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Article 1 - Felonies and Misdemeanors.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-1.   Felonies and misdemeanors defined
  A felony is a crime which: (1) Was a felony at common law; (2) Is or may be punishable by death; (3) Is or may...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-1.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 538, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-2.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 538, s. 2.1
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-2.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 538, s. 3
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-2.2.   Repealed by Session Laws 2003-0378, s. 1, effective August 1, 2003
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-2.3.   Forfeiture of gain acquired through felonies
  (a) Except as is otherwise provided in Article 3 of Chapter 31A, in the case of any violation of a general statute constituting a felony...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-2.4.   Punishment for conspiracy to commit a felony
  (a) Unless a different classification is expressly stated, a person who is convicted of a conspiracy to commit a felony is guilty of a felony...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-2.5.   Punishment for attempt to commit a felony or misdemeanor
  Unless a different classification is expressly stated, an attempt to commit a misdemeanor or a felony is punishable under the next lower classification as the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-2.6.   Punishment for solicitation to commit a felony or misdemeanor
  (a) Unless a different classification is expressly stated, a person who solicits another person to commit a felony is guilty of a felony that is...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-3.   Punishment of misdemeanors, infamous offenses, offenses committed in secrecy and malice, or with deceit and intent to defraud, or with ethnic animosity
  (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), every person who shall be convicted of any misdemeanor for which no specific classification and no...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-3.1.   Infraction defined; sanctions
  (a) An infraction is a noncriminal violation of law not punishable by imprisonment. Unless otherwise provided by law, the sanction for a person found responsible...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-4.   Violation of local ordinances misdemeanor
  (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), if any person shall violate an ordinance of a county, city, town, or metropolitan sewerage district created under...

Article 2 - Principals and Accessories.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-5 through 14-5.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 686, s. 2, effective July 1, 1981
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-5.2.   Accessory before fact punishable as principal felon
  All distinctions between accessories before the fact and principals to the commission of a felony are abolished. Every person who heretofore would have been guilty...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-6.   Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 686, s. 2, effective July 1, 1981
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.   Accessories after the fact; trial and punishment
  If any person shall become an accessory after the fact to any felony, whether the same be a felony at common law or by virtue...

Article 2A - Habitual Felons.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.1.   Persons defined as habitual felons
  Any person who has been convicted of or pled guilty to three felony offenses in any federal court or state court in the United States...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.2.   Punishment
  When any person is charged by indictment with the commission of a felony under the laws of the State of North Carolina and is also...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.3.   Charge of habitual felon
  An indictment which charges a person who is an habitual felon within the meaning of G.S. 14‑7.1 with the commission of any felony under the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.4.   Evidence of prior convictions of felony offenses
  In all cases where a person is charged under the provisions of this Article with being an habitual felon, the record or records of prior...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.5.   Verdict and judgment
  When an indictment charges an habitual felon with a felony as above provided and an indictment also charges that said person is an habitual felon...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.6.   Sentencing of habitual felons
  When an habitual felon as defined in this Article commits any felony under the laws of the State of North Carolina, the felon must, upon...

Article 2B - Violent Habitual Felons.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.7.   Persons defined as violent habitual felons
  (a) Any person who has been convicted of two violent felonies in any federal court, in a court of this or any other state of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.8.   Punishment
  When a person is charged by indictment with the commission of a violent felony and is also charged with being a violent habitual felon as...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.9.   Charge of violent habitual felon
  An indictment that charges a person who is a violent habitual felon within the meaning of G.S. 14‑7.7 with the commission of any violent felony...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.10.   Evidence of prior convictions of violent felonies
  In all cases where a person is charged under this Article with being a violent habitual felon, the records of prior convictions of violent felonies...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.11.   Verdict and judgment
  When an indictment charges a violent habitual felon with a violent felony as provided in this Article and an indictment also charges that the person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.12.   Sentencing of violent habitual felons
  A person who is convicted of a violent felony and of being a violent habitual felon must, upon conviction (except where the death penalty is...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.13 through 14-7.19.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 2C - Continuing Criminal Enterprise.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-7.20.   Continuing criminal enterprise
  (a) Any person who engages in a continuing criminal enterprise shall be punished as a Class H felon and in addition shall be subject to...

Article 3 - Rebellion.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-8.   Rebellion against the State
  If any person shall incite, set on foot, assist or engage in a rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the State of North Carolina...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-9.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 71(1)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-10.   Secret political and military organizations forbidden
  If any person, for the purpose of compassing or furthering any political object, or aiding the success of any political party or organization, or resisting...

Article 4 - Subversive Activities.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-11.   Activities aimed at overthrow of government; use of public buildings
  It shall be unlawful for any person, by word of mouth or writing, willfully and deliberately to advocate, advise or teach a doctrine that the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.   Punishment for violations
  Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this Article shall, for the first offense, be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.1.   Certain subversive activities made unlawful
  It shall be unlawful for any person to: (1) By word of mouth or writing advocate, advise or teach the duty, necessity or propriety of...

Article 4A - Prohibited Secret Societies and Activities.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.2.   Definitions
  The terms used in this Article are defined as follows: (1) The term "secret society" shall mean any two or more persons organized, associated together,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.3.   Certain secret societies prohibited
  It shall be unlawful for any person to join, unite himself with, become a member of, apply for membership in, form, organize, solicit members for,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.4.   Use of signs, grips, passwords or disguises or taking or administering oath for illegal purposes
  It shall be unlawful for any person to use, agree to use, or to encourage, aid or assist in the using of any signs, grips,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.5.   Permitting, etc., meetings or demonstrations of prohibited secret societies
  It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or agree to permit any members of a secret political society or a secret military society...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.6.   Meeting places and meetings of secret societies regulated
  Every secret society which has been or is now being formed and organized within the State, and which has members within the State shall forthwith...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.7.   Wearing of masks, hoods, etc., on public ways
  No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.8.   Wearing of masks, hoods, etc., on public property
  No person or persons shall in this State, while wearing any mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so as...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.9.   Entry, etc., upon premises of another while wearing mask, hood or other disguise
  No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall, while wearing a mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.10.   Holding meetings or demonstrations while wearing masks, hoods, etc
  No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall while wearing a mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.11.   Exemptions from provisions of Article
  The following are exempted from the provisions of G.S. 14‑ 12.7, 14‑12.8, 14‑12.9, 14‑12.10 and 14‑12.14: (1) Any person or persons wearing traditional holiday costumes...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.12.   Placing burning or flaming cross on property of another or on public street or highway
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place or cause to be placed on the property of another in this State...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.13.   Placing exhibit with intention of intimidating, etc., another
  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place or cause to be placed anywhere in this State any exhibit of any kind...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.14.   Placing exhibit while wearing mask, hood, or other disguise
  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, while wearing a mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-12.15.   Punishment for violation of Article
  All persons violating any of the provisions of this Article, except for G.S. 14‑12.12(b), 14‑12.13, and 14‑12.14, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor....

Article 5 - Counterferfeiting and Issuing Monetary Substitutes.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-13.   Counterfeiting coin and uttering coin that is counterfeit
  If any person shall falsely make, forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-14.   Possessing tools for counterfeiting
  If any person shall have in his possession any instrument for the purpose of making any counterfeit similitude or likeness of any coin made of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-15.   Issuing substitutes for money without authority
  If any person or corporation, unless the same be expressly allowed by law, shall issue any bill, due bill, order, ticket, certificate of deposit, promissory...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-16.   Receiving or passing unauthorized substitutes for money
  If any person or corporation shall pass or receive, as the representative of, or as the substitute for, money, any bill, check, certificate, promissory note,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-16.1 through 14-16.5.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 5A - Endangering Executive and Legislative, and Court Officers.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-16.6.   Assault on executive, legislative, or court officer
  (a) Any person who assaults any legislative officer, executive officer, or court officer, or any person who makes a violent attack upon the residence, office,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-16.7.   Threats against executive, legislative, or court officers
  (a) Any person who knowingly and willfully makes any threat to inflict serious bodily injury upon or to kill any legislative officer, executive officer, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-16.8.   No requirement of receipt of the threat
  In prosecutions under G.S. 14‑16.7 of this Article it shall not be necessary to prove that any legislative officer, executive officer, or court officer actually...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-16.9.   Officers-elect to be covered
  Any person who has been elected to any office covered by this Article but has not yet taken the oath of office shall be considered...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-16.10.   Definitions
  The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Court officer. Magistrate, clerk of superior court, acting clerk, assistant or deputy clerk, judge, or justice of...

Article 6 - Homicide.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-17.   Murder in the first and second degree defined; punishment
  A murder which shall be perpetrated by means of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction as defined in G.S. 14‑288.21, poison, lying...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-17.1.   Crime of suicide abolished
  The common‑law crime of suicide is hereby abolished as an offense. (1973, c. 1205.)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-18.   Punishment for manslaughter
  Voluntary manslaughter shall be punishable as a Class D felony, and involuntary manslaughter shall be punishable as a Class F felony. (4 Hen. VII, s....
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-18.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Extra Session, c. 14, s. 73
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-18.2.   Injury to pregnant woman
  (a) Definitions. The following definitions shall apply in this section: (1) Miscarriage. The interruption of the normal development of the fetus, other than by a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-19.   Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 760, s. 5, effective July 1, 1981
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-20.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 29(1)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-21 through 14-23.   Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 682, s. 7, effective January 1, 1980

Article 7 - Rape and Kindred Offenses.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-24 through 14-25.   Repealed by Session Laws, 1975, c. 402
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-26 through 14-27.   Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 682, s. 7, effective January 1, 1980

Article 7A - Rape and Other Sex Offenses.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.1.   Definitions
  As used in this Article, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Mentally disabled" means (i) a victim who suffers from mental retardation, or (ii) a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.2.   First-degree rape
  (a) A person is guilty of rape in the first degree if the person engages in vaginal intercourse: (1) With a victim who is a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.3.   Second-degree rape
  (a) A person is guilty of rape in the second degree if the person engages in vaginal intercourse with another person: (1) By force and...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.4.   First-degree sexual offense
  (a) A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the first degree if the person engages in a sexual act: (1) With a victim...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.5.   Second-degree sexual offense
  (a) A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the second degree if the person engages in a sexual act with another person: (1)...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.5A.   Sexual battery
  (a) A person is guilty of sexual battery if the person, for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, engages in sexual...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.6.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 71(3)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.7.   Intercourse and sexual offenses with certain victims; consent no defense
  (a) If a defendant who has assumed the position of a parent in the home of a minor victim engages in vaginal intercourse or a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.7A.   Statutory rape or sexual offense of person who is 13, 14, or 15 years old
  (a) A defendant is guilty of a Class B1 felony if the defendant engages in vaginal intercourse or a sexual act with another person who...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.8.   No defense that victim is spouse of person committing act
  A person may be prosecuted under this Article whether or not the victim is the person's legal spouse at the time of the commission of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.9.   No presumption as to incapacity
  In prosecutions under this Article, there shall be no presumption that any person under the age of 14 years is physically incapable of committing a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27.10.   Evidence required in prosecutions under this Article
  It shall not be necessary upon the trial of any indictment for an offense under this Article where the sex act alleged is vaginal intercourse...

Article 8 - Assaults.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-28.   Malicious castration
  If any person, of malice aforethought, shall unlawfully castrate any other person, or cut off, maim or disfigure any of the privy members of any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-29.   Castration or other maiming without malice aforethought
  If any person shall, on purpose and unlawfully, but without malice aforethought, cut, or slit the nose, bite or cut off the nose, or a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-30.   Malicious maiming
  If any person shall, of malice aforethought, unlawfully cut out or disable the tongue or put out an eye of any other person, with intent...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-30.1.   Malicious throwing of corrosive acid or alkali
  If any person shall, of malice aforethought, knowingly and willfully throw or cause to be thrown upon another person any corrosive acid or alkali with...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-31.   Maliciously assaulting in a secret manner
  If any person shall in a secret manner maliciously commit an assault and battery with any deadly weapon upon another by waylaying or otherwise, with...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-32.   Felonious assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflicting serious injury; punishments
  (a) Any person who assaults another person with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicts serious injury shall be punished as a Class...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-32.1.   Assaults on handicapped persons; punishments
  (a) For purposes of this section, a "handicapped person" is a person who has: (1) A physical or mental disability, such as decreased use of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-32.2.   Patient abuse and neglect; punishments
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to physically abuse a patient of a health care facility or a resident of a residential care...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-32.3.   Domestic abuse, neglect, and exploitation of disabled or elder adults
  (a) Abuse. A person is guilty of abuse if that person is a caretaker of a disabled or elder adult who is residing in a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-32.4.   Assault inflicting serious bodily injury; strangulation; penalties
  (a) Unless the conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any person who assaults another person and inflicts serious bodily...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-33.   Misdemeanor assaults, batteries, and affrays, simple and aggravated; punishments
  (a) Any person who commits a simple assault or a simple assault and battery or participates in a simple affray is guilty of a Class...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-33.1.   Evidence of former threats upon plea of self-defense
  In any case of assault, assault and battery, or affray in which the plea of the defendant is self‑defense, evidence of former threats against the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-33.2.   Habitual misdemeanor assault
  A person commits the offense of habitual misdemeanor assault if that person violates any of the provisions of G.S. 14‑33 and causes physical injury, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-34.   Assaulting by pointing gun
  If any person shall point any gun or pistol at any person, either in fun or otherwise, whether such gun or pistol be loaded or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-34.1.   Discharging certain barreled weapons or a firearm into occupied property
  (a) Any person who willfully or wantonly discharges or attempts to discharge any firearm or barreled weapon capable of discharging shot, bullets, pellets, or other...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-34.2.   Assault with a firearm or other deadly weapon upon governmental officers or employees, company police officers, or campus police officers
  Unless a person's conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any person who commits an assault with a firearm or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-34.3.   Manufacture, sale, purchase, or possession of teflon-coated types of bullets prohibited
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to import, manufacture, possess, store, transport, sell, offer to sell, purchase, offer to purchase, deliver or give to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-34.4.   Adulterated or misbranded food, drugs, or cosmetics; intent to cause serious injury or death; intent to extort
  (a) Any person who with the intent to cause serious injury or death manufactures, sells, delivers, offers, or holds for sale, any food, drug, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-34.5.   Assault with a firearm on a law enforcement, probation, or parole officer or on a person employed at a State or local detention facility
  (a) Any person who commits an assault with a firearm upon a law enforcement officer, probation officer, or parole officer while the officer is in...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-34.6.   (See editor's note) Assault or affray on a firefighter, an emergency medical technician, medical responder, emergency department nurse, or emergency department physician
  (a) A person is guilty of a Class A1 misdemeanor if the person commits an assault or an affray on any of the following persons...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-34.7.   Assault inflicting serious injury on a law enforcement, probation, or parole officer or on a person employed at a State or local detention facility
  (a) Unless covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, a person is guilty of a Class F felony if the person assaults...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-34.8.   Criminal use of laser device
  (a) For purposes of this section, the term "laser" means light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. (b) It is unlawful intentionally to point a...

