2022 North Carolina General Statutes

Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure
Chapter 1A - Rules of Civil Procedure
Chapter 1B - Contribution
Chapter 1C - Enforcement of Judgments
Chapter 1D - Punitive Damages
Chapter 1E - Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Chapter 1F - North Carolina Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act
Chapter 1G - North Carolina Choice of Law and Forum in Business Contracts Act
Chapter 2 - Clerk of Superior Court [Repealed and Transferred.]
Chapter 3 - Commissioners of Affidavits and Deeds [Repealed.]
Chapter 4 - Common Law
Chapter 5 - Contempt [Repealed.]
Chapter 5A - Contempt
Chapter 6 - Liability for Court Costs
Chapter 7 - Courts [Repealed and Transferred.]
Chapter 7A - Judicial Department
Chapter 7B - Juvenile Code
Chapter 8 - Evidence
Chapter 8A - Interpreters for Deaf Persons [Recodified.]
Chapter 8B - Interpreters for Deaf Persons
Chapter 8C - Evidence Code
Chapter 9 - Jurors
Chapter 10 - Notaries. [Repealed]
Chapter 10A - Notaries [Repealed.]
Chapter 10B - Notaries
Chapter 11 - Oaths
Chapter 12 - Statutory Construction
Chapter 13 - Citizenship Restored
Chapter 14 - Criminal Law
Chapter 15 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 15A - Criminal Procedure Act
Chapter 15B - Victims Compensation
Chapter 15C - Address Confidentiality Program
Chapter 16 - Gaming Contracts and Futures
Chapter 17 - Habeas Corpus
Chapter 17A - Law-Enforcement Officers [Recodified.]
Chapter 17B - North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training System [Recodified.]
Chapter 17C - North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission
Chapter 17D - North Carolina Justice Academy
Chapter 17E - North Carolina Sheriffs' Education and Training Standards Commission
Chapter 17F - Law Enforcement
Chapter 18 - Regulation of Intoxicating Liquors [Repealed.]
Chapter 18A - Regulation of Intoxicating Liquors [Repealed.]
Chapter 18B - Regulation of Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 18C - North Carolina State Lottery
Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals
Chapter 19A - Protection of Animals
Chapter 20 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 21 - Bills of Lading
Chapter 22 - Contracts Requiring Writing
Chapter 22A - Signatures
Chapter 22B - Contracts Against Public Policy
Chapter 22C - Payments to Subcontractors
Chapter 23 - Debtor and Creditor
Chapter 24 - Interest
Chapter 25 - Uniform Commercial Code
Chapter 25A - Retail Installment Sales Act
Chapter 25B - Credit
Chapter 25C - Sales of Artwork
Chapter 26 - Suretyship
Chapter 27 - Warehouse Receipts
Chapter 28 - Administration [Repealed.]
Chapter 28A - Administration of Decedents' Estates
Chapter 28B - Estates of Absentees in Military Service
Chapter 28C - Estates of Missing Persons
Chapter 29 - Intestate Succession
Chapter 30 - Surviving Spouses
Chapter 31 - Wills
Chapter 31A - Acts Barring Property Rights
Chapter 31B - Renunciation of Property and Renunciation of Fiduciary Powers Act
Chapter 31C - Uniform Disposition of Community Property Rights at Death Act
Chapter 31D - North Carolina Uniform Powers of Appointment Act
Chapter 32 - Fiduciaries
Chapter 32A - Powers of Attorney
Chapter 32C - North Carolina Uniform Power of Attorney Act
Chapter 33 - Guardian and Ward [Repealed and Recodified.]
Chapter 33A - North Carolina Uniform Transfers to Minors Act
Chapter 33B - North Carolina Uniform Custodial Trust Act
Chapter 34 - Veterans' Guardianship Act
Chapter 35 - Sterilization Procedures
Chapter 35A - Incompetency and Guardianship
Chapter 35B - Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act
Chapter 36 - Trusts and Trustees [Repealed.]
