2005 North Carolina Code - Chapter 42 — Landlord and Tenant.

• § 42-1. Lessor and lessee not partners.
• § 42-2. Attornment unnecessary on conveyance of reversions, etc.
• § 42-3. Term forfeited for nonpayment of rent.
• § 42-4. Recovery for use and occupation.
• § 42-5. Rent apportioned, where lease terminated by death.
• § 42-6. Rents, annuities, etc., apportioned, where right to payment terminated by death.
• § 42-7. In lieu of emblements, farm lessee holds out year, with rents apportioned.
• § 42-8. Grantees of reversion and assigns of lease have reciprocal rights under covenants.
• § 42-9. Agreement to rebuild, how construed in case of fire.
• § 42-10. Tenant not liable for accidental damage.
• § 42-11. Willful destruction by tenant misdemeanor.
• § 42-12. Lessee may surrender, where building destroyed or damaged.
• § 42-13. Wrongful surrender to other than landlord misdemeanor.
• § 42-14. Notice to quit in certain tenancies.
• § 42-14.1. Rent control.
• § 42-14.2. Death, illness, or conviction of certain crimes not a material fact.
• § 42-14.3. Notice of conversion of manufactured home communities.

• § 42-15. Landlord's lien on crops for rents, advances, etc.; enforcement.
• § 42-15.1. Landlord's lien on crop insurance for rents, advances, etc.; enforcement.
• § 42-16. Rights of tenants.
• § 42-17. Action to settle dispute between parties.
• § 42-18. Tenant's undertaking on continuance or appeal.
• § 42-19. Crops delivered to landlord on his undertaking.
• § 42-20. Crops sold, if neither party gives undertaking.
• § 42-21. Tenant's crop not subject to execution against landlord.
• § 42-22. Unlawful seizure by landlord or removal by tenant misdemeanor.
• § 42-22.1. Failure of tenant to account for sales under tobacco marketing cards.
• § 42-23. Terms of agricultural tenancies in certain counties.
• § 42-24. Turpentine and lightwood leases.
• § 42-25. Mining and timberland leases.
• §§ 42-25.1 through 42-25.5: Reserved for future codification purposes.

• § 42-25.6. Manner of ejectment of residential tenants.
• § 42-25.7. Distress and distraint not permitted.
• § 42-25.8. Contrary lease provisions.
• § 42-25.9. Remedies.

• § 42-26. Tenant holding over may be dispossessed in certain cases.
• § 42-26.1: Expired.
• § 42-27. Local: Refusal to perform contract ground for dispossession.
• § 42-28. Summons issued by clerk.
• § 42-29. Service of summons.
• § 42-30. Judgment by confession, where plaintiff has proved case, or failure to appear.
• § 42-31. Trial by magistrate.
• § 42-32. Damages assessed to trial.
• § 42-33. Rent and costs tendered by tenant.
• § 42-34. Undertaking on appeal and order staying execution.
• § 42-34.1. Rent pending execution of judgment; post bond pending appeal.
• § 42-35. Restitution of tenant, if case quashed, etc., on appeal.
• § 42-36. Damages to tenant for dispossession, if proceedings quashed, etc.
• § 42-36.1. Lease or rental of manufactured homes.
• § 42-36.1A. Judgments for possession more than 30 days old.
• § 42-36.2. Notice to tenant of execution of writ for possession of property; storage of evicted tenant's personal property.

• § 42-37: Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 533, s. 11.

• § 42-37.1. Defense of retaliatory eviction.
• § 42-37.2. Remedies.
• § 42-37.3. Waiver.

• § 42-38. Application.
• § 42-39. Exclusions.
• § 42-40. Definitions.
• § 42-41. Mutuality of obligations.
• § 42-42. Landlord to provide fit premises.
• § 42-42.1. Water Conservation.
• § 42-42.2. Victim protection - nondiscrimination.
• § 42-42.3. Victim protection - change locks.
• § 42-43. Tenant to maintain dwelling unit.
• § 42-44. General remedies, penalties, and limitations.
• § 42-45. Early termination of rental agreement by military personnel.
• § 42-45.1. Early termination of rental agreement by victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
• § 42-46. Late fees.
• §§ 42-47 through 42-49: Reserved for future codification purposes.

• § 42-50. Deposits from the tenant.
• § 42-51. Permitted uses of the deposit.
• § 42-52. Landlord's obligations.
• § 42-53. Pet deposits.
• § 42-54. Transfer of dwelling units.
• § 42-55. Remedies.
• § 42-56. Application of Article.
• § 42-57. Reserved for future codification purposes.
• § 42-58. Reserved for future codification purposes.

• § 42-59. Definitions.
• § 42-59.1. Statement of Public Policy.
• § 42-60. Nature of actions and jurisdiction.
• § 42-61. Standard of proof.
• § 42-62. Parties.
• § 42-63. Remedies and judicial orders.
• § 42-64. Affirmative defense or exemption to a complete eviction.
• § 42-65. Obstructing the execution or enforcement of a removal or eviction order.
• § 42-66. Motion to enforce eviction and removal orders.
• § 42-67. Impermissible defense.
• § 42-68. Expedited proceedings.
• § 42-69. Relation to criminal proceedings.
• § 42-70. Discovery.
• § 42-71. Protection of threatened witnesses or affiants.
• § 42-72. Availability of law enforcement resources to plaintiffs or potential plaintiffs.
• § 42-73. Collection of rent.
• § 42-74. Preliminary or emergency relief.
• § 42-75. Cumulative remedies.
• § 42-76. Civil immunity.