Article 9 - Hazing.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-35.   Hazing; definition and punishment
  It is unlawful for any student in attendance at any university, college, or school in this State to engage in hazing, or to aid or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-36.   Repealed by Session Laws 2003-299, § 2, effective December 1, 2003, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-37.   Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 7, s. 1
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-38.   Witnesses in hazing trials; no indictment to be founded on self-criminating testimony
  In all trials for the offense of hazing any student or other person subpoenaed as a witness in behalf of the State shall be required...

Article 10 - Kidnapping and Abduction.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-39.   Kidnapping
  (a) Any person who shall unlawfully confine, restrain, or remove from one place to another, any other person 16 years of age or over without...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-40.   Enticing minors out of the State for the purpose of employment
  If any person shall employ and carry beyond the limits of this State any minor, or shall induce any minor to go beyond the limits...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-41.   Abduction of children
  (a) Any person who, without legal justification or defense, abducts or induces any minor child who is at least four years younger than the person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-42.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 539, s. 1358.2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-43.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 29(2)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-43.1.   Unlawful arrest by officers from other states
  A law‑enforcement officer of a state other than North Carolina who, knowing that he is in the State of North Carolina and purporting to act...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-43.2.   Repealed by Session Laws 2006-247, s. 20(a), effective December 1, 2006, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-43.3.   Felonious restraint
  A person commits the offense of felonious restraint if he unlawfully restrains another person without that person's consent, or the consent of the person's parent...

Article 10A - Human Trafficking.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-43.10.   Definitions
  (a) Definitions. The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Coercion. The term includes all of the following: a. Causing or threatening to cause bodily...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-43.11.   Human trafficking
  (a) A person commits the offense of human trafficking when that person knowingly recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means another person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-43.12.   Involuntary servitude
  (a) A person commits the offense of involuntary servitude when that person knowingly and willfully holds another in involuntary servitude. (b) A person who violates...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-43.13.   Sexual servitude
  (a) A person commits the offense of sexual servitude when that person knowingly subjects or maintains another in sexual servitude. (b) A person who violates...

Article 11 - Abortion and Kindred Offenses.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-44.   Using drugs or instruments to destroy unborn child
  If any person shall willfully administer to any woman, either pregnant or quick with child, or prescribe for any such woman, or advise or procure...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-45.   Using drugs or instruments to produce miscarriage or injure pregnant woman
  If any person shall administer to any pregnant woman, or prescribe for any such woman, or advise and procure such woman to take any medicine,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-45.1.   When abortion not unlawful
  (a) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of G.S. 14‑44 and 14‑45, it shall not be unlawful, during the first 20 weeks of a woman's pregnancy,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-46.   Concealing birth of child
  If any person shall, by secretly burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of a newborn child, endeavor to conceal the birth of such...

Article 12 - Libel and Slander.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-47.   Communicating libelous matter to newspapers
  If any person shall state, deliver or transmit by any means whatever, to the manager, editor, publisher or reporter of any newspaper or periodical for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-48.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402

Article 13 - Malicious Injury or Damage by Use of Explosive or Incendiary Device or Material.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-49.   Malicious use of explosive or incendiary; punishment
  (a) Any person who willfully and maliciously injures another by the use of any explosive or incendiary device or material is guilty of a Class...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-49.1.   Malicious damage of occupied property by use of explosive or incendiary; punishment
  Any person who willfully and maliciously damages any real or personal property of any kind or nature, being at the time occupied by another, by...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-50.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 71(4)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-50.1.   Explosive or incendiary device or material defined
  As used in this Article, "explosive or incendiary device or material" means nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, other high explosive, incendiary bomb or grenade, other destructive incendiary...

Article 14 - Burglary and Other Housebreakings.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-51.   First and second degree burglary
  There shall be two degrees in the crime of burglary as defined at the common law. If the crime be committed in a dwelling house,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-51.1.   Use of deadly physical force against an intruder
  (a) A lawful occupant within a home or other place of residence is justified in using any degree of force that the occupant reasonably believes...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-52.   Punishment for burglary
  Burglary in the first degree shall be punishable as a Class D felony, and burglary in the second degree shall be punishable as a Class...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-53.   Breaking out of dwelling house burglary
  If any person shall enter the dwelling house of another with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein, or being in such dwelling house,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-54.   Breaking or entering buildings generally
  (a) Any person who breaks or enters any building with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein shall be punished as a Class H...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-54.1.   Breaking or entering a building that is a place of religious worship
  (a) Any person who wrongfully breaks or enters any building that is a place of religious worship with intent to commit any felony or larceny...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-55.   Preparation to commit burglary or other housebreakings
  If any person shall be found armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon, with the intent to break or enter a dwelling, or other building...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-56.   Breaking or entering into or breaking out of railroad cars, motor vehicles, trailers, aircraft, boats, or other watercraft
  If any person, with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein, breaks or enters any railroad car, motor vehicle, trailer, aircraft, boat, or other...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-56.1.   Breaking into or forcibly opening coin- or currency-operated machines
  Any person who forcibly breaks into, or by the unauthorized use of a key or other instrument opens, any coin‑ or currency‑operated machine with intent...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-56.2.   Damaging or destroying coin- or currency-operated machines
  Any person who shall willfully and maliciously damage or destroy any coin‑ or currency‑operated machine shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The term...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-56.3.   Breaking into paper currency machines
  Any person, who with intent to steal any moneys therein forcibly breaks into any vending or dispensing machine or device which is operated or activated...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-56.4.   Preparation to commit breaking or entering into motor vehicles
  (a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Manipulative key" means a key, device or instrument, other than a key that is designed to operate a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-57.   Burglary with explosives
  Any person who, with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein, breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited...

Article 15 - Arson and Other Burnings.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-58.   Punishment for arson
  There shall be two degrees of arson as defined at the common law. If the dwelling burned was occupied at the time of the burning,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-58.2.   Burning of mobile home, manufactured-type house or recreational trailer home
  If any person shall willfully and maliciously burn any mobile home or manufactured‑type house or recreational trailer home which is the dwelling house of another...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-59.   Burning of certain public buildings
  If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-60.   Burning of schoolhouses or buildings of educational institutions
  If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-61.   Burning of certain bridges and buildings
  If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-62.   Burning of certain buildings
  If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-62.1.   Burning of building or structure in process of construction
  If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-62.2.   Burning of churches and certain other religious buildings
  If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-63.   Burning of boats and barges
  If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-64.   Burning of ginhouses and tobacco houses
  If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-65.   Fraudulently setting fire to dwelling houses
  If any person, being the occupant of any building used as a dwelling house, whether such person be the owner thereof or not, or, being...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-66.   Burning of personal property
  If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn, or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-67.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 539, s. 1358.2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-67.1.   Burning other buildings
  If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned or aid, counsel or procure the burning of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-68.   Failure of owner of property to comply with orders of public authorities
  If the owner or occupant of any building or premises shall fail to comply with the duly authorized orders of the chief of the fire...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-69.   Failure of officers to investigate incendiary fires
  If any town or city officer shall fail, neglect or refuse to comply with any of the requirements of the law in regard to the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-69.1.   Making a false report concerning destructive device
  (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, any person who, by any means of communication to any person or group of persons,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-69.2.   Perpetrating hoax by use of false bomb or other device
  (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, any person who, with intent to perpetrate a hoax, conceals, places, or displays any device,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-69.3.   Arson or other unlawful burning that results in serious injury to a firefighter or emergency medical technician
  A person is guilty of a Class E felony if the person commits a felony under Article 15 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes...

Article 16 - Larceny.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-70.   Distinctions between grand and petit larceny abolished; punishment; accessories to larceny
  All distinctions between petit and grand larceny are abolished. Unless otherwise provided by statute, larceny is a Class H felony and is subject to the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-71.   Receiving stolen goods; receiving or possessing goods represented as stolen
  (a) If any person shall receive any chattel, property, money, valuable security or other thing whatsoever, the stealing or taking whereof amounts to larceny or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-71.1.   Possessing stolen goods
  If any person shall possess any chattel, property, money, valuable security or other thing whatsoever, the stealing or taking whereof amounts to larceny or a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.   Larceny of property; receiving stolen goods or possessing stolen goods
  (a) Larceny of goods of the value of more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) is a Class H felony. The receiving or possessing of stolen...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.1.   Concealment of merchandise in mercantile establishments
  (a) Whoever, without authority, willfully conceals the goods or merchandise of any store, not theretofore purchased by such person, while still upon the premises of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.2.   Unauthorized use of a motor-propelled conveyance
  (a) A person is guilty of an offense under this section if, without the express or implied consent of the owner or person in lawful...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.3.   Removal of shopping cart from shopping premises
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Shopping cart" means the type of push cart commonly provided by grocery stores, drugstores, and other retail stores...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.4.   Unauthorized taking or sale of labeled dairy milk cases or milk crates bearing the name or label of owner
  (a) A person is guilty of the unauthorized taking or sale of a dairy milk case or milk crate on or after January 1, 1990,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.5.   Larceny of motor fuel
  (a) If any person shall take and carry away motor fuel valued at less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) from an establishment where motor fuel...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.6.   Felonious larceny, possession, or receiving of stolen goods from a permitted construction site
  (a) A person is guilty of a Class I felony if he commits any of the following offenses, where the goods are valued in excess...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.7.   Chop shop activity
  (a) A person is guilty of a Class H felony if that person knowingly engages in any of the following activities, without regard to the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-72.11.   Larceny from a merchant
  A person is guilty of a Class H felony if the person commits larceny against a merchant under any of the following circumstances: (1) If...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-73.   Jurisdiction of the superior courts in cases of larceny and receiving stolen goods
  The superior courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the trial of all cases of the larceny of property, or the receiving of stolen goods knowing...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-73.1.   Petty misdemeanors
  The offenses of larceny and the receiving of stolen goods knowing the same to have been stolen, which are made misdemeanors by Article 16, Subchapter...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-74.   Larceny by servants and other employees
  If any servant or other employee, to whom any money, goods or other chattels, or any of the articles, securities or choses in action mentioned...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-75.   Larceny of chose in action
  If any person shall feloniously steal, take and carry away, or take by robbery, any bank note, check or other order for the payment of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-75.1.   Larceny of secret technical processes
  Any person who steals property consisting of a sample, culture, microorganism, specimen, record, recording, document, drawing, or any other article, material, device, or substance which...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-76.   Larceny, mutilation, or destruction of public records and papers
  If any person shall steal, or for any fraudulent purpose shall take from its place of deposit for the time being, or from any person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-76.1.   Mutilation or defacement of records and papers in the North Carolina State Archives
  If any person shall willfully or maliciously obliterate, injure, deface, or alter any record or paper in the custody of the North Carolina State Archives...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-77.   Larceny, concealment or destruction of wills
  If any person, either during the life of the testator or after his death, shall steal or, for any fraudulent purpose, shall destroy or conceal...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-78.   Larceny of ungathered crops
  If any person shall steal or feloniously take and carry away any maize, corn, wheat, rice or other grain, or any cotton, tobacco, potatoes, peanuts,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-78.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(1)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-79.   Larceny of ginseng
  If any person shall take and carry away, or shall aid in taking or carrying away, any ginseng growing upon the lands of another person,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-79.1.   Larceny of pine needles or pine straw
  If any person shall take and carry away, or shall aid in taking or carrying away, any pine needles or pine straw being produced on...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-80.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(2)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-81.   Larceny of horses, mules, swine, cattle, or dogs
  (a) Larceny of horses, mules, swine, or cattle is a Class H felony. (a1) Larceny of a dog is a Class I felony. (b) In...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-82.   Taking horses, mules, or dogs for temporary purposes
  If any person shall unlawfully take and carry away any horse, gelding, mare, mule, or dog, the property of another person, secretly and against the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-83.   Repealed by Session Laws 1943, c. 543
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-84.   Animals subject to larceny
  All common‑law distinctions among animals with respect to their being subject to larceny are abolished. Any animal that is in a person's possession is the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-85.   Pursuing or injuring livestock with intent to steal
  If any person shall pursue, kill or wound any horse, mule, ass, jennet, cattle, hog, sheep or goat, the property of another, with the intent...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-86.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(3)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-86.1.   Seizure and forfeiture of conveyances used in committing larceny and similar crimes
  (a) All conveyances, including vehicles, watercraft or aircraft, used to unlawfully conceal, convey or transport property in violation of G.S. 14‑71, 14‑71.1, or 20‑106, or...

Article 16A - Organized Retail Theft.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-86.5.   Definitions
  The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) "Retail property." Any new article, product, commodity, item, or component intended to be sold in retail commerce....
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-86.6.   Organized retail theft
  (a) A person is guilty of a Class H felony if the person: (1) Conspires with another person to commit theft of retail property from...

Article 17 - Robbery.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-87.   Robbery with firearms or other dangerous weapons
  (a) Any person or persons who, having in possession or with the use or threatened use of any firearms or other dangerous weapon, implement or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-87.1.   Punishment for common-law robbery
  Robbery as defined at common law, other than robbery with a firearm or other dangerous weapon as defined by G.S. 14‑87, shall be punishable as...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-88.   Train robbery
  If any person shall enter upon any locomotive engine or car on any railroad in this State, and by threats, the exhibition of deadly weapons...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-89.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 71(5)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-89.1.   Safecracking
  (a) A person is guilty of safecracking if he unlawfully opens, enters, or attempts to open or enter a safe or vault : (1) By...

Article 18 - Embezzlement.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-90.   Embezzlement of property received by virtue of office or employment
  If any person exercising a public trust or holding a public office, or any guardian, administrator, executor, trustee, or any receiver, or any other fiduciary,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-91.   Embezzlement of State property by public officers and employees
  If any officer, agent, or employee of the State, or other person having or holding in trust for the same any bonds issued by the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-92.   Embezzlement of funds by public officers and trustees
  If an officer, agent, or employee of an entity listed below, or a person having or holding money or property in trust for one of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-93.   Embezzlement by treasurers of charitable and religious organizations
  If any treasurer or other financial officer of any benevolent or religious institution, society or congregation shall lend any of the moneys coming into his...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-94.   Embezzlement by officers of railroad companies
  If any president, secretary, treasurer, director, engineer, agent or other officer of any railroad company shall embezzle any moneys, bonds or other valuable funds or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-95.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 71(6)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-96 through 14-96.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 1054, s. 6
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-97.   Appropriation of partnership funds by partner to personal use
  Any person engaged in a partnership business in the State of North Carolina who shall, without the knowledge and consent of his copartner or copartners,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-98.   Embezzlement by surviving partner
  If any surviving partner shall willfully and intentionally convert any of the property, money or effects belonging to the partnership to his own use, and...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-99.   Embezzlement of taxes by officers
  If any officer appropriates to his own use the State, county, school, city or town taxes, he shall be guilty of embezzlement, and shall be...

