North Carolina Code — 015
Browse 654 sections in division 015 of the North Carolina code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 15-1. Statute of limitations for misdemeanors.
- § 15-4. Accused entitled to counsel.
- § 15-6. Imprisonment to be in county jail.
- § 15-6. 1. Changing place of confinement of prisoner committing offense.
- § 15-6. 2. Concurrent sentences for offenses of different grades or to be served in different places.
- § 15-6. 3. Credit for service of sentence while in another jurisdiction.
- § 15-7. Postmortem examinations directed.
- § 15-8. Stolen property returned to owner.
- § 15-10. Speedy trial or discharge on commitment for felony.
- § 15-10. 1. Detainer; purpose; manner of use.
- § 15-10. 2. Mandatory disposition of detainers - request for final disposition of charges; continuance; information to be furnished prisoner.
- § 15-10. 3. Mandatory disposition of detainers - procedure; return of prisoner after trial.
- § 15-10. 4. Mandatory disposition of detainers - exception as to prisoners who are mentally ill.
- § 15-11. Sheriffs and police departments to maintain register of personal property confiscated, seized or found.
- § 15-11. 1. Seizure, custody and disposition of articles; exceptions.
- § 15-11. 2. Disposition of unclaimed firearms not confiscated or seized as trial evidence.
- § 15-12. Publication of notice of unclaimed property; advertisement and sale or donation of unclaimed bicycles.
- § 15-13. Public sale 30 days after publication of notice.
- § 15-14. Notice of sale.
- § 15-14. 1. Sale of property through electronic auction.
- § 15-15. Disbursement of proceeds of sale.
- § 15-16. Nonliability of officers.
- § 15-17. Construction of Article.
- § 15-24. 1. Amendment of warrant to show ownership of property.
- § 15-27. 2. Warrants to conduct inspections authorized by law.
- § 15-43. House broken open to prevent felony.
- § 15-53. Governor may employ agents, and offer rewards.
- § 15-53. 1. Governor may offer rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction.
- § 15-54. Officer entitled to reward.
- § 15-103. 1: Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 711, s. 33.
- § 15-103. 2: Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 166, s. 26.
- § 15-104. 1: Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 166, s. 26.
- § 15-107. 1: Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 166, s. 26.
- § 15-126. Commitment to county jail.
- § 15-129. In offenses on waters dividing counties.
- § 15-130. Assault in one county, death in another.
- § 15-131. Assault in this State, death in another.
- § 15-132. Person in this State injuring one in another.
- § 15-133. In county where death occurs.
- § 15-144. Essentials of bill for homicide.
- § 15-144. 1. Essentials of bill for rape