subsection, sentence, or clause of this Article is adjudged to be unconstitutional or invalid, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this Article. It is hereby declared that this Article would have been passed, and each section, sentence, or clause thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences or clauses might be adjudged to be unconstitutional, or for any other reason invalid. (1977, c. 819, s. 10.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-8.4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.|§ 19-8.4 - Human trafficking public awareness sign.

 19-8.4. Human trafficking public awareness sign.The owner, operator, or agent in charge of a business described in G.S. 19-1.2 shall prominently display on the premises in a place that is clearly conspicuous and visible to employees and the public a public awareness sign created and provided by the North Carolina Human Trafficking Commission that contains the National Human Trafficking Resource hotline information.  (2017-57, s. 17.4(c); 2017-197, s. 5.8.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-9 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-9 - Title.

 19-9. Title.This Article shall be known and cited as the North Carolina Law on the Protection of Minors from Harmful Materials. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-10 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-10 - Purposes.

 19-10. Purposes.The purposes of this Article are to provide district attorneys with a speedy civil remedy for obtaining a judicial determination of the character and contents of publications, and with an effective power to enjoin promptly the sale of harmful materials to minors. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1; 1971, c. 528, s. 7; 1973, c. 47, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-11 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-11 - Public policy.

 19-11. Public policy.The public policy of this State requires that all proceedings prescribed in this Article shall be examined, heard and disposed of with the maximum promptness and dispatch commensurate with constitutional requirements, including due process, freedom of the press and freedom of speech. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-12 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-12 - Definitions.

 19-12. Definitions.As used within this Article, the following definitions shall apply:(1) "Harmful Material".-a. Any picture, photograph, drawing, or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of the human body which depicts nudity, sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse, and which is harmful to minors, orb. Any book, pamphlet, magazine, or printed matter however reproduced which contains any matter enumerated in subparagraph a of this subdivision or which contains explicit or detailed verbal descriptions or accounts of sexual excitement, sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse, and which, taken as a whole, is harmful to minors.(2) "Harmful to minors". - That quality of any description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, when it:a. Predominantly appeals to the prurient, shameful or morbid interest of minors, andb. Is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable materials for minors, andc. Is utterly without redeeming social importance for minors.(3) "Knowledge of the Minor's Age".-a. Knowledge or information that the person is a minor, orb. Reason to know, or a belief or ground for belief which warrants further inspection or inquiry as to, the age of the minor.(4) "Knowledge of the Nature of the Material".-a. Knowledge of the character and content of any material described herein, orb. Knowledge or information that the material described herein has been adjudged to be harmful to minors in a proceeding instituted pursuant to this Article, or is the subject of a pending proceeding instituted pursuant to this Article.(5) "Minor".-Any person under the age of 18 years.(6) "Nudity".-The showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a full opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.(7) "Person".-Any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or other legal entity.(8) "Sadomasochistic abuse".-Flagellation or torture by or upon a person clad in undergarments, a mask or a bizarre costume, or the condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the part of one so clothed.(9) "Sexual conduct".-Acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, breast.(10) "Sexual excitement".-The condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-13 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-13 - Commencement of civil proceeding.

 19-13. Commencement of civil proceeding.(a) Whenever the district attorney for any prosecutorial district has reasonable cause to believe that any person is engaged in selling, distributing or disseminating in any manner harmful material to minors or may become engaged in selling, distributing or disseminating in any manner harmful material to minors, the district attorney for the prosecutorial district in which such material is so offered for sale shall institute an action in the district court for that district for adjudication of the question of whether such material is harmful to minors.(b) The provisions of the Rules of Civil Procedure and all existing and future amendments of said Rules shall apply to all proceedings herein, except as otherwise provided in this Article. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1; 1971, c. 528, s. 8; 1973, c. 47, s. 2; 1987 (Reg. Sess., 1988), c. 1037, s. 73.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-14 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-14 - Filing and form of complaint.

 19-14. Filing and form of complaint.The action authorized by this Article shall be commenced by the filing of a complaint to which shall be attached, as an exhibit, a true copy of the allegedly harmful material. The complaint shall:(1) Be directed against such material by name, description, volume, and issue, as appropriate;(2) Allege that such material is harmful to minors;(3) Designate as respondents, and list the names and all known addresses of any person in this State preparing, selling, offering, commercially distributing or disseminating in any manner such material to minors, or possessing such material with the apparent intent to offer to sell or commercially distribute or disseminate in any manner such material to minors;(4) Seek an adjudication that such material is harmful to minors; and(5) Seek a permanent injunction against any respondent prohibiting him from selling, commercially distributing, or disseminating in any manner such material to minors or from permitting minors to inspect such material. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-15 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-15 - Examination by the court; probable cause; service of summons.