Article 19 - False Pretenses and Cheats.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-100.   Obtaining property by false pretenses
  (a) If any person shall knowingly and designedly by means of any kind of false pretense whatsoever, whether the false pretense is of a past...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-100.1.   Possession or manufacture of certain fraudulent forms of identification
  (a) Except as otherwise made unlawful by G.S. 20‑30, it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly possess or manufacture a false or fraudulent...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-101.   Obtaining signatures by false pretenses
  If any person, with intent to defraud or cheat another, shall designedly, by color of any false token or writing, or by any other false...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-102.   Obtaining property by false representation of pedigree of animals
  If any person shall, with intent to defraud or cheat, knowingly represent any animal for breeding purposes as being of greater degree of any particular...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-103.   Obtaining certificate of registration of animals by false representation
  If any person shall, by any false representation or pretense, with intent to defraud or cheat, obtain from any club, association, society or company for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-104.   Obtaining advances under promise to work and pay for same
  If any person, with intent to cheat or defraud another, shall obtain any advances in money, provisions, goods, wares or merchandise of any description from...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-105.   Obtaining advances under written promise to pay therefor out of designated property
  If any person shall obtain any advances in money, provisions, goods, wares or merchandise of any description from any other person or corporation, upon any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-106.   Obtaining property in return for worthless check, draft or order
  Every person who, with intent to cheat and defraud another, shall obtain money, credit, goods, wares or any other thing of value by means of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-107.   Worthless checks
  (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, to draw, make, utter or issue and deliver to another, any check or draft on...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-107.1.   Prima facie evidence in worthless check cases
  (a) Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply in this section: (1) Check Passer. A natural person who draws, makes, utters, or issues...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-107.2.   Program for collection in worthless check cases
  (a) As used in this section, the terms "check passer" and "check taker" have the same meaning as defined in G.S. 14‑107.1. (a1) The Administrative...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-108.   Obtaining property or services from slot machines, etc., by false coins or tokens
  Any person who shall operate, or cause to be operated, or who shall attempt to operate, or attempt to cause to be operated any automatic...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-109.   Manufacture, sale, or gift of devices for cheating slot machines, etc
  Any person who, with intent to cheat or defraud the owner, lessee, licensee or other person entitled to the contents of any automatic vending machine,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-110.   Defrauding innkeeper or campground owner
  No person shall, with intent to defraud, obtain food, lodging, or other accommodations at a hotel, inn, boardinghouse, eating house, or campground. Whoever violates this...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-111.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(4)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-111.1.   Obtaining ambulance services without intending to pay therefor - Buncombe, Haywood and Madison Counties
  Any person who with the intent to defraud shall obtain ambulance services for himself or other persons without intending at the time of obtaining such...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-111.2.   Obtaining ambulance services without intending to pay therefor - certain named counties
  Any person who with intent to defraud shall obtain ambulance services without intending at the time of obtaining such services to pay, if financially able,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-111.3.   Making unneeded ambulance request in certain counties
  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to willfully obtain or attempt to obtain ambulance service that is not needed, or to make...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-111.4.   Misuse of 911 system
  It is unlawful for an individual who is not seeking public safety assistance, is not providing 911 service, or is not responding to a 911...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-112.   Obtaining merchandise on approval
  If any person, with intent to cheat and defraud, shall solicit and obtain from any merchant any article of merchandise on approval, and shall thereafter,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-112.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1967, c. 1088, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-112.2.   Exploitation of an elder adult or disabled adult
  (a) The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Disabled adult. A person 18 years of age or older or a lawfully emancipated minor who...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.   Obtaining money by false representation of physical defect
  It shall be unlawful for any person to falsely represent himself or herself in any manner whatsoever as blind, deaf, dumb, or crippled or otherwise...

Article 19A - Obtaining Property or Services by False or Fraudulent Use of Credit Device or Other Means.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.1.   Use of false or counterfeit credit device; unauthorized use of another's credit device; use after notice of revocation
  It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to obtain or attempt to obtain credit, or to purchase or attempt to purchase any goods, property...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.2.   Notice defined; prima facie evidence of receipt of notice
  The word "notice" as used in G.S. 14‑113.1 shall be construed to include either notice given in person or notice given in writing to the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.3.   Use of credit device as prima facie evidence of knowledge
  The presentation or use of a revoked, false, fictitious or counterfeit telephone number, credit number, or other credit device for the purpose of obtaining credit...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.4.   Avoiding or attempting to avoid payment for telecommunication services
  It shall be unlawful for any person to avoid or attempt to avoid, or to cause another to avoid, the lawful charges, in whole or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.6.   Penalties for violation; civil action
  (a) Any person violating any of the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. However, if the offense is a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.6A.   Venue of offenses
  (a) Any of the offenses described in Article 19A which involve the placement of telephone calls may be deemed to have been committed at either...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.7.   Article not construed as repealing § 14-100
  This Article shall not be construed as repealing G.S. 14‑ 100. (1961, c. 223, s. 6; 1065, c. 1147.)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.7A.   Application of Article to credit cards
  This Article shall not be construed as being applicable to any credit card as the term is defined in G.S. 14‑113.8. (1967, c. 1244, s.

Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.8.   Definitions
  The following words and phrases as used in this Chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.9.   Financial transaction card theft
  (a) A person is guilty of financial transaction card theft when the person does any of the following: (1) Takes, obtains or withholds a financial...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.10.   Prima facie evidence of theft
  When a person has in his possession or under his control financial transaction cards issued in the names of two or more other persons other...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.11.   Forgery of financial transaction card
  (a) A person is guilty of financial transaction card forgery when: (1) With intent to defraud a purported issuer, a person or organization providing money,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.12.   Prima facie evidence of forgery
  (a) When a person, other than the purported issuer, possesses two or more financial transaction cards which are falsely made or falsely embossed, such possession...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.13.   Financial transaction card fraud
  (a) A person is guilty of financial transaction card fraud when, with intent to defraud the issuer, a person or organization providing money, goods, services...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.14.   Criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices
  (a) A person is guilty of criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices when: (1) He is a person other than the cardholder and...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.15.   Criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained
  A person is guilty of criminally receiving goods and services fraudulently obtained when he receives money, goods, services or anything else of value obtained in...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.15A.   Criminal factoring of financial transaction card records
  Any person who, without the acquirer's express authorization, employs or solicits an authorized merchant, or any agent or employee of such merchant, to remit to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.16.   Presumption of criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained
  A person who obtains at a discount price a ticket issued by an airline, railroad, steamship or other transportation company from other than an authorized...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.17.   Punishment and penalties
  (a) A person who is subject to the punishment and penalties of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (b) A crime...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.18.   Reserved for future codification purposes
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.19.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 19C - Identity Fraud.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.20.   Identity theft
  (a) A person who knowingly obtains, possesses, or uses identifying information of another person, living or dead, with the intent to fraudulently represent that the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.20A.   Trafficking in stolen identities
  (a) It is unlawful for a person to sell, transfer, or purchase the identifying information of another person with the intent to commit identity theft,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.21.   Venue of offenses
  In any criminal proceeding brought under G.S. 14‑113.20, the crime is considered to be committed in the county where the victim resides, where the perpetrator...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.21A.   Investigation of offenses
  (a) A person who has learned or reasonably suspects that the person has been the victim of identity theft may contact the local law enforcement...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.22.   Punishment and liability
  (a) A violation of G.S.14‑113.20(a) is punishable as a Class G felony, except it is punishable as a Class F felony if: (i) the victim...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.23.   Authority of the Attorney General
  The Attorney General may investigate any complaint regarding identity theft under this Article. In conducting these investigations, the Attorney General has all the investigative powers...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.24.   Credit, charge, or debit card numbers on receipts
  (a) For purposes of this section, the word "person" means the person that owns or leases the cash register or other machine or device that...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.25.   Sale of certain cash registers and other receipt printing machines
  (a) No person shall sell or offer to sell a cash register or other machine or device that electronically prints receipts of credit, charge, or...

Article 19D - Telephone Records Privacy Protection Act.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.30.   Definitions
  The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Caller identification record. A record collected and retained by or on behalf of a customer utilizing caller...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.31.   Prohibition of falsely obtaining, selling, or soliciting telephone records
  (a) No person shall obtain, or attempt to obtain, by any means, whether electronically, in writing, or in oral form, with or without consideration, a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.32.   Exceptions
  (a) The provisions of G.S. 14‑113.31 shall not apply to any of the following: (1) Any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-113.33.   Punishment; liability
  (a) Unless the conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any person who violates this Article is guilty of a...

Article 20 - Frauds.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-114.   Fraudulent disposal of personal property on which there is a security interest
  (a) If any person, after executing a security agreement on personal property for a lawful purpose, shall make any disposition of any property embraced in...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-115.   Secreting property to hinder enforcement of lien or security interest
  Any person who, with intent to prevent or hinder the enforcement of a lien or security interest after a judgment or order has been issued...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-116.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(1)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-117.   Fraudulent and deceptive advertising
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, with intent to sell or in anywise to dispose of merchandise, securities, service or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-117.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(5)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-117.2.   Gasoline price advertisements
  (a) Advertisements by any person or firm of the price of any grade of motor fuel must clearly so indicate if such price is dependent...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.   Blackmailing
  If any person shall knowingly send or deliver any letter or writing demanding of any other person, with menaces and without any reasonable or probable...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.1.   Simulation of court process in connection with collection of claim, demand or account
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, association, agent or employee in any manner to coerce, intimidate, or attempt to coerce or intimidate...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.2.   Assisting, etc., in obtaining academic credit by fraudulent means
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to assist any student, or advertise, offer or attempt to assist any student,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.3.   Acquisition and use of information obtained from patients in hospitals for fraudulent purposes
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, or any officer, agent or other representative of any person, firm or corporation to obtain...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.4.   Extortion
  Any person who threatens or communicates a threat or threats to another with the intention thereby wrongfully to obtain anything of value or any acquittance,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.5.   Theft of cable television service
  (a) Any person, firm or corporation who, after October 1, 1984, knowingly and willfully attaches or maintains an electronic, mechanical or other connection to any...

Article 20A - Residential Mortgage Fraud Act.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.10.   Title
  This Article shall be known and cited as the "Residential Mortgage Fraud Act." (2007‑163, s. 1.)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.11.   Definitions
  Unless otherwise provided in this Article, the following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Mortgage lending process. The process through which a person seeks or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.12.   Residential mortgage fraud
  (a) A person is guilty of residential mortgage fraud when, for financial gain and with the intent to defraud, that person does any of the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.13.   Venue
  In any criminal proceeding brought under this Article, the crime shall be construed to have been committed: (1) In the county in which the residential...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.14.   Authority to investigate and prosecute
  Upon its own investigation or upon referral by the Office of the Commissioner of Banks, the North Carolina Real Estate Commission, the Attorney General, the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.15.   Penalty for violation of Article
  (a) Unless the conduct is prohibited by some other provision of law providing for greater punishment, a violation of this Article involving a single mortgage...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.16.   Forfeiture
  (a) All real and personal property of every kind used or intended for use in the course of, derived from, or realized through a violation...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-118.17.   Liability for reporting suspected mortgage fraud
  In the absence of fraud, bad faith, or malice, a person shall not be subject to an action for civil liability for filing reports or...

Article 21 - Forgery.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-119.   Forgery of notes, checks, and other securities; counterfeiting of instruments
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to forge or counterfeit any instrument, or possess any counterfeit instrument, with the intent to injure or defraud...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-120.   Uttering forged paper or instrument containing a forged endorsement
  If any person, directly or indirectly, whether for the sake of gain or with intent to defraud or injure any other person, shall utter or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-121.   Selling of certain forged securities
  If any person shall sell, by delivery, endorsement or otherwise, to any other person, any judgment for the recovery of money purporting to have been...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-122.   Forgery of deeds, wills and certain other instruments
  If any person, of his own head and imagination, or by false conspiracy or fraud with others, shall wittingly and falsely forge and make, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-122.1.   Falsifying documents issued by a secondary school, postsecondary educational institution, or governmental agency
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly and willfully: (1) To make falsely or alter falsely, or to procure to be made falsely...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-123.   Forging names to petitions and uttering forged petitions
  If any person shall willfully sign, or cause to be signed, or willfully assent to the signing of the name of any person without his...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-124.   Forging certificate of corporate stock and uttering forged certificates
  If any officer or agent of a corporation shall, falsely and with a fraudulent purpose, make, with the intent that the same shall be issued...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-125.   Forgery of bank notes and other instruments by connecting genuine parts
  If any person shall fraudulently connect together different parts of two or more bank notes, or other genuine instruments, in such a manner as to...