Chapter 36A - Trusts and Trustees
Chapter 36B - Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act
Chapter 36C - North Carolina Uniform Trust Code
Chapter 36D - North Carolina Community Third Party Trusts, Pooled Trusts
Chapter 36E - Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act
Chapter 36F - Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act
Chapter 37 - Allocation of Principal and Income
Chapter 37A - Uniform Principal and Income Act
Chapter 38 - Boundaries
Chapter 38A - Landowner Liability
Chapter 38B - Trespasser Responsibility
Chapter 39 - Conveyances
Chapter 39A - Transfer Fee Covenants Prohibited
Chapter 40 - Eminent Domain
Chapter 40A - Eminent Domain
Chapter 41 - Estates
Chapter 41A - State Fair Housing Act
Chapter 42 - Landlord and Tenant
Chapter 42A - Vacation Rental Act
Chapter 43 - Land Registration
Chapter 44 - Liens
Chapter 44A - Statutory Liens and Charges
Chapter 45 - Mortgages and Deeds of Trust
Chapter 45A - Good Funds Settlement Act
Chapter 46 - Partition
Chapter 46A - Partition
Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration
Chapter 47A - Unit Ownership
Chapter 47B - Real Property Marketable Title Act
Chapter 47C - North Carolina Condominium Act
Chapter 47D - Notice of Settlement Act [Expired.]
Chapter 47E - Residential Property Disclosure Act
Chapter 47F - North Carolina Planned Community Act
Chapter 47G - Option to Purchase Contracts Executed With Lease Agreements
Chapter 47H - Contracts for Deed
Chapter 48 - Adoptions
Chapter 48A - Minors
Chapter 49 - Children Born Out of Wedlock
Chapter 49A - Rights of Children
Chapter 50 - Divorce and Alimony
Chapter 50A - Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act and Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act
Chapter 50B - Domestic Violence
Chapter 50C - Civil No-Contact Orders
Chapter 50D - Permanent Civil No-Contact Order Against Sex Offender on Behalf of Crime Victim
Chapter 51 - Marriage
Chapter 52 - Powers and Liabilities of Married Persons
Chapter 52A - Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act [Repealed.]
Chapter 52B - Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
Chapter 52C - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
Chapter 53 - Regulation of Financial Services
Chapter 53A - Business Development Corporations and North Carolina Capital Resource Corporations
Chapter 53B - Financial Privacy Act
Chapter 53C - Regulation of Banks
Chapter 54 - Cooperative Organizations
Chapter 54A - Capital Stock Savings and Loan Associations [Repealed.]
Chapter 54B - Savings and Loan Associations
Chapter 54C - Savings Banks
Chapter 55 - North Carolina Business Corporation Act
Chapter 55A - North Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act
Chapter 55B - Professional Corporation Act
Chapter 55C - Foreign Trade Zones
Chapter 55D - Filings, Names, and Registered Agents for Corporations, Nonprofit Corporations, and Partnerships
Chapter 56 - Electric, Telegraph and Power Companies [Repealed.]
Chapter 57 - Hospital, Medical and Dental Service Corporations [Recodified.]
Chapter 57A - Health Maintenance Organization Act [Recodified.]
Chapter 57B - Health Maintenance Organization Act [Recodified.]
Chapter 57C - North Carolina Limited Liability Company Act
Chapter 57D - North Carolina Limited Liability Company Act
Chapter 58 - Insurance
Chapter 58A - North Carolina Health Insurance Trust Commission [Recodified.]
Chapter 59 - Partnership
Chapter 59B - Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act
Chapter 60 - Railroads and Other Carriers [Repealed and Transferred.]
Chapter 61 - Religious Societies
Chapter 62 - Public Utilities
Chapter 62A - Public Safety Telephone Service and Wireless Telephone Service
Chapter 63 - Aeronautics
Chapter 63A - North Carolina Global TransPark Authority
Chapter 64 - Aliens
Chapter 65 - Cemeteries
Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business
Chapter 67 - Dogs
Chapter 68 - Fences and Stock Law
Chapter 69 - Fire Protection
Chapter 70 - Indian Antiquities, Archaeological Resources and Unmarked Human Skeletal Remains Protection
Chapter 71 - Indians [Repealed.]