 19-15. Examination by the court; probable cause; service of summons.(a) Upon the filing of a complaint pursuant to this Article, the district attorney shall present the same, together with attached exhibits, as soon as practicable to the court for its examination and reading.(b) If, after such examination and reading, the court finds no probable cause to believe such material to be harmful to minors, the court shall cause an endorsement to that effect to be placed and dated upon the complaint and shall thereupon dismiss the action.(c) If, after such examination and reading, the court finds probable cause to believe such material to be harmful to minors, the court shall enter an order to that effect whereupon it shall be the responsibility of the district attorney promptly to cause the clerk of the superior court to issue summonses together with copies of said order and said complaint as are needed for the service of the same upon respondents. Service of such summons, order and complaint shall be made upon each respondent thereto in any manner provided by law for the service of civil process. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1; 1971, c. 528, s. 8; 1973, c. 47, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-16 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-16 - Appearance and answer; default judgment.

 19-16. Appearance and answer; default judgment.(a) On or before the return date specified in the summons issued pursuant to this Article, or within 15 days after the service of such summons, or within 15 days after receiving actual notice of the issuance of such summons, the author, publisher or any person interested in sending or causing to be sent, bringing or causing to be brought, into this State for sale or distribution or disseminating in any manner, or any person in this State preparing, selling, offering, exhibiting or commercially distributing, or disseminating in any manner or possessing with intent to sell, offer or commercially distribute or exhibit or disseminate in any manner the material attached as an exhibit to the endorsed complaint, may appear and may intervene as a respondent and file an answer.(b) If, after service of summons has been effected upon all respondents, no person appears and files an answer on or before the return date specified in the summons, the court may forthwith adjudge whether the material so exhibited to the endorsed complaint is harmful to minors and enter an appropriate final judgment. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-17 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-17 - Trial.

 19-17. Trial.(a) Upon the expiration of the time for filing answers by all respondents, but not later than the return date specified in the summons, the court shall, upon its own motion, or upon the application of any party who has appeared and filed an answer, set a date for the trial of the issues joined.(b) Any respondent named in the complaint, or any person who becomes a respondent by virtue of intervention pursuant to this Article, shall be entitled to a trial of the issues within one day after joinder of issue. A decision shall be rendered by the court or jury, as the case may be, within two days of the conclusion of the trial.(c) Every person appearing and answering as a respondent shall be entitled, upon request, to a trial of any issue by a jury. If a jury is not requested by any such respondent, the issues shall be tried by the court without a jury. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-18 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-18 - Judgment; limitation to district.

 19-18. Judgment; limitation to district.(a) In the event that the court or jury, as the case may be, fails to find the material attached as an exhibit to the complaint to be harmful to minors, the court shall enter judgment accordingly and shall dismiss the complaint.(b) In the event that the court or jury, as the case may be, finds the material attached as an exhibit to the complaint to be harmful to minors, the court shall enter judgment to such effect and may, in such judgment or in subsequent orders of enforcement thereof, enter a permanent injunction against any respondent prohibiting him from selling, commercially distributing, or giving away such material to minors or from permitting minors to inspect such material.(c) No interlocutory order, judgment, or subsequent order of enforcement thereof, entered pursuant to the provisions of this Article, shall be of any force and effect outside the district court district in which entered; and no such order or judgment shall be res judicata in any proceeding in any other district court district. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1; 1987 (Reg. Sess., 1988), c. 1037, s. 74.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-19 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-19 - Injunctions.

 19-19. Injunctions.(a) If the court finds probable cause to believe the exhibited material to be harmful to minors, and so enters an order, the court may, upon the motion of the district attorney, issue a temporary restraining order against any respondent prohibiting him from offering, selling, commercially distributing or disseminating in any manner such material to minors or from permitting minors to inspect such material. No temporary restraining order shall be granted without notice to the respondents unless it clearly appears from specific facts shown by affidavit or by the verified complaint that one or more of the respondents are engaged in the sale, distribution or dissemination of harmful material to minors and that immediate and irreparable injury to the morals and general welfare of minors in this State will result before notice can be served and a hearing had thereon.(b) Every temporary restraining order shall be endorsed with the date and hour of issuance; shall be filed forthwith in the clerk's office and entered of record; shall define the injury and state why it is irreparable and why the order was granted without notice; and shall expire by its own terms within such time after entry, not to exceed three days, as the court fixes unless within the time so fixed the respondent against whom the order is directed consents that it may be extended for a longer period.(c) In the event that a temporary restraining order is granted without notice, a motion for a preliminary injunction shall be set down for hearing within two days after the granting of such order and shall take precedence over all matters except older matters of the same character; and when the motion comes on for hearing, the district attorney shall proceed with the application for a preliminary injunction and, if he does not do so, the court shall dissolve the restraining order.(d) No preliminary injunction shall be issued without at least two days' notice to the respondents. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1; 1971, c. 528, s. 8; 1973, c. 47, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 19-20 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals|Article 2 - Civil Remedy for Sales of Harmful Materials to Minors.|§ 19-20 - Contempt; defenses; extradition.