Article 22 - Damages and Other Offenses to Land and Fixtures.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-126.   Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 700, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-127.   Willful and wanton injury to real property
  If any person shall willfully and wantonly damage, injure or destroy any real property whatsoever, either of a public or private nature, he shall be...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-128.   Injury to trees, crops, lands, etc., of another
  Any person, not being on his own lands, who shall without the consent of the owner thereof, willfully commit any damage, injury, or spoliation to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-128.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 964, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-129.   Taking, etc., of certain wild plants from land of another
  No person, firm or corporation shall dig up, pull up or take from the land of another or from any public domain, the whole or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-129.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 964, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-129.2.   Unlawful to take sea oats
  (a) It is unlawful to dig up, pull up, or take from the land of another or from any public domain the whole or any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-130.   Trespass on public lands
  If any person shall erect a building on any state‑owned lands, or cultivate or remove timber from any such lands, without the permission of the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-131.   Trespass on land under option by the federal government
  On lands under option which have formally or informally been offered to and accepted by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources by...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-132.   Disorderly conduct in and injuries to public buildings and facilities
  (a) It is a misdemeanor if any person shall: (1) Make any rude or riotous noise, or be guilty of any disorderly conduct, in or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-132.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 700, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-132.2.   Willfully trespassing upon, damaging, or impeding the progress of a public school bus
  (a) Any person who shall unlawfully and willfully demolish, destroy, deface, injure, burn or damage any public school bus or public school activity bus shall...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-133.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(2)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-134.   Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 700, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-134.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 887, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-134.2.   Operating motor vehicle upon utility easements after being forbidden to do so
  If any person, without permission, shall ride, drive or operate a minibike, motorbike, motorcycle, jeep, dune buggy, automobile, truck or any other motor vehicle, other...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-134.3.   Domestic criminal trespass
  (a) Any person who enters after being forbidden to do so or remains after being ordered to leave by the lawful occupant, upon the premises...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-135.   Cutting, injuring, or removing another's timber
  If any person not being the bona fide owner thereof, shall knowingly and willfully cut down, injure or remove any standing, growing or fallen tree...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-136.   Setting fire to grass and brushlands and woodlands
  If any person shall intentionally set fire to any grassland, brushland or woodland, except it be his own property, or in that case without first...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-137.   Willfully or negligently setting fire to woods and fields
  If any person, firm or corporation shall willfully or negligently set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any woods, lands or fields,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-138.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(6)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-138.1.   Setting fire to grassland, brushland, or woodland
  Any person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity who shall in any manner whatsoever start any fire upon any grassland, brushland, or woodland without fully...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-139.   Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 1100, s. 1
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-140.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(3)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-140.1.   Certain fire to be guarded by watchman
  Any person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity who shall burn any brush, grass, or other material whereby any property may be endangered or destroyed,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-141.   Burning or otherwise destroying crops in the field
  Any person who shall willfully burn or destroy any other person's lawfully grown crop, pasture, or provender shall be punished as follows: (1) If the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-142.   Injuries to dams and water channels of mills and factories
  If any person shall cut away, destroy or otherwise injure any dam, or part thereof, or shall obstruct or damage any race, canal or other...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-143.   Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 700, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-144.   Injuring houses, churches, fences and walls
  If any person shall, by any other means than burning or attempting to burn, unlawfully and willfully demolish, destroy, deface, injure or damage any of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-145.   Unlawful posting of advertisements
  Any person who in any manner paints, prints, places, or affixes, or causes to be painted, printed, placed, or affixed, any business or commercial advertisement...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-146.   Injuring bridges
  If any person shall unlawfully and willfully demolish, destroy, break, tear down, injure or damage any bridge across any of the creeks or rivers or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-147.   Removing, altering or defacing landmarks
  If any person, firm or corporation shall knowingly remove, alter or deface any landmark in anywise whatsoever, or shall knowingly cause such removal, alteration or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-148.   Defacing or desecrating grave sites
  (a) It is unlawful to willfully: (1) Throw, place or put any refuse, garbage or trash in or on any cemetery. (2) Take away, disturb,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-149.   Desecrating, plowing over or covering up graves; desecrating human remains
  (a) It is a Class I felony, without authorization of law or the consent of the surviving spouse or next of kin of the deceased,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-150 through 14-150.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 752, s. 3, effective October 1, 1981
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-151.   Interfering with gas, electric and steam appliances
  If any person shall willfully, with intent to injure or defraud, commit any of the acts set forth in the following subdivisions, he shall be...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-151.1.   Interfering with electric, gas or water meters; prima facie evidence of intent to alter, tamper with or bypass electric, gas or water meters; unlawful reconnection of electricity, gas, or water; civil liability
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to alter, tamper with or bypass a meter which has been installed for the purpose of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-152.   Injuring fixtures and other property of gas companies; civil liability
  If any person shall willfully, wantonly or maliciously remove, obstruct, injure or destroy any part of the plant, machinery, fixtures, structures or buildings, or anything...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-153.   Tampering with engines and boilers
  If any person shall willfully turn out water from any boiler or turn the bolts of any engine or boiler, or meddle or tamper with...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-154.   Injuring wires and other fixtures of telephone, telegraph, and electric-power companies
  If any person shall willfully injure, destroy or pull down any telegraph, telephone, cable telecommunications, or electric‑power‑transmission pedestal or pole, or any telegraph, telephone, cable...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-155.   Unauthorized connections with telephone or telegraph
  It shall be unlawful for any person to tap or make any connection with any wire or apparatus of any telephone or telegraph company operating...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-156.   Injuring fixtures and other property of electric-power companies
  It shall be unlawful for any person willfully and wantonly, and without the consent of the owner, to take down, remove, injure, obstruct, displace or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-157.   Felling trees on telephone and electric-power wires
  If any person shall negligently and carelessly cut or fell any tree, or any limb or branch therefrom, in such a manner as to cause...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-158.   Interfering with telephone lines
  If any person shall unnecessarily disconnect the wire or in any other way render any telephone line, or any part of such line, unfit for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.   Injuring buildings or fences; taking possession of house without consent
  If any person shall deface, injure or damage any house, uninhabited house or other building belonging to another; or deface, damage, pull down, injure, remove...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.1.   Contaminating a public water system
  (a) A person commits the offense of contaminating a public water system, as defined in G.S. 130A‑313(10), if he willfully or wantonly: (1) Contaminates, adulterates...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.2.   Interference with animal research
  (a) It is unlawful for a person willfully to commit any of the following acts: (1) The unauthorized entry into any research facility where animals...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.3.   Trespass to land on motorized all terrain vehicle
  (a) No person shall operate any motorized all terrain vehicle: (1) On any private property not owned by the operator, without the consent of the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.4.   Reserved for future codification purposes
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.5.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 22A - Trespassing Upon "Posted" Property to Hunt, Fish, Trap, or Remove Pine Needles/Straw.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.6.   Trespass for purposes of hunting, etc., without written consent a misdemeanor
  (a) Any person who willfully goes on the land, waters, ponds, or a legally established waterfowl blind of another upon which notices, signs or posters...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.7.   Regulations as to posting of property
  The notices, signs or posters described in G.S. 14‑159.6 shall measure not less than 120 square inches and shall be conspicuously posted on private lands...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.8.   Mutilation, etc., of "posted" signs; posting signs without consent of owner or agent
  Any person who shall mutilate, destroy or take down any "posted," "no hunting" or similar notice, sign or poster on the lands, waters, or legally...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.9.   Entrance on navigable waters, etc., for purpose of fishing, hunting or trapping not prohibited
  Nothing in this Article shall be construed to prohibit the entrance of any person upon navigable waters and the bays and sounds adjoining such waters...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.10.   Enforcement of Article by peace officers; wildlife protectors authorized to execute process
  This Article may be enforced by deputy sheriffs and other peace officers with general subject matter jurisdiction. Law‑enforcement officers of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources...

Article 22B - First and Second Degree Trespass.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.11.   Definition
  As used in this Article, "building" means any structure or part of a structure, other than a conveyance, enclosed so as to permit reasonable entry...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.12.   First degree trespass
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of first degree trespass if, without authorization, he enters or remains: (1) On premises of another so enclosed...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.13.   Second degree trespass
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of second degree trespass if, without authorization, he enters or remains on premises of another: (1) After he...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.14.   Lesser included offenses
    The offenses created by this act shall constitute lesser included offenses of breaking or entering as provided in G.S. 14‑54 and G.S. 14‑56. (1987,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.15 through 14-159.19.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 22C - Cave Protection Act.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.20.   Definitions
    The terms listed below have the following definitions as used in this Article, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (1) "Cave" means...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.21.   Vandalism; penalties
  It is unlawful for any person, without express, prior, written permission of the owner, to willfully or knowingly: (1) Break, break off, crack, carve upon,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.22.   Sale of speleothems unlawful; penalties
  It is unlawful to sell or offer for sale any speleothems in this State, or to export them for sale outside the State. A person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.23.   Limitation of liability of owners and agents
    The owner of a cave, and his agents and employees, shall not be liable for any injury to, or for the death of any...

Article 23 - Trespasses to Personal Property.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-160.   Willful and wanton injury to personal property; punishments
  (a) If any person shall wantonly and willfully injure the personal property of another he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (b) Notwithstanding...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-160.1.   Alteration, destruction or removal of permanent identification marks from personal property
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to alter, deface, destroy or remove the permanent serial number, manufacturer's identification plate or other permanent, distinguishing...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-161.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(7)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-162.   Removing boats
  If any person shall loose, unmoor, or turn adrift from any landing or other place wherever the same shall be, any boat, canoe, or other...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-163.   Poisoning livestock
  If any person shall willfully and unlawfully poison any horse, mule, hog, sheep or other livestock, the property of another, such person shall be punished...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-163.1.   Assaulting a law enforcement agency animal or an assistance animal
  (a) The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Assistance animal. An animal that is trained and may be used to assist a "person with...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-164.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(8)

Article 24 - Vehicles and Draft Animals-Protection of Bailor against Acts of Bailee.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-165.   Malicious or willful injury to hired personal property
  Any person who shall rent or hire from any person, firm or corporation, any horse, mule or like animal, or any buggy, wagon, truck, automobile,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-166.   Subletting of hired property
  Any person who shall rent or hire, any horse, mule, or other like animal, or any buggy, wagon, truck, automobile, or other like vehicle, aircraft,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-167.   Failure to return hired property
  Any person who shall rent or hire, any horse, mule or other like animal, or any buggy, wagon, truck, automobile, or other vehicle, aircraft, motor,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-168.   Hiring with intent to defraud
  Any person who shall, with intent to cheat and defraud the owner thereof of the rental price therefor, hire or rent any horse or mule...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-168.1.   Conversion by bailee, lessee, tenant or attorney-in-fact
  Every person entrusted with any property as bailee, lessee, tenant or lodger, or with any power of attorney for the sale or transfer thereof, who...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-168.2.   Definitions
  For the purposes of this Article, the terms "rent," "hire" and "lease" are used to designate the letting for hire of any horse, mule or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-168.3.   Prima facie evidence of intent to convert property
  It shall be prima facie evidence of intent to commit a crime as set forth in G.S. 14‑167, 14‑168, and 14‑168.1 with respect to any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-168.4.   Failing to return rented property on which there is purchase option
  (a) It shall be a Class 2 misdemeanor for any person to fail to return rented property with intent to defeat the rights of the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-168.5.   Prima facie evidence of intent to convert a truck, automobile, or other motor vehicle; demand for return or payment
  (a) Prima Facie Evidence. It shall be prima facie evidence of intent to commit a crime as set forth in G.S. 14‑167, 14‑168, and 14‑168.1...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-169.   Violation made misdemeanor
  Except as otherwise provided, any person violating the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1927, c. 61, s. 5;...

Article 25 - Regulating the Leasing of Storage Batteries.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-170 through 14-176.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(4)-(10)

Article 26 - Offenses against Public Morality and Decency.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-177.   Crime against nature
  If any person shall commit the crime against nature, with mankind or beast, he shall be punished as a Class I felon. (5 Eliz., c....
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-178.   Incest
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of incest if the person engages in carnal intercourse with the person's (i) grandparent or grandchild, (ii) parent...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-179.   Repealed by Session Laws 2002-119, s. 2, effective December 1, 2002
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-180.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-181 through 14-182.   Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 108, s. 4
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-183.   Bigamy
  If any person, being married, shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife, every such offender, and every person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-184.   Fornication and adultery
  If any man and woman, not being married to each other, shall lewdly and lasciviously associate, bed and cohabit together, they shall be guilty of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-185.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-186.   Opposite sexes occupying same bedroom at hotel for immoral purposes; falsely registering as husband and wife
  Any man and woman found occupying the same bedroom in any hotel, public inn or boardinghouse for any immoral purpose, or any man and woman...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-187.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-188.   Certain evidence relative to keeping disorderly houses admissible; keepers of such houses defined; punishment
  (a) On a prosecution in any court for keeping a disorderly house or bawdy house, or permitting a house to be used as a bawdy...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-189 through 14-189.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 405, s. 4
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-189.2 through 14-190.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 591, s. 4
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.1.   Obscene literature and exhibitions
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to intentionally disseminate obscenity. A person, firm or corporation disseminates obscenity within the meaning...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.2.   Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 703, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.3.   Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 703, s. 3
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.4.   Coercing acceptance of obscene articles or publications
  No person, firm or corporation shall, as a condition to any sale, allocation, consignment or delivery for resale of any paper, magazine, book, periodical or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.5.   Preparation of obscene photographs, slides and motion pictures
  Every person who knowingly: (1) Photographs himself or any other person, for purposes of preparing an obscene film, photograph, negative, slide or motion picture for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.6.   Employing or permitting minor to assist in offense under Article
  Every person 18 years of age or older who intentionally, in any manner, hires, employs, uses or permits any minor under the age of 16...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.7.   Dissemination to minors under the age of 16 years
  Every person 18 years of age or older who knowingly disseminates to any minor under the age of 16 years any material which he knows...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.8.   Dissemination to minors under the age of 13 years
  Every person 18 years of age or older who knowingly disseminates to any minor under the age of 13 years any material which he knows...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.9.   Indecent exposure
  (a) Unless the conduct is punishable under subsection (a1) of this section, any person who shall willfully expose the private parts of his or her...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.10 through 14-190.12.   Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 703, s. 9
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.13.   Definitions for certain offenses concerning minors
  The following definitions apply to G.S. 14‑190.14, displaying material harmful to minors; G.S. 14‑190.15, disseminating or exhibiting to minors harmful material or performances; G.S. 14‑190.16,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.14.   Displaying material harmful to minors
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of displaying material that is harmful to minors if, having custody, control, or supervision of a commercial establishment...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.15.   Disseminating harmful material to minors; exhibiting harmful performances to minors
  (a) Disseminating Harmful Material. A person commits the offense of disseminating harmful material to minors if, with or without consideration and knowing the character or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.16.   First degree sexual exploitation of a minor
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of first degree sexual exploitation of a minor if, knowing the character or content of the material or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.17.   Second degree sexual exploitation of a minor
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of second degree sexual exploitation of a minor if, knowing the character or content of the material, he:...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.17A.   Third degree sexual exploitation of a minor
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of third degree sexual exploitation of a minor if, knowing the character or content of the material, he...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.18.   Promoting prostitution of a minor
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of promoting prostitution of a minor if he knowingly: (1) Entices, forces, encourages, or otherwise facilitates a minor...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.19.   Participating in prostitution of a minor
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of participating in the prostitution of a minor if he is not a minor and he patronizes a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-190.20.   Warrants for obscenity offenses
  A search warrant or criminal process for a violation of G.S. 14‑190.1 through 14‑190.5 may be issued only upon the request of a prosecutor. (1985,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-191.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 591, s. 4
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-192 through 14-193.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 405, s. 4
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-194.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 591, s. 4
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-195.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(11)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-196.   Using profane, indecent or threatening language to any person over telephone; annoying or harassing by repeated telephoning or making false statements over telephone
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person: (1) To use in telephonic communications any words or language of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-196.1 through 14-196.2.   Repealed by Session Laws 1967, c. 833, s. 3
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-196.3.   Cyberstalking
  (a) The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Electronic communication. Any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-197.   Using profane or indecent language on public highways; counties exempt
  If any person shall, on any public road or highway and in the hearing of two or more persons, in a loud and boisterous manner,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-198.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-199.   Obstructing way to places of public worship
  If any person shall maliciously stop up or obstruct the way leading to any place of public worship, or to any spring or well commonly...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-200 through 14-201.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(9), (10)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.   Secretly peeping into room occupied by another person
  (a) Any person who shall peep secretly into any room occupied by another person shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (a1) Unless covered...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.1.   Taking indecent liberties with children
  (a) A person is guilty of taking indecent liberties with children if, being 16 years of age or more and at least five years older...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.2.   Indecent liberties between children
  (a) A person who is under the age of 16 years is guilty of taking indecent liberties with children if the person either: (1) Willfully...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.3.   Solicitation of child by computer to commit an unlawful sex act
  (a) Offense. A person is guilty of solicitation of a child by a computer if the person is 16 years of age or older and...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.4.   Taking indecent liberties with a student
  (a) If a defendant, who is a teacher, school administrator, student teacher, school safety officer, or coach, at any age, or who is other school...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.5 through 14-202.9.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 26A - Adult Establishments.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.10.   Definitions
  As used in this Article: (1) "Adult bookstore" means a bookstore: a. Which receives a majority of its gross income during any calendar month from...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.11.   Restrictions as to adult establishments
  (a) No person shall permit any building, premises, structure, or other facility that contains any adult establishment to contain any other kind of adult establishment....
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.12.   Violations; penalties
  Any person who violates G.S. 14‑202.11 shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. Any person who has been previously convicted of a violation of...