Chapter 71A - Indians
Chapter 72 - Inns, Hotels and Restaurants
Chapter 73 - Mills
Chapter 74 - Mines and Quarries
Chapter 74A - Company Police [Repealed.]
Chapter 74B - Private Protective Services Act [Repealed.]
Chapter 74C - Private Protective Services
Chapter 74D - Alarm Systems
Chapter 74E - Company Police Act
Chapter 74F - Locksmith Licensing Act
Chapter 74G - Campus Police Act
Chapter 75 - Monopolies, Trusts and Consumer Protection
Chapter 75A - Boating and Water Safety
Chapter 75B - Discrimination in Business
Chapter 75C - Motion Picture Fair Competition Act
Chapter 75D - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
Chapter 75E - Unlawful Activities in Connection With Certain Corporate Transactions
Chapter 76 - Navigation
Chapter 76A - Navigation and Pilotage Commissions
Chapter 77 - Rivers, Creeks, and Coastal Waters
Chapter 78 - Securities Law [Repealed.]
Chapter 78A - North Carolina Securities Act
Chapter 78B - Tender Offer Disclosure Act
Chapter 78C - Investment Advisers
Chapter 78D - Commodities Act
Chapter 79 - Strays [Repealed.]
Chapter 80 - Trademarks, Brands, etc
Chapter 81 - Weights and Measures [Recodified.]
Chapter 81A - Weights and Measures Act of 1975
Chapter 82 - Wrecks [Repealed.]
Chapter 83 - Architects [Recodified.]
Chapter 83A - Architects and Registered Interior Designers
Chapter 84 - Attorneys-at-Law
Chapter 84A - Foreign Legal Consultants
Chapter 85 - Auctions and Auctioneers [Repealed.]
Chapter 85A - Bail Bondsmen and Runners [Recodified.]
Chapter 85B - Auctions and Auctioneers
Chapter 85C - Bail Bondsmen and Runners [Recodified.]
Chapter 86 - Barbers [Recodified.]
Chapter 86A - Barbers
Chapter 86B - Barber and Electrolysis Practice Act
Chapter 87 - Contractors
Chapter 88 - Cosmetic Art [Repealed.]
Chapter 88A - Electrolysis Practice Act
Chapter 88B - Cosmetic Art
Chapter 89 - Engineering and Land Surveying [Recodified.]
Chapter 89A - Landscape Architects
Chapter 89B - Foresters
Chapter 89C - Engineering and Land Surveying
Chapter 89D - Landscape Contractors
Chapter 89E - Geologists Licensing Act
Chapter 89F - North Carolina Soil Scientist Licensing Act
Chapter 89G - Irrigation Contractors
Chapter 90 - Medicine and Allied Occupations
Chapter 90A - Sanitarians and Water and Wastewater Treatment Facility Operators
Chapter 90B - Social Worker Certification and Licensure Act
Chapter 90C - North Carolina Recreational Therapy Licensure Act
Chapter 90D - Interpreters and Transliterators
Chapter 91 - Pawnbrokers [Repealed.]
Chapter 91A - Pawnbrokers and Cash Converters Modernization Act
Chapter 92 - Photographers
Chapter 93 - Certified Public Accountants
Chapter 93A - Real Estate License Law
Chapter 93B - Occupational Licensing Boards
Chapter 93C - Watchmakers [Repealed.]
