2010 North Carolina Code
Chapter 42 Landlord and Tenant.
Article 7 - Expedited Eviction of Drug Traffickers and Other Criminals.
42-71. Protection of threatened witnesses or affiants.


NC Gen Stat § 42-71 What's This?

42‑71. Protection of threatened witnesses or affiants.

If proof necessary to establish the grounds for eviction depends, in whole or in part, upon the affidavits or testimony of witnesses who are not peace officers, the court may, upon a showing of prior threats of violence or acts of violence by any defendant or any other person, issue orders to protect those witnesses, including the nondisclosure of the name, address, or any other information which may identify those witnesses. (1995, c. 419, s. 1.)

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