Article 27 - Prostitution.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-203.   Definition of terms
  The term "prostitution" shall be construed to include the offering or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse for hire, and shall also be construed...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-204.   Prostitution and various acts abetting prostitution unlawful
  It shall be unlawful: (1) To keep, set up, maintain, or operate any place, structure, building or conveyance for the purpose of prostitution or assignation....
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-204.1.   Loitering for the purpose of engaging in prostitution offense
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "public place" means any street, sidewalk, bridge, alley or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or transportation facility,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-205.   Prosecution; in what courts
  Prosecutions for the violation of any of the provisions of this Article shall be tried in the courts of this State wherein misdemeanors are triable...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-206.   Reputation and prior conviction admissible as evidence
  In the trial of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this Article, testimony of a prior conviction, or testimony...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-207.   Degrees of guilt
  Any person who shall be found to have committed two or more violations of any of the provisions of G.S. 14‑204 of this Article within...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.   Punishment; probation; parole
  Any person who shall be deemed guilty in the first degree, as set forth in G.S. 14‑207, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor:...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.1 through 14-208.4.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 27A - Sex Offender and Public Protection Registration Programs.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.5.   Purpose
  The General Assembly recognizes that sex offenders often pose a high risk of engaging in sex offenses even after being released from incarceration or commitment...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.6.   Definitions
  The following definitions apply in this Article: (1a) "Aggravated offense" means any criminal offense that includes either of the following: (i) engaging in a sexual...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.6A.   Lifetime registration requirements for criminal offenders
  It is the objective of the General Assembly to establish a 10‑year registration requirement for persons convicted of certain offenses against minors or sexually violent...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.6B.   Registration requirements for juveniles transferred to and convicted in superior court
  A juvenile transferred to superior court pursuant to G.S. 7B‑2200 who is convicted of a sexually violent offense or an offense against a minor as...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.6C.   Discontinuation of registration requirement
  The period of registration required by any of the provisions of this Article shall be discontinued only if the conviction requiring registration is reversed, vacated,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.7.   Registration
  (a) A person who is a State resident and who has a reportable conviction shall be required to maintain registration with the sheriff of the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.8.   Prerelease notification
  (a) At least 10 days, but not earlier than 30 days, before a person who will be subject to registration under this Article is due...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.8A.   Notification requirement for out-of-county employment if temporary residence established
  (a) Notice Required. A person required to register under G.S. 14‑208.7 shall notify the sheriff of the county with whom the person is registered of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.9.   Change of address; change of academic status or educational employment status
  (a) If a person required to register changes address, the person shall report in person and provide written notice of the new address not later...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.9A.   Verification of registration information
  (a) The information in the county registry shall be verified semiannually for each registrant as follows: (1) Every year on the anniversary of a person's...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.10.   Registration information is public record; access to registration information
  (a) The following information regarding a person required to register under this Article is public record and shall be available for public inspection: name, sex,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.11.   Failure to register; falsification of verification notice; failure to return verification form; order for arrest
  (a) A person required by this Article to register who willfully does any of the following is guilty of a Class F felony: (1) Fails...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.11A.   Duty to report noncompliance of a sex offender; penalty for failure to report in certain circumstances
  (a) It shall be unlawful and a Class H felony for any person who has reason to believe that an offender is in violation of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.12.   Repealed by Session Laws 1997-516, s. 1
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.12A.   Request for termination of registration requirement
  (a) A person required to register under this Part may petition the superior court in the district where the person resides to terminate the registration...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.13.   File with Police Information Network
  (a) The Division shall include the registration information in the Police Information Network as set forth in G.S. 114‑10.1. (b) The Division shall maintain the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.14.   Statewide registry; Division of Criminal Statistics designated custodian of statewide registry
  (a) The Division of Criminal Statistics shall compile and keep current a central statewide sex offender registry. The Division is the State agency designated as...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.15.   Certain statewide registry information is public record: access to statewide registry
  (a) The information in the statewide registry that is public record is the same as in G.S. 14‑208.10. The Division shall release any other relevant...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.16.   Residential restrictions
  (a) A registrant under this Article shall not knowingly reside within 1,000 feet of the property on which any public or nonpublic school or child...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.17.   Sexual predator prohibited from working or volunteering for child-involved activities; limitation on residential use
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person required to register under this Article to work for any person or as a sole proprietor, with...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.18.   Reserved for future codification purposes
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.19.   Reserved for future codification purposes
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.20.   Sexually violent predator determination; notice of intent; presentence investigation
  (a) When a person is charged by indictment or information with the commission of a sexually violent offense, the district attorney shall decide whether to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.21.   Lifetime registration procedure; application of Part 2 of this Article
  Unless provided otherwise by this Part, the provisions of Part 2 of this Article apply to a person classified as a sexually violent predator, a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.22.   Additional registration information required
  (a) In addition to the information required by G.S. 14‑208.7, the following information shall also be obtained in the same manner as set out in...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.23.   Length of registration
  A person who is a recidivist, who is convicted of an aggravated offense, or who is classified as a sexually violent predator shall maintain registration...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.24.   Verification of registration information
  (a) The information in the county registry shall be verified by the sheriff for each registrant who is a recidivist, who is convicted of an...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.25.   Repealed by Session Laws 2001-373, s. 11
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.26.   Registration of certain juveniles adjudicated delinquent for committing certain offenses
  (a) When a juvenile is adjudicated delinquent for a violation of G.S. 14‑27.2 (first degree rape), G.S. 14‑27.3 (second degree rape), G.S. 14‑27.4 (first degree...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.27.   Change of address
  If a juvenile who is adjudicated delinquent and required to register changes address, the juvenile court counselor for the juvenile shall provide written notice of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.28.   Verification of registration information
  The information provided to the sheriff shall be verified semiannually for each juvenile registrant as follows: (1) Every year on the anniversary of a juvenile's...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.29.   Registration information is not public record; access to registration information available only to law enforcement agencies
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the information regarding a juvenile required to register under this Part is not public record and is not...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.30.   Termination of registration requirement
  The requirement that a juvenile adjudicated delinquent register under this Part automatically terminates on the juvenile's eighteenth birthday or when the jurisdiction of the juvenile...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.31.   File with Police Information Network
  (a) The Division shall include the registration information in the Police Information Network as set forth in G.S. 114‑10.1. (b) The Division shall maintain the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.32.   Application of Part
  This Part does not apply to a juvenile who is tried and convicted as an adult for committing or attempting to commit a sexually violent...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.40.   Establishment of program; creation of guidelines; duties
  (a) The Department of Correction shall establish a sex offender monitoring program that uses a continuous satellite‑based monitoring system and shall create guidelines to govern...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.40A.   Determination of satellite-based monitoring requirement by court
  (a) When an offender is convicted of a reportable conviction as defined by G.S. 14‑208.6(4), during the sentencing phase, the district attorney shall present to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.40B.   Determination of satellite-based monitoring requirement in certain circumstances
  (a) When an offender is convicted of a reportable conviction as defined by G.S. 14‑208.6(4), and there has been no determination by a court on...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.40C.   Requirements of enrollment
  (a) Any offender required to enroll in satellite‑based monitoring pursuant to G.S. 14‑208.40A or G.S. 14‑208.40B who receives an active sentence shall be enrolled and...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.41.   Enrollment in satellite-based monitoring programs mandatory; length of enrollment
  (a) Any person described by G.S. 14‑208.40(a)(1) shall enroll in a satellite‑based monitoring program with the Division of Community Corrections office in the county where...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.42.   Offenders required to submit to satellite-based monitoring required to cooperate with Department upon completion of sentence
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when an offender is required to enroll in satellite‑based monitoring pursuant to G.S. 14‑208.40A or G.S. 14‑208.40B, upon completion...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.43.   Request for termination of satellite-based monitoring requirement
  (a) An offender described by G.S. 14‑308.40(a)(1) who is required to submit to satellite‑based monitoring for the offender's life may file a request for termination...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.44.   Failure to enroll; tampering with device
  (a) Any person required to enroll in a satellite‑based monitoring program who fails to enroll shall be guilty of a Class F felony. (b) Any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-208.45.   Fees
  (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (b1) of this section, each person required to enroll pursuant to this Part shall pay a one‑time...

Article 28 - Perjury.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-209.   Punishment for perjury
  If any person shall willfully and corruptly commit perjury, on his oath or affirmation, in any suit, controversy, matter or cause, depending in any of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-210.   Subornation of perjury
  If any person shall, by any means, procure another person to commit such willful and corrupt perjury as is mentioned in G.S. 14‑209, the person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-211.   Perjury before legislative committees
  If any person shall willfully and corruptly swear falsely to any fact material to the investigation of any matter before any committee or commission of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-212.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Extra Session, c. 14, s. 71(7)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-213 through 14-216.   Repealed by Session Laws 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 1054, s. 6

Article 29 - Bribery.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-217.   Bribery of officials
  (a) If any person holding office under the laws of this State who, except in payment of his legal salary, fees or perquisites, shall receive,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-218.   Offering bribes
  If any person shall offer a bribe, whether it be accepted or not, he shall be punished as a Class F felon. (1870‑1, c. 232;...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-219.   Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 780, s. 1
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-220.   Bribery of jurors
  If any juror, either directly or indirectly, shall take anything from the plaintiff or defendant in a civil suit, or from any defendant in a...

Article 30 - Obstructing Justice.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-221.   Breaking or entering jails with intent to injure prisoners
  If any person shall conspire to break or enter any jail or other place of confinement of prisoners charged with crime or under sentence, for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-221.1.   Altering, destroying, or stealing evidence of criminal conduct
  Any person who breaks or enters any building, structure, compartment, vehicle, file, cabinet, drawer, or any other enclosure wherein evidence relevant to any criminal offense...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-221.2.   Altering court documents or entering unauthorized judgments
  Any person who without lawful authority intentionally enters a judgment upon or materially alters or changes any criminal or civil process, criminal or civil pleading,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-222.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(12)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-223.   Resisting officers
  If any person shall willfully and unlawfully resist, delay or obstruct a public officer in discharging or attempting to discharge a duty of his office,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-224.   Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1286, s. 26
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-225.   False reports to law enforcement agencies or officers
  Any person who shall willfully make or cause to be made to a law enforcement agency or officer any false, misleading or unfounded report, for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-225.1.   Picketing or parading
  Any person who, with intent to interfere with, obstruct, or impede the administration of justice, or with intent to influence any justice or judge of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-225.2.   Harassment of and communication with jurors
  (a) A person is guilty of harassment of a juror if he: (1) With intent to influence the official action of another as a juror,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-226.   Intimidating or interfering with witnesses
  (a) If any person shall by threats, menaces or in any other manner intimidate or attempt to intimidate any person who is summoned or acting...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-226.1.   Violating orders of court
  Any person who shall willfully disobey or violate any injunction, restraining order, or any order lawfully issued by any court for the purpose of maintaining...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-226.2.   Harassment of participant in neighborhood crime watch program
  Any person who willfully threatens or intimidates an identifiable member or a resident in the same household as the member of a neighborhood crime watch...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-227.   Failing to attend as witness before legislative committees
  If any person shall willfully fail or refuse to attend or produce papers, on summons of any committee of investigation of either house of the...

Article 30A - Secret Listening.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-227.1.   Secret listening to conference between prisoner and his attorney
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person willfully to overhear, or procure any other person to overhear, or attempt to overhear any spoken words...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-227.2.   Secret listening to deliberations of grand or petit jury
  It shall be unlawful for any person willfully to overhear, or procure any other person to overhear, or attempt to overhear the investigations and deliberations...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-227.3.   Violation made misdemeanor
  All persons violating the provisions of G.S. 14‑227.1 or 14‑227.2 shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1967, c. 187, s. 2; 1969, c....