Chapter 93D - North Carolina State Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters Board
Chapter 93E - North Carolina Appraisers Act
Chapter 94 - Apprenticeship
Chapter 95 - Department of Labor and Labor Regulations
Chapter 96 - Employment Security
Chapter 97 - Workers' Compensation Act
Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records
Chapter 99 - Libel and Slander
Chapter 99A - Civil Remedies for Interference With Property
Chapter 99B - Products Liability
Chapter 99C - Actions Relating to Winter Sports Safety and Accidents
Chapter 99D - Civil Rights
Chapter 99E - Special Liability Provisions
Chapter 100 - Monuments, Memorials and Parks
Chapter 101 - Names of Persons
Chapter 102 - Official Survey Base
Chapter 103 - Sundays, Holidays and Special Days
Chapter 104 - United States Lands
Chapter 104A - Degrees of Kinship
Chapter 104B - Hurricanes or Other Acts of Nature
Chapter 104C - Atomic Energy, Radioactivity and Ionizing Radiation [Repealed and Recodified.]
Chapter 104D - Southern States Energy Compact
Chapter 104E - North Carolina Radiation Protection Act
Chapter 104F - Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact [Repealed]
Chapter 104G - North Carolina Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Authority Act of 1987 [Repealed]
Chapter 105 - Taxation
Chapter 105A - Setoff Debt Collection Act
Chapter 105B - Defaulted Student Loan Recovery Act
Chapter 106 - Agriculture
Chapter 107 - Agricultural Development Districts [Repealed.]
Chapter 108 - Social Services [Repealed and Recodified.]
Chapter 108A - Social Services
Chapter 108B - Community Action Programs
Chapter 108C - Medicaid Provider Requirements
Chapter 108D - Medicaid and NC Health Choice Managed Care Programs
Chapter 109 - Bonds [Recodified.]
Chapter 110 - Child Welfare
Chapter 111 - Aid to the Blind
Chapter 112 - Confederate Homes and Pensions [Repealed.]
Chapter 113 - Conservation and Development
Chapter 113A - Pollution Control and Environment
Chapter 113B - North Carolina Energy Policy Act of 1975
Chapter 114 - Department of Justice
Chapter 115 - Elementary and Secondary Education
Chapter 115A - Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, and Industrial Education Centers [Repealed.]
Chapter 115B - Tuition and Fee Waivers
Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education
Chapter 115D - Community Colleges
Chapter 115E - Private Educational Facilities Finance Act
Chapter 116 - Higher Education
Chapter 116A - Escheats and Abandoned Property
Chapter 116B - Escheats and Abandoned Property
Chapter 116C - Continuum of Education Programs
Chapter 116D - Higher Education Bonds
Chapter 116E - Education Longitudinal Data System
Chapter 117 - Electrification
Chapter 118 - Firemen's and Rescue Squad Workers' Relief and Pension Funds [Recodified.]
Chapter 118A - Firemen's Death Benefit Act [Repealed.]
Chapter 118B - Members of a Rescue Squad Death Benefit Act [Repealed.]
Chapter 119 - Gasoline and Oil Inspection and Regulation
Chapter 120 - General Assembly
Chapter 120C - Lobbying
Chapter 121 - Archives and History
Chapter 122 - Hospitals for the Mentally Disordered [Repealed.]
Chapter 122A - North Carolina Housing Finance Agency
Chapter 122B - North Carolina Agricultural Facilities Finance Act [Repealed.]
Chapter 122C - Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Act of 1985
Chapter 122D - North Carolina Agricultural Finance Act
Chapter 122E - North Carolina Housing Trust and Oil Overcharge Act
Chapter 123 - Impeachment
Chapter 123A - Industrial Development [Repealed.]
Chapter 124 - Internal Improvements
Chapter 125 - Libraries
Chapter 126 - North Carolina Human Resources Act
Chapter 127 - Militia [Repealed.]
Chapter 127A - Militia
Chapter 127B - Military Affairs
Chapter 127C - North Carolina Military Affairs Commission
Chapter 128 - Offices and Public Officers
Chapter 129 - Public Buildings and Grounds
Chapter 130 - Public Health [Repealed.]