 19-20. Contempt; defenses; extradition.(a) Any respondent, or any officer, agent, servant, employee or attorney of such respondent, or any person in active concert or participation by contract or arrangement with such respondent, who receives actual notice by personal service or otherwise of any restraining order or injunction entered pursuant to this Article, and who shall disobey any of the provisions thereof, shall be guilty of contempt of court and upon conviction after notice and hearing shall be sentenced as provided by law.(b) No person shall be guilty of contempt pursuant to this section:(1) For any sale, distribution or dissemination to a minor where such person had reasonable cause to believe that the minor involved was 18 years old or more, and such minor exhibited to such person a draft card, driver's license, birth certificate or other official or apparently official document purporting to establish that such minor was 18 years old or more;(2) For any sale, distribution or dissemination where a minor is accompanied by a parent or guardian, or accompanied by an adult and such person has no reason to suspect that the adult accompanying the minor is not the minor's parent or guardian;(3) Where such person is a bona fide school, museum or public library or is acting in his capacity as an employee of such organization or as a retail outlet affiliated with and serving the educational purposes of such organization.(c) In the event that any person found guilty of contempt pursuant to this section cannot be found within this State, the executive authority of this State shall, unless such person shall have appealed from the judgment of contempt and such appeal has not been finally determined, demand his extradition from the executive authority of the state in which such person may be found, pursuant to the law of this State. (1969, c. 1215, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 19A-1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19A - Protection of Animals|Article 1 - Civil Remedy for Protection of Animals.|§ 19A-1 - Definitions.

 19A-1. Definitions.The following definitions apply in this Article:(1) The term "animals" includes every living vertebrate in the classes Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, and Mammalia except human beings.(2) The terms "cruelty" and "cruel treatment" include every act, omission, or neglect whereby unjustifiable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted.(3) The term "person" has the same meaning as in G.S. 12-3. (1969, c. 831; 1979, c. 808, s. 2; 1995, c. 509, s. 19; 2003-208, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 19A-1.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19A - Protection of Animals|Article 1 - Civil Remedy for Protection of Animals.|§ 19A-1.1 - Exemptions.

 19A-1.1. Exemptions.This Article shall not apply to the following:(1) The lawful taking of animals under the jurisdiction and regulation of the Wildlife Resources Commission, except that this Article applies to those birds other than pigeons exempted by the Wildlife Resources Commission from its definition of "wild birds" pursuant to G.S. 113-129(15a).(2) Lawful activities conducted for purposes of biomedical research or training or for purposes of production of livestock, poultry, or aquatic species.(3) Lawful activities conducted for the primary purpose of providing food for human or animal consumption.(4) Activities conducted for lawful veterinary purposes.(5) The lawful destruction of any animal for the purposes of protecting the public, other animals, or the public health.(6) Lawful activities for sport.(7) The taking and holding in captivity of a wild animal by a licensed sportsman for use or display in an annual, seasonal, or cultural event, so long as the animal is captured from the wild and returned to the wild at or near the area where it was captured.  (2003-208, s. 1; 2013-3, s. 3; 2015-286, s. 4.32(b).)
NC Gen Stat § 19A-2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19A - Protection of Animals|Article 1 - Civil Remedy for Protection of Animals.|§ 19A-2 - Purpose.

 19A-2. Purpose.It shall be the purpose of this Article to provide a civil remedy for the protection and humane treatment of animals in addition to any criminal remedies that are available and it shall be proper in any action to combine causes of action against one or more defendants for the protection of one or more animals. A real party in interest as plaintiff shall be held to include any person even though the person does not have a possessory or ownership right in an animal; a real party in interest as defendant shall include any person who owns or has possession of an animal. Venue for any action filed under this Article shall only be in the county where any violation is alleged to have occurred.  (1969, c. 831; 1995, c. 509, s. 20; 2003-208, s. 1; 2013-3, s. 4; 2013-410, s. 4.1.)
NC Gen Stat § 19A-3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 19A - Protection of Animals|Article 1 - Civil Remedy for Protection of Animals.|§ 19A-3 - Preliminary injunction; care of animal pending hearing on the merits.

 19A-3. Preliminary injunction; care of animal pending hearing on the merits.(a) Upon the filing of a verified complaint in the district court in the county in which cruelty to an animal has allegedly occurred, the judge may, as a matter of discretion, issue a preliminary injunction in accordance with the procedures set forth in G.S. 1A-1, Rule 65. Every such preliminary injunction, if the plaintiff so requests, may give the plaintiff the right to provide suitable care for the animal. If it appears on the face of the complaint that the condition giving rise to the cruel treatment of an animal requires the animal to be removed from its owner or other person who possesses it, then it shall be proper for the court in the preliminary injunction to allow the plaintiff to take possession of the animal as custodian.(b) The plaintiff as custodian may employ a veterinarian to provide necessary medical care for the animal without any additional court order. Prior to taking such action, the plaintiff as custodian shall consult with, or attempt to consult with, the defendant in the action, but the plaintiff as custodian may authorize such care without the defendant's consent. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the plaintiff as custodian may not have an animal euthanized without written consent of the defendant or a court order that authorizes euthanasia upon the court's finding that the animal is suffering due to terminal illness or terminal injury.(c) The plaintiff as custodian may place an animal with a foster care provider. The foster care provider shall return the animal to the plaintiff as custodian on demand. (1969, c. 831; 1971, c. 528, s. 10; 1979, c. 808, s. 3; 2003-208, s. 1; 2006-113, s. 1.1.)