Article 31 - Misconduct in Public Office.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-228.   Buying and selling offices
  If any person shall bargain away or sell an office or deputation of an office, or any part or parcel thereof, or shall take money,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-229.   Acting as officer before qualifying as such
  If any officer shall enter on the duties of his office before he executes and delivers to the authority entitled to receive the same the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-230.   Willfully failing to discharge duties
  If any clerk of any court of record, sheriff, magistrate, county commissioner, county surveyor, coroner, treasurer, or official of any of the State institutions, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-231.   Failing to make reports and discharge other duties
  If any State or county officer shall fail, neglect or refuse to make, file or publish any report, statement or other paper, or to deliver...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-232.   Swearing falsely to official reports
  If any clerk, sheriff, register of deeds, county commissioner, county treasurer, magistrate or other county officer shall willfully swear falsely to any report or statement...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-233.   Making of false report by bank examiners; accepting bribes
  If any bank examiner shall knowingly and willfully make any false or fraudulent report of the condition of any bank, which shall have been examined...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-234.   Public officers or employees benefiting from public contracts; exceptions
  (a) (1) No public officer or employee who is involved in making or administering a contract on behalf of a public agency may derive a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-234.1.   Misuse of confidential information
  (a) It is unlawful for any officer or employee of the State or an officer or an employee of any of its political subdivisions, in...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-235.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(11)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-236.   Repealed by Session Laws 2001-409, ss. 2, 3, effective July 1, 2002
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-237.   Repealed by Session Laws 2001-409, ss. 2, 3, effective July 1, 2002
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-238.   Soliciting during school hours without permission of school head
  No person, agent, representative or salesman shall solicit or attempt to sell or explain any article of property or proposition to any teacher or pupil...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-239.   Allowing prisoners to escape; punishment
  If any sheriff, deputy sheriff, jailer, or other custodial personnel shall willfully or wantonly allow the escape of any person committed to that person's custody...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-240.   District attorney to prosecute officer for escape
  It shall be the duty of district attorneys, when they shall be informed or have knowledge of any felon, or person otherwise charged with any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-241.   Disposing of public documents or refusing to deliver them over to successor
  It shall be the duty of the clerk of the superior court of each county, and every other person to whom the acts of the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-242.   Failing to return process or making false return
  If any sheriff, deputy, or other officer, whether State or municipal, or any person who presumes to act as any such officer, not being by...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-243.   Failing to surrender tax list for inspection and correction
  If any tax collector shall refuse or fail to surrender his tax list for inspection or correction upon demand by the authorities imposing the tax,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-244.   Failing to file report of fines or penalties
  If any officer who is by law required to file any report or statement of fines or penalties with the county board of education shall...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-245.   Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 108, s. 9
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-246.   Failure of ex-magistrate to turn over books, papers and money
  If any magistrate, on expiration of his term of office, or if any personal representative of a deceased magistrate shall, after demand upon him by...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-247.   Private use of publicly owned vehicle
  It shall be unlawful for any officer, agent or employee of the State of North Carolina, or of any county or of any institution or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-248.   Obtaining repairs and supplies for private vehicle at expense of State
  It shall be unlawful for any officer, agent or employee to have any privately owned motor vehicle repaired at any garage belonging to the State...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-249.   Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 268, s. 1
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-250.   Repealed by Session Laws 2001-424, s. 6.14(d)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-251.   Violation made misdemeanor
  Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of G.S. 14‑247 to 14‑250 shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. Nothing in...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-252.   Five preceding sections applicable to cities and towns
  General Statutes 14‑247 through 14‑251 in every respect shall also apply to cities and incorporated towns. (1931, c. 31.)

Article 32 - Misconduct in Private Office.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-253.   Failure of certain railroad officers to account with successors
  If the president and directors of any railroad company, and any person acting under them, shall, upon demand, fail or refuse to account with the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-254.   Malfeasance of corporation officers and agents
  (a) If any president, director, cashier, teller, clerk or agent of any corporation shall embezzle, abstract or willfully misapply any of the moneys, funds or...

Article 33 - Prison Breach and Prisoners.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-255.   Escape of working prisoners from custody
  If any prisoner removed from the local confinement facility or satellite jail/work release unit of a county pursuant to G.S. 162‑58 shall escape from the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-256.   Prison breach and escape from county or municipal confinement facilities or officers
  If any person shall break any prison, jail or lockup maintained by any county or municipality in North Carolina, being lawfully confined therein, or shall...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-256.1.   Escape from private correctional facility
  It is unlawful for any person convicted in a jurisdiction other than North Carolina but housed in a private correctional facility located in North Carolina...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-257.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(12)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-258.   Conveying messages and weapons to or trading with convicts and other prisoners
  If any person shall convey to or from any convict any letters or oral messages, or shall convey to any convict or person imprisoned, charged...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-258.1.   Furnishing poison, controlled substances, deadly weapons, cartridges, ammunition or alcoholic beverages to inmates of charitable, mental or penal institutions or local confinement facilities
  (a) If any person shall give or sell to any inmate of any charitable, mental or penal institution, or local confinement facility, or if any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-258.2.   Possession of dangerous weapon in prison
  (a) Any person while in the custody of the Division of Prisons, or any person under the custody of any local confinement facility as defined...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-258.3.   Taking of hostage, etc., by prisoner
  Any prisoner in the custody of the Department of Correction, including persons in the custody of the Department of Correction pending trial or appellate review...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-258.4.   Malicious conduct by prisoner
  (a) Any person in the custody of the Department of Correction, the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, any law enforcement officer, or any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-259.   Harboring or aiding certain persons
  It shall be unlawful for any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe, that any person has escaped from any prison, jail, reformatory, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-260.   Recodified as § 162-55 by Session Laws 1983, c. 631, s. 1
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-261.   Recodified as § 162-56 by Session Laws 1983, c. 631, s. 2
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-262.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-263.   Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 760, s. 4
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-264.   Recodified as § 162-57 by Session Laws 1983, c. 631, s. 3
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-265.   Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 711, s. 33

Article 34 - Custodial Institutions.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-266.   Persuading inmates to escape
  It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, or any person whatsoever to persuade or induce to leave, carry away, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-267.   Harboring fugitives
  It shall be unlawful for any person to harbor, conceal, or give succor to, any known fugitive from any institution whose inmates are committed by...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-268.   Violation made misdemeanor
  Any person violating the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1935, c. 307, s. 3; 1993, c. 539, s....

Article 35 - Offenses Against the Public Peace.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-269.   Carrying concealed weapons
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person willfully and intentionally to carry concealed about his person any bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slung shot, loaded...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-269.1.   Confiscation and disposition of deadly weapons
  Upon conviction of any person for violation of G.S. 14‑269, G.S. 14‑269.7, or any other offense involving the use of a deadly weapon of a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-269.2.   Weapons on campus or other educational property
  (a) The following definitions apply to this section: (1) Educational property. Any school building or bus, school campus, grounds, recreational area, athletic field, or other...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-269.3.   Carrying weapons into assemblies and establishments where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to carry any gun, rifle, or pistol into any assembly where a fee has been charged for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-269.4.   Weapons on State property and in courthouses
  It shall be unlawful for any person to possess, or carry, whether openly or concealed, any deadly weapon, not used solely for instructional or officially...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-269.6.   Possession and sale of spring-loaded projectile knives prohibited
  (a) On and after October 1, 1986, it shall be unlawful for any person including law‑enforcement officers of the State, or of any county, city,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-269.7.   Prohibitions on handguns for minors
  (a) Any minor who possesses or carries a handgun is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (b) This section does not apply: (1) To officers...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-269.8.   Purchase or possession of firearms by person subject to domestic violence order prohibited
  (a) In accordance with G.S. 50B‑3.1, it is unlawful for any person to own, possess, purchase, or receive or attempt to own, possess, purchase, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-270 through 14-271.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(13), (14)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-272 through 14-275.   Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 39, ss. 1-4
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-275.1.   Disorderly conduct at bus or railroad station or airport
  Any person shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor, if such person while at, or upon the premises of, (1) Any bus station, depot...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-276.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 357
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-276.1.   Impersonation of firemen or emergency medical services personnel
  It is a Class 3 misdemeanor, for any person, with intent to deceive, to impersonate a fireman or any emergency medical services personnel, whether paid...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-277.   Impersonation of a law-enforcement or other public officer
  (a) No person shall falsely represent to another that he is a sworn law‑enforcement officer. As used in this section, a person represents that he...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-277.1.   Communicating threats
  (a) A person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if without lawful authority: (1) He willfully threatens to physically injure the person or that...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-277.2.   Weapons at parades, etc., prohibited
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person participating in, affiliated with, or present as a spectator at any parade, funeral procession, picket line, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-277.3.   Stalking
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of stalking if the person willfully on more than one occasion follows or is in the presence of,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-277.4.   Obstruction of health care facilities
  (a) No person shall obstruct or block another person's access to or egress from a health care facility or from the common areas of the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-277.5.   Making a false report concerning mass violence on educational property
  (a) The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Educational property. As defined in G.S. 14‑269.2. (2) Mass violence. Physical injury that a reasonable person...

Article 36 - Offenses Against the Public Safety.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-278.   Willful injury to property of railroads
  It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully, with intent to cause injury to any person passing over the railroad or damage to the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-279.   Unlawful injury to property of railroads
  Any person who, without intent to cause injury to any person or damage to equipment, commits any of the acts referred to in G.S. 14‑278...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-279.1.   Unlawful impairment of operation of railroads
  Any person who, without authorization of the affected railroad company, shall willfully do or cause to be done any act to railroad engines, equipment, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-280.   Shooting or throwing at trains or passengers
  If any person shall willfully cast, throw or shoot any stone, rock, bullet, shot, pellet or other missile at, against, or into any railroad car,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-280.1.   Trespassing on railroad right-of-way
  (a) Offense. A person commits the offense of trespassing on railroad right‑of‑way if the person enters and remains on the railroad right‑of‑way without the consent...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-280.2.   Use of a laser device towards an aircraft
  (a) Any person who, willfully points a laser device at an aircraft, while the device is emitting a laser beam, and while the aircraft is...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-281.   Operating trains and streetcars while intoxicated
  Any train dispatcher, telegraph operator, engineer, fireman, flagman, brakeman, switchman, conductor, motorman, or other employee of any steam, street, suburban or interurban railway company, who...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-281.1.   Throwing, dropping, etc., objects at sporting events
  It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, drop, pour, release, discharge, expose or place in an area where an athletic contest or sporting...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-282.   Displaying false lights on seashore
  If any person shall make or display, or cause to be made or displayed, any false light or beacon on or near the seacoast, for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-283.   Exploding dynamite cartridges and bombs
  If any person shall fire off or explode, or cause to be fired off or exploded, except for mechanical purposes in a legitimate business, any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-284.   Keeping for sale or selling explosives without a license
  If any dealer or other person shall sell or keep for sale any dynamite cartridges, bombs or other combustibles of a like kind, without first...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-284.1.   Regulation of sale of explosives; reports; storage
  (a) No person shall sell or deliver any dynamite or other powerful explosives as hereinafter defined without being satisfied as to the identity of the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-284.2.   Dumping of toxic substances
  (a) It shall be unlawful to deposit, place, dump, discharge, spill, release, burn, incinerate, or otherwise dispose of any toxic substances as defined in this...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-286.   Giving false fire alarms; molesting fire-alarm, fire-detection or fire-extinguishing system
  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to wantonly and willfully give or cause to be given, or to advise, counsel, or aid...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-286.1.   Making false ambulance request
  It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully summon an ambulance or willfully report that an ambulance is needed when such person does not...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-286.2.   Interfering with emergency communication
  (a) Offense. A person who intentionally interferes with an emergency communication, knowing that the communication is an emergency communication, and who is not making an...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-287.   Leaving unused well open and exposed
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, after discontinuing the use of any well, to leave said well open and exposed; said...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.   Unlawful to pollute any bottles used for beverages
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation having custody for the purpose of sale, distribution or manufacture of any beverage bottle, to...

Article 36A - Riots and Civil Disorders.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.1.   Definitions
  Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this Article: (1) "Chairman of the board of county commissioners": The chairman...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.2.   Riot; inciting to riot; punishments
  (a) A riot is a public disturbance involving an assemblage of three or more persons which by disorderly and violent conduct, or the imminent threat...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.3.   Provisions of Article intended to supplement common law and other statutes
  The provisions of this Article are intended to supersede and extend the coverage of the common‑law crimes of riot and inciting to riot. To the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.4.   Disorderly conduct
  (a) Disorderly conduct is a public disturbance intentionally caused by any person who does any of the following: (1) Engages in fighting or other violent...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.5.   Failure to disperse when commanded a misdemeanor; prima facie evidence
  (a) Any law‑enforcement officer or public official responsible for keeping the peace may issue a command to disperse in accordance with this section if he...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.6.   Looting; trespass during emergency
  (a) Any person who enters upon the premises of another without legal justification when the usual security of property is not effective due to the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.7.   Transporting dangerous weapon or substance during emergency; possessing off premises; exceptions
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, it is unlawful for any person to transport or possess off his own premises any dangerous weapon...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.8.   Manufacture, assembly, possession, storage, transportation, sale, purchase, delivery, or acquisition of weapon of mass death and destruction; exceptions
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, assemble, possess, store, transport, sell, offer to sell, purchase,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.9.   Assault on emergency personnel; punishments
  (a) An assault upon emergency personnel is an assault upon any person coming within the definition of "emergency personnel" which is committed in an area:...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.10.   Frisk of persons during violent disorders; frisk of curfew violators
  (a) Any law‑enforcement officer may frisk any person in order to discover any dangerous weapon or substance when he has reasonable grounds to believe that...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.11.   Warrants to inspect vehicles in riot areas or approaching municipalities during emergencies
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 15, any law‑enforcement officer may, under the conditions specified in this section, obtain a warrant authorizing...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.12.   Powers of municipalities to enact ordinances to deal with states of emergency
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.13.   Powers of counties to enact ordinances to deal with states of emergency
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.14.   Power of chairman of board of county commissioners to extend emergency restrictions imposed in municipality
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.15.   Authority of Governor to exercise control in emergencies
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.16.   Effective time, publication, amendment, and recision of proclamations
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.17.   Municipal and county ordinances may be made immediately effective if state of emergency exists or is imminent
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.18.   Injunction to cope with emergencies at public and private educational institutions
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.19.   Governor's power to order evacuation of public building
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.20.   Certain weapons at civil disorders
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Article 36B - Nuclear, Biological, or Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.21.   Unlawful manufacture, assembly, possession, storage, transportation, sale, purchase, delivery, or acquisition of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; exceptions; punishment
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.22.   Unlawful use of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; punishment
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.23.   Making a false report concerning a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; punishment; restitution
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.24.   Perpetrating hoax by use of false nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; punishment; restitution
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Article 37 - Lotteries, Gaming, Bingo and Raffles.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-289.   Advertising lotteries
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-290.   Dealing in lotteries
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-291.   Selling lottery tickets and acting as agent for lotteries
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-291.1.   Selling "numbers" tickets; possession prima facie evidence of violation
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-291.2.   Pyramid and chain schemes prohibited
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-292.   Gambling
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-292.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 896, s. 2
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-293.   Allowing gambling in houses of public entertainment; penalty
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-294.   Gambling with faro banks and tables
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-295.   Keeping gaming tables, illegal punchboards or slot machines, or betting thereat
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-296.   Illegal slot machines and punchboards defined
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-297.   Allowing gaming tables, illegal punchboards or slot machines on premises
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-298.   Seizure of illegal gaming items
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-299.   Property exhibited by gamblers to be seized; disposition of same
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-300.   Opposing destruction of gaming tables and seizure of property
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-301.   Operation or possession of slot machine; separate offenses
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-302.   Punchboards, vending machines, and other gambling devices; separate offenses
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-303.   Violation of two preceding sections a misdemeanor
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-304.   Manufacture, sale, etc., of slot machines and devices
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-305.   Agreements with reference to slot machines or devices made unlawful
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-306.   Slot machine or device defined
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-306.1.   Repealed by Session Law 2006-6, s. 3, effective July 1, 2007, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-306.1A.   Types of machines and devices prohibited by law; penalties
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-306.2.   Violation of G.S. 14-306.1A a violation of the ABC laws
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-307.   Issuance of license prohibited
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-308.   Declared a public nuisance
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.   Violation made criminal
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.1.   Defense to possession; antique slot machines
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.2.   Repealed by Session Laws 2005-276, s. 31.1(v2), effective July 1, 2005
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.3.   Reserved for future codification purposes
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.4.   Reserved for future codification purposes
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.5.   Bingo
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.6.   Definitions
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.7.   Licensing procedure
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.8.   Limit on sessions
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.9.   Bingo prizes
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.10.   Operation of bingo
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.11.   Accounting and use of proceeds
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.12.   Violation is gambling
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.13.   Public sessions
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.14.   Beach bingo
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.15.   Raffles
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.16 through 14-309.19.   Reserved for future codification purposes
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-309.20.   Greyhound racing prohibited
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Article 38 - Marathon Dances and Similar Endurance Contests.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-310 through 14-312.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(13)-(15)
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Article 39 - Protection of Minors.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-313.   Youth access to tobacco products
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-314.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 31
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-315.   Selling or giving weapons to minors
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-315.1.   Storage of firearms to protect minors
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-315.2.   Warning upon sale or transfer of firearm to protect minor
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-316.   Permitting young children to use dangerous firearms
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-316.1.   Contributing to delinquency and neglect by parents and others
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-317.   Permitting minors to enter barrooms or billiard rooms
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-318.   Exposing children to fire
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-318.1.   Discarding or abandoning iceboxes, etc.; precautions required
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-318.2.   Child abuse a Class 1 misdemeanor
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-318.3.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 710, s. 7
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-318.4.   Child abuse a felony
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-319.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-320.   Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 716, s. 2
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-320.1.   Transporting child outside the State with intent to violate custody order
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-321.   Failing to pay minors for doing certain work
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-321.1.   Prohibit baby sitting service by sex offender or in the home of a sex offender
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Article 40 - Protection of the Family.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-322.   Abandonment and failure to support spouse and children
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-322.1.   Abandonment of child or children for six months
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-322.2.   Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 838, s. 28
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-322.3.   Abandonment of an infant under seven days of age
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-323 through 14-325.   Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 683, s. 3
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-325.1.   When offense of failure to support child deemed committed in State
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-326.   Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 683, s. 3
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-326.1.   Parents; failure to support
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Article 41 - Alcoholic Beverages.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-327 through 14-328.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 872, s. 3
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-329.   Manufacturing, trafficking in, transporting, or possessing poisonous alcoholic beverages
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-330 through 14-332.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 872, s. 3
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Article 42 - Public Drunkenness.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-333.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 872, s. 3
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-334 through 14-335.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1977, 2nd Session, c. 1134, s. 6
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Article 43 - Vagrants and Tramps.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-336.   Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 17, s. 1
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-337.   Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 108, s. 13
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-338 through 14-339.   Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 17, ss. 2, 3, effective February 17, 1983
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-340.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 700
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-341.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 699
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Article 44 - Regulation of Sales.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-342.   Selling or offering to sell meat of diseased animals
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-343.   Unauthorized dealing in railroad tickets
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-344.   Sale of admission tickets in excess of printed price
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-345.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Extra Session, c. 14, s. 72(16)
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-346.   Sale of convict-made goods prohibited
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-346.1 through 14-346.2.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(17), (18)
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Article 45 - Regulation of Employer and Employee.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-347.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 350
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-348.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 701
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-349.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 351
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-350.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 352
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-351.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 353
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-352.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 354
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-353.   Influencing agents and servants in violating duties owed employers
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-354.   Witness required to give self-incriminating evidence; no suit or prosecution to be founded thereon
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• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-355.   Blacklisting employees
  If any person, agent, company or corporation, after having discharged any employee from his or its service, shall prevent or attempt to prevent, by word...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-356.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(16)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-357.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(19)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-357.1.   Requiring payment for medical examination, etc., as condition of employment
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any employer, as defined in subsection (b) of this section, to require any applicant for employment, as defined in...