Chapter 130A - Public Health
Chapter 130B - Hazardous Waste Management Commission
Chapter 131 - Public Hospitals
Chapter 131A - Health Care Facilities Finance Act
Chapter 131B - Licensing of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities
Chapter 131C - Charitable Solicitation Licensure Act [Repealed.]
Chapter 131D - Inspection and Licensing of Facilities
Chapter 131E - Health Care Facilities and Services
Chapter 131F - Solicitation of Contributions
Chapter 132 - Public Records
Chapter 133 - Public Works
Chapter 134 - Youth Development [Recodified.]
Chapter 134A - Youth Services [Repealed.]
Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees
Chapter 136 - Transportation
Chapter 137 - Rural Rehabilitation
Chapter 138 - Salaries, Fees and Allowances
Chapter 138A - State Government Ethics Act
Chapter 139 - Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Chapter 140 - State Art Museum; Symphony and Art Societies
Chapter 140A - State Awards System
Chapter 141 - State Boundaries
Chapter 142 - State Debt
Chapter 143 - State Departments, Institutions, and Commissions
Chapter 143A - State Government Reorganization
Chapter 143B - Executive Organization Act of 1973
Chapter 143C - State Budget Act
Chapter 143D - The State Governmental Accountability and Internal Control Act
Chapter 143E - The North Carolina Measurability Assessment Act of 2016. [Repealed]
Chapter 144 - State Flag, Official Governmental Flags, Motto, and Colors
Chapter 145 - State Symbols and Other Official Adoptions
Chapter 146 - State Lands
Chapter 147 - State Officers
Chapter 148 - State Prison System
Chapter 149 - State Song and Toast
Chapter 150 - Uniform Revocation of Licenses [Repealed.]
Chapter 150A - Administrative Procedure Act [Recodified.]
Chapter 150B - Administrative Procedure Act
Chapter 151 - Constables [Repealed.]
Chapter 152 - Coroners
Chapter 152A - County Medical Examiner [Repealed.]
Chapter 153 - Counties and County Commissioners [Repealed.]
Chapter 153A - Counties
Chapter 153B - Mountain Resources Planning Act
Chapter 153C - Uwharrie Regional Resources Act
Chapter 154 - County Surveyor [Repealed.]
Chapter 155 - County Treasurer [Repealed.]
Chapter 156 - Drainage
Chapter 157 - Housing Authorities and Projects
Chapter 157A - Historic Properties Commissions [Transferred.]
Chapter 158 - Local Development
Chapter 159 - Local Government Finance
Chapter 159A - Pollution Abatement and Industrial Facilities Financing Act [Unconstitutional.]
Chapter 159B - Joint Municipal Electric Power and Energy Act
Chapter 159C - Industrial and Pollution Control Facilities Financing Act
Chapter 159D - The North Carolina Capital Facilities Financing Act
Chapter 159E - Registered Public Obligations Act
Chapter 159F - North Carolina Energy Development Authority [Repealed.]
Chapter 159G - Water Infrastructure
Chapter 159I - Solid Waste Management Loan Program and Local Government Special Obligation Bonds
Chapter 160 - Municipal Corporations [Repealed and Transferred.]
Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns
Chapter 160B - Consolidated City-County Act
Chapter 160C - Baseball Park Districts [Repealed.]
Chapter 160D - Local Planning and Development Regulation
Chapter 161 - Register of Deeds
Chapter 162 - Sheriff
Chapter 162A - Water and Sewer Systems
Chapter 162B - Continuity of Local Government in Emergency
Chapter 163 - Elections and Election Laws
Chapter 163A - Elections and Ethics Enforcement Act
Chapter 164 - Concerning the General Statutes of North Carolina
Chapter 165 - Veterans
Chapter 166 - Civil Preparedness Agencies [Repealed.]
Chapter 166A - North Carolina Emergency Management Act
Chapter 167 - State Civil Air Patrol [Repealed.]
Chapter 168 - Persons with Disabilities
Chapter 168A - Persons with Disabilities Protection Act
Chapter 169 - North Carolina Regulatory Sandbox

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