Article 46 - Regulation of Landlord and Tenant.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-358.   Local: Violation of certain contracts between landlord and tenant
  If any tenant or cropper shall procure advances from his landlord to enable him to make a crop on the land rented by him, and...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-359.   Local: Tenant neglecting crop; landlord failing to make advances; harboring or employing delinquent tenant
  If any tenant or cropper shall procure advances from his landlord to enable him to make a crop on the land rented by him, and...

Article 47 - Cruelty to Animals.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-360.   Cruelty to animals; construction of section
  (a) If any person shall intentionally overdrive, overload, wound, injure, torment, kill, or deprive of necessary sustenance, or cause or procure to be overdriven, overloaded,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-360.1.   Immunity for veterinarian reporting animal cruelty
  Any veterinarian licensed in this State who has reasonable cause to believe that an animal has been the subject of animal cruelty in violation of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-361.   Instigating or promoting cruelty to animals
  If any person shall willfully set on foot, or instigate, or move to, carry on, or promote, or engage in, or do any act towards...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-361.1.   Abandonment of animals
  Any person being the owner or possessor, or having charge or custody of an animal, who willfully and without justifiable excuse abandons the animal is...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-362.   Cockfighting
  A person who instigates, promotes, conducts, is employed at, allows property under his ownership or control to be used for, participates as a spectator at,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-362.1.   Animal fights and baiting, other than cock fights, dog fights and dog baiting
  (a) A person who instigates, promotes, conducts, is employed at, provides an animal for, allows property under his ownership or control to be used for,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-362.2.   Dog fighting and baiting
  (a) A person who instigates, promotes, conducts, is employed at, provides a dog for, allows property under the person's ownership or control to be used...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-362.3.   Restraining dogs in a cruel manner
  A person who maliciously restrains a dog using a chain or wire grossly in excess of the size necessary to restrain the dog safely is...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-363.   Conveying animals in a cruel manner
  If any person shall carry or cause to be carried in or upon any vehicle or other conveyance, any animal in a cruel or inhuman...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-363.1.   Living baby chicks or other fowl, or rabbits under eight weeks of age; disposing of as pets or novelties forbidden
  If any person, firm or corporation shall sell, or offer for sale, barter or give away as premiums living baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-363.2.   Confiscation of cruelly treated animals
  Conviction of any offense contained in this Article may result in confiscation of cruelly treated animals belonging to the accused and it shall be proper...

Article 48 - Animal Diseases.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-364.   Repealed by Session Laws 1945, c. 635

Article 49 - Protection of Livestock Running at Large.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-365.   Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 110
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-366.   Molesting or injuring livestock
  If any person shall unlawfully and on purpose drive any livestock, lawfully running at large in the range, from said range, or shall kill, maim...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-367.   Altering the brands of and misbranding another's livestock
  If any person shall knowingly alter or deface the mark or brand of any other person's horse, mule, ass, neat cattle, sheep, goat, or hog,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-368.   Placing poisonous shrubs and vegetables in public places
  If any person shall throw into or leave exposed in any public square, street, lane, alley or open lot in any city, town or village,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-369.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(20)

Article 50 - Protection of Letters, Telegrams, and Telephone Messages.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-370.   Wrongfully obtaining or divulging knowledge of telephonic messages
  If any person wrongfully obtains, or attempts to obtain, any knowledge of a telephonic message by connivance with a clerk, operator, messenger or other employee...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-371.   Violating privacy of telegraphic messages; failure to transmit and deliver same promptly
  If any person wrongfully obtains, or attempts to obtain, any knowledge of a telegraphic message by connivance with a clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-372.   Unauthorized opening, reading or publishing of sealed letters and telegrams
  If any person shall willfully, and without authority, open or read, or cause to be opened or read, a sealed letter or telegram, or shall...

Article 51 - Protection of Athletic Contests.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-373.   Bribery of players, managers, coaches, referees, umpires or officials
  If any person shall bribe or offer to bribe or shall aid, advise, or abet in any way another in such bribe or offer to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-374.   Acceptance of bribes by players, managers, coaches, referees, umpires or officials
  If any player or participant in any athletic contest shall accept, or agree to accept, a bribe given for the purpose of inducing the player...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-375.   Completion of offenses set out in §§ 14-373 and 14-374
  To complete the offenses mentioned in G.S. 14‑373 and 14‑374, it shall not be necessary that the player, manager, coach, referee, umpire, or official shall,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-376.   Bribe defined
  By a "bribe," as used in this article, is meant any gift, emolument, money or thing of value, testimonial, privilege, appointment or personal advantage, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-377.   Intentional losing of athletic contest or limiting margin of victory or defeat
  If any player or participant shall commit any willful act of omission or commission, in playing of an athletic contest, with intent to lose or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-378.   Venue
  In all prosecutions under this Article, the venue may be laid in any county where the bribe herein referred to was given, offered, or accepted,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-379.   Bonus or extra compensation not forbidden
  Nothing in this Article shall be construed to prohibit the giving or offering of any bonus or extra compensation to any manager, coach, or professional...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-380.   Repealed by Session Laws 1951, c. 364, s. 8

Article 51A - Protection of Horse Shows.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-380.1.   Bribery of horse show judges or officials
  Any person who bribes, or offers to bribe, any judge or other official in any horse show, with intent to influence his decision or judgment...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-380.2.   Bribery attempts to be reported
  Any judge or other official of any horse show shall report to the resident superior court district attorney any attempt to bribe him with respect...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-380.3.   Bribe defined
  The word "bribe," as used in this Article, shall have the same meaning as set forth in G.S. 14‑376, in relation to athletic contests. (1963,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-380.4.   Printing Article in horse show schedules
  The provisions of this Article shall be printed on all schedules for any horse show held prior to January 1, 1965. (1963, c. 1100, s.

Article 52 - Miscellaneous Police Regulations.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-381.   Desecration of State and United States flag
  It shall be unlawful for any person willfully and knowingly to cast contempt upon any flag of the United States or upon any flag of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-382.   Pollution of water on lands used for dairy purposes
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation owning lands adjoining the lands of any person, firm, or corporation which are or may...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-383.   Cutting timber on town watershed without disposing of boughs and debris; misdemeanor
  Any person, firm or corporation owning lands or the standing timber on lands within 400 feet of any watershed held or owned by any city...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-384.   Injuring notices and advertisements
  If any person shall wantonly or maliciously mutilate, deface, pull or tear down, destroy or otherwise damage any notice, sign or advertisement, unless immoral or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-385.   Defacing or destroying public notices and advertisements
  If any person shall willfully and unlawfully deface, tear down, remove or destroy any legal notice or advertisement authorized by law to be posted by...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-386.   Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(21)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-387.   Repealed by Session Laws 1945, c. 635
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-388.   Repealed by Session Laws 1943, c. 543
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-389.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(17)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-390 through 14-390.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1969, c. 970, s. 11
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-391.   Usurious loans on household and kitchen furniture or assignment of wages
  Any person, firm or corporation who shall lend money in any manner whatsoever by note, chattel mortgage, conditional sale, or purported conditional sale or otherwise,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-392 through 14-393.   Repealed by Session Laws 1989, c. 508, s. 4
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-394.   Anonymous or threatening letters, mailing or transmitting
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, or any association of persons in this State, under whatever name styled, to write and...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-395.   Commercialization of American Legion emblem; wearing by nonmembers
  It shall be unlawful for anyone not a member of the American Legion, an organization consisting of ex‑members of the army, navy and marine corps,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-395.1.   Sexual harassment
  (a) Offense. Any lessor of residential real property or the agent of any lessor of residential real property who shall harass on the basis of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-396 through 14-397.   Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(18), (19)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-398.   Theft or destruction of property of public libraries, museums, etc
  Any person who shall steal or unlawfully take or detain, or willfully or maliciously or wantonly write upon, cut, tear, deface, disfigure, soil, obliterate, break...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-399.   Littering
  (a) No person, including any firm, organization, private corporation, or governing body, agents or employees of any municipal corporation shall intentionally or recklessly throw, scatter,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-399.1.   Repealed by Session Laws 1989, c. 784, s. 7
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-399.2.   Certain plastic yoke and ring type holding devices prohibited
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Degradable" means that within one year after being discarded, the yoke or ring type holding device is capable...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-400.   Tattooing; body piercing prohibited
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to tattoo the arm, limb, or any part of the body of any other person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.   Putting poisonous foodstuffs, antifreeze, etc., in certain public places, prohibited
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to put or place (i) any strychnine, other poisonous compounds or ground glass on any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.1.   Misdemeanor to tamper with examination questions
  Any person who, without authority of the entity who prepares or administers the examination, purloins, steals, buys, receives, or sells, gives or offers to buy,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.2.   Misdemeanor for detective to collect claims, accounts, etc
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, who or which is engaged in business as a detective, detective agency, or what is...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.3.   Inscription on gravestone or monument charging commission of crime
  It shall be illegal for any person to erect or cause to be erected any gravestone or monument bearing any inscription charging any person with...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.4.   Identifying marks on machines and apparatus; application to Division of Motor Vehicles for numbers
  (a) No person, firm or corporation shall willfully remove, deface, destroy, alter or cover over the manufacturer's serial or engine number or any other manufacturer's...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.5.   Repealed by Session Laws 2004-203, s. 21, effective August 17, 2004
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.6.   Unlawful to possess, etc., tear gas except for certain purposes
  (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to possess, use, store, sell, or transport within the State of North Carolina, any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.7.   Persons, firms, banks and corporations dealing in securities on commission taxed as a private banker
  No person, bank, or corporation, without a license authorized by law, shall act as a stockbroker or private banker. Any person, bank, or corporation that...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.8.   Refusing to relinquish party telephone line in emergency; false statement of emergency
  Any person who shall willfully refuse to immediately relinquish a party telephone line when informed that such line is needed for an emergency call to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.9.   Parking vehicle in private parking space without permission
  It shall be unlawful for any person other than the owner or lessee of a privately owned or leased parking space to park a motor...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.10.   Soliciting advertisements for official publications of law-enforcement officers' associations
  Every person, firm or corporation who solicits any advertisement to be published in any law‑enforcement officers' association's official magazine, yearbook, or other official publication, shall...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.11.   Distribution of certain food at Halloween and all other times prohibited
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly distribute, sell, give away or otherwise cause to be placed in a position of human...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.12.   Soliciting charitable contributions by telephone
  (a) Any professional solicitor who solicits by telephone contributions for charitable purposes or in any way compensates another person to solicit by telephone contributions for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.13.   Failure to give right to cancel in off-premises sales
  (a) It shall be a Class 3 misdemeanor for any sellers, as defined hereinafter, in connection with an off‑premises sale, as defined hereinafter, willfully to:...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.14.   Ethnic intimidation; teaching any technique to be used for ethnic intimidation
  (a) If a person shall, because of race, color, religion, nationality, or country of origin, assault another person, or damage or deface the property of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.15.   Telephone sales recovery services
  (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person or firm to solicit or require payment of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.16.   Contaminate food or drink to render one mentally incapacitated or physically helpless
  (a) It is unlawful knowingly to contaminate any food, drink, or other edible or potable substance with a controlled substance as defined in G.S. 90‑87(5)...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.17.   Unlawful removal or destruction of electronic dog collars
  (a) It is unlawful to intentionally remove or destroy an electronic collar or other electronic device placed on a dog by its owner to maintain...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.18.   Sale of certain packages of cigarettes prohibited
  (a) Definitions. The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Cigarette. Defined in G.S. 105‑113.4. (2) Package. Defined in G.S. 105‑113.4. (b) Offenses. A person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.19.   Filing false security agreements
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or any other association of persons in this State, under whatever name styled, to present a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.20.   Defrauding drug and alcohol screening tests; penalty
  (a) It is unlawful for a person to do any of the following: (1) Sell, give away, distribute, or market urine in this State or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.21.   Practicing "rebirthing technique"; penalty
  (a) It is unlawful for a person to practice a technique, whether known as a "rebirthing technique" or referred to by any other name, to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-401.22.   Concealment of death
  (a) Any person who, with the intent to conceal the death of a person, fails to notify a law enforcement authority of the death or...

Article 52A - Sale of Weapons in Certain Counties.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-402.   Sale of certain weapons without permit forbidden
  (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation in this State to sell, give away, or transfer, or to purchase or receive, at...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-403.   Permit issued by sheriff; form of permit; expiration of permit
  The sheriffs of any and all counties of this State shall issue to any person, firm, or corporation in any county a license or permit...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-404.   Issuance or refusal of permit; appeal from refusal; grounds for refusal; sheriff's fee
  (a) Upon application, the sheriff shall issue the license or permit to a resident of that county, unless the purpose of the permit is for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-405.   Record of permits kept by sheriff
  The sheriff shall keep a book, to be provided by the board of commissioners of each county, in which he shall keep a record of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-406.   Dealer to keep record of sales
  Every dealer in pistols and other weapons mentioned in this Article shall keep an accurate record of all sales thereof, including the name, place of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-407.   Repealed by Session Laws 1997-6
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-407.1.   Sale of blank cartridge pistols
  The provisions of G.S. 14‑402, 14‑405, and 14‑406 shall apply to the sale of pistols suitable for firing blank cartridges. The sheriffs of all the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-408.   Violation of § 14-406 a misdemeanor
  Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of G.S. 14‑406 shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1919, c. 197, s....
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.   Machine guns and other like weapons
  (a) As used in this section, "machine gun" or "submachine gun" means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored...

Article 53 - Sale of Weapons in Certain Other Counties.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.1 through 14-409.9.   Repealed by Session Laws 1995, c. 487, s. 4

Article 53A - Other Firearms.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.10.   Purchase of rifles and shotguns out of State
  It shall be lawful for citizens of this State to purchase rifles and shotguns and ammunition therefor in states contiguous to this State. (1969, c....
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.11.   "Antique firearm" defined
  (a) The term "antique firearm" means any of the following: (1) Any firearm (including any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.12.   "Historic edged weapons" defined
  The term "historic edged weapon" means any bayonet, trench knife, sword or dagger manufactured during or prior to World War II but in no event...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.13 through 14-409.38.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 53B - Firearm Regulation.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.39.   Definitions
  The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Dealer. Any person licensed as a dealer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 921, et seq., or G.S. 105‑80....
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.40.   Statewide uniformity of local regulation
  (a) It is declared by the General Assembly that the regulation of firearms is properly an issue of general, statewide concern, and that the entire...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.41 through 14-409.44.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 53C - Sport Shooting Range Protection Act of 1997.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.45.   Definitions
  The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Person. An individual, proprietorship, partnership, corporation, club, or other legal entity. (2) Sport shooting range or range....
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.46.   Sport shooting range protection
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who owns, operates, or uses a sport shooting range in this State shall not be subject...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-409.47.   Application of Article
  Except as otherwise provided in this Article, this Article does not prohibit a local government from regulating the location and construction of a sport shooting...

Article 54 - Sale, etc., of Pyrotechnics.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-410.   Manufacture, sale and use of pyrotechnics prohibited; exceptions; sale to persons under the age of 16 prohibited
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any individual, firm, partnership or corporation to manufacture, purchase, sell, deal in, transport, possess, receive, advertise, use or cause...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-411.   Sale deemed made at site of delivery
  In case of sale or purchase of pyrotechnics, where the delivery thereof was made by a common or other carrier, the sale shall be deemed...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-412.   Possession prima facie evidence of violation
  Possession of pyrotechnics by any person, for any purpose other than those permitted under this article, shall be prima facie evidence that such pyrotechnics are...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-413.   Permits for use at public exhibitions
  (a) For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Article, the board of county commissioners of any county, or the governing board of a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-414.   Pyrotechnics defined; exceptions
  For the proper construction of the provisions of this Article, "pyrotechnics," as is herein used, shall be deemed to be and include any and all...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.   Violation made misdemeanor
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this Article, except as otherwise specified in said Article, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor,...

Article 54A - The Felony Firearms Act.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.1.   Possession of firearms, etc., by felon prohibited
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person who has been convicted of a felony to purchase, own, possess, or have in his custody, care,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.2.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 870, s. 3
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.3.   Possession of a firearm or weapon of mass destruction by persons acquitted of certain crimes by reason of insanity or persons determined to be incapable to proceed prohibited
  (a) It is unlawful for the following persons to purchase, own, possess, or have in the person's custody, care, or control, any firearm or any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.4 through 14-415.9.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 54B - Concealed Handgun Permit.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.10.   Definitions
  The following definitions apply to this Article: (1) Carry a concealed handgun. The term includes possession of a concealed handgun. (1a) Deployed or deployment. Any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.11.   Permit to carry concealed handgun; scope of permit
  (a) Any person who has a concealed handgun permit may carry a concealed handgun unless otherwise specifically prohibited by law. The person shall carry the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.12.   Criteria to qualify for the issuance of a permit
  (a) The sheriff shall issue a permit to an applicant if the applicant qualifies under the following criteria: (1) The applicant is a citizen of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.12A.   Firearms safety and training course exemption for qualified sworn law enforcement officers and certain other persons
  (a) A person who is a qualified sworn law enforcement officer or a qualified former sworn law enforcement officer is deemed to have satisfied the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.13.   Application for a permit; fingerprints
  (a) A person shall apply to the sheriff of the county in which the person resides to obtain a concealed handgun permit. The applicant shall...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.14.   Application form to be provided by sheriff; information to be included in application form
  (a) The sheriff shall make permit applications readily available at the office of the sheriff or at other public offices in the sheriff's jurisdiction. The...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.15.   Issuance or denial of permit
  (a) Except as permitted under subsection (b) of this section, within 90 days after receipt of the items listed in G.S. 14‑415.13 from an applicant,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.16.   Renewal of permit
  The holder of a permit shall apply to renew the permit at least 30 days prior to its expiration date by filing with the sheriff...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.16A.   Permit extensions and renewals for deployed military permittees
  (a) A deployed military permittee whose permit will expire during the permittee's deployment, or the permittee's agent, may apply to the sheriff for an extension...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.17.   Permit; sheriff to retain and make available to law enforcement agencies a list of permittees
  The permit shall be in a certificate form, as prescribed by the Administrative Office of the Courts, that is approximately the size of a North...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.18.   Revocation or suspension of permit
  (a) The sheriff of the county where the permit was issued or the sheriff of the county where the person resides may revoke a permit...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.19.   Fees
  (a) The permit fees assessed under this Article are payable to the sheriff. The sheriff shall transmit the proceeds of these fees to the county...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.20.   No liability of sheriff
  A sheriff who issues or refuses to issue a permit to carry a concealed handgun under this Article shall not incur any civil or criminal...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.21.   Violations of this Article punishable as an infraction and a Class 2 misdemeanor
  (a) A person who has been issued a valid permit who is found to be carrying a concealed handgun without the permit in the person's...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.22.   Construction of Article
  This Article shall not be construed to require a person who may carry a concealed handgun under the provisions of G.S. 14‑269(b) to obtain a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.23.   Statewide uniformity
  It is the intent of the General Assembly to prescribe a uniform system for the regulation of legally carrying a concealed handgun. To insure uniformity,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.24.   Reciprocity; out-of-state handgun permits
  (a) A valid concealed handgun permit or license issued by another state is valid in North Carolina if that state grants the same right to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.25.   Exemption from permit requirement
  Law enforcement officers and qualified retired law enforcement officers authorized by federal law to carry a concealed handgun pursuant to section 926B or 926C of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-415.26.   Certification of qualified retired law enforcement officers
  (a) In lieu of obtaining a permit under this Article, a qualified retired law enforcement officer may apply to the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education...

Article 55 - Handling of Poisonous Reptiles.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-416.   Handling of poisonous reptiles declared public nuisance and criminal offense
  The intentional exposure of human beings to contact with reptiles of a venomous nature being essentially dangerous and injurious and detrimental to public health, safety...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-417.   Regulation of ownership or use of poisonous reptiles
  It shall be unlawful for any person to own, possess, use, or traffic in any reptile of a poisonous nature whose venom is not removed,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-418.   Prohibited handling of reptiles or suggesting or inducing others to handle
  It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally handle any reptile of a poisonous nature whose venom is not removed, by taking or holding...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-419.   Investigation of suspected violations; seizure and examination of reptiles; disposition of reptiles
  In any case in which any law‑enforcement officer or animal control officer has reasonable grounds to believe that any of the provisions of this Article...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-420.   Arrest of persons violating provisions of Article
  If the examination and tests made by the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences or its designated representative as provided herein show that such...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-421.   Exemptions from provisions of Article
  This Article shall not apply to the possession, exhibition, or handling of reptiles by employees or agents of duly constituted museums, laboratories, educational or scientific...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-422.   Violation made misdemeanor
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1949, c. 1084, s. 7; 1969, c....

Article 56 - Debt Adjusting.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-423.   Definitions
  As used in this Article, the following definitions apply: (1) "Debt adjuster" means a person who engages in, attempts to engage in, or offers to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-424.   Engaging, etc., in business of debt adjusting a misdemeanor
  If any person shall engage in, or offer to or attempt to, engage in the business or practice of debt adjusting, or if any person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-425.   Enjoining practice of debt adjusting; appointment of receiver for money and property employed
  The superior court shall have jurisdiction, in an action brought in the name of the State by the Attorney General or the district attorney of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-426.   Certain persons and transactions not deemed debt adjusters or debt adjustment
  The following individuals or transactions shall not be deemed debt adjusters or as being engaged in the business or practice of debt adjusting: (1) Any...

Article 57 - Use, Sale, etc., of Glues Releasing Toxic Vapors.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-427 through 14-431.   Repealed by Session Laws 1969, c. 970, s. 11

Article 58 - Records, Tapes and Other Recorded Devices.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-432.   Definitions
  The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) "Article" means the tangible medium upon which sounds or images are recorded or otherwise stored, including any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-433.   Recording of live performances or recorded sounds and distribution, etc., of such recordings unlawful in certain circumstances
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to: (1) Knowingly transfer or cause to be transferred, directly or indirectly by any means, any sounds...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-434.   Retailing, etc., of certain recorded devices unlawful
  It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly retail, advertise or offer for sale or resale, sell or resell or cause the sale or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-435.   Recorded devices to show true name and address of manufacturer
  (a) A person is guilty of failure to disclose the origin of an article when, for commercial advantage or private financial gain, the person knowingly...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-436.   Recorded devices; civil action for damages
  Any owner of an article as defined in this Article whose work is allegedly the subject of a violation of G.S. 14‑433 or G.S. 14‑434,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-437.   Violation of Article; penalties
  (a) Every individual act in contravention of the provisions of this Article shall constitute a Class 1 misdemeanor, except that the offense is a Class...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-438.   Reserved for future codification purposes
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-439.   Reserved for future codification purposes
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-440.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 58A - Audiovisual Recordings.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-440.1.   Unlawful operation of an audiovisual recording device
  (a) Definitions. The following definitions apply to this section: (1) "Audiovisual recording device" means a digital or analog video camera, or any other technology or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-441.   Reserved for future codification purposes
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-442.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 59 - Public Intoxication.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-443.   Definitions
  As used in this Article: (1) "Alcoholism" is the state of a person who habitually lacks self‑ control as to the use of alcoholic beverages,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-444.   Intoxicated and disruptive in public
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person in a public place to be intoxicated and disruptive in any of the following ways: (1) Blocking...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-445.   Defense of alcoholism
  (a) It is a defense to a charge of being intoxicated and disruptive in a public place that the defendant suffers from alcoholism. (b) The...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-446.   Disposition of defendant acquitted because of alcoholism
  If a defendant is found not guilty of being intoxicated and disruptive in a public place because he suffers from alcoholism, the court in which...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-447.   No prosecution for public intoxication
  (a) No person may be prosecuted solely for being intoxicated in a public place. A person who is intoxicated in a public place and is...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-448 through 14-452.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 60 - Computer-Related Crime.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-453.   Definitions
  As used in this Article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms have the meanings specified: (1) "Access" means to instruct, communicate with,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-453.1.   Exceptions
  This Article does not apply to or prohibit: (1) Any terms or conditions in a contract or license related to a computer, computer network, software,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-453.2.   Jurisdiction
  Any offense under this Article committed by the use of electronic communication may be deemed to have been committed where the electronic communication was originally...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-454.   Accessing computers
  (a) It is unlawful to willfully, directly or indirectly, access or cause to be accessed any computer, computer program, computer system, computer network, or any...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-454.1.   Accessing government computers
  (a) It is unlawful to willfully, directly or indirectly, access or cause to be accessed any government computer for the purpose of: (1) Devising or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-455.   Damaging computers, computer programs, computer systems, computer networks, and resources
  (a) It is unlawful to willfully and without authorization alter, damage, or destroy a computer, computer program, computer system, computer network, or any part thereof....
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-456.   Denial of computer services to an authorized user
  (a) Any person who willfully and without authorization denies or causes the denial of computer, computer program, computer system, or computer network services to an...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-456.1.   Denial of government computer services to an authorized user
  (a) Any person who willfully and without authorization denies or causes the denial of government computer services is guilty of a Class H felony. For...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-457.   Extortion
  Any person who verbally or by a written or printed communication, maliciously threatens to commit an act described in G.S. 14‑455 with the intent to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-458.   Computer trespass; penalty
  (a) Except as otherwise made unlawful by this Article, it shall be unlawful for any person to use a computer or computer network without authority...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-459.   Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 61 - Trains and Railroads.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-460.   Riding on train unlawfully
  If any person, with the intention of being transported free in violation of law, rides or attempts to ride on top of any car, coach,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-461.   Unauthorized manufacture or sale of switch-lock keys a misdemeanor
  It shall be unlawful for any person to make, manufacture, sell, or give away to any other person any duplicate key to any lock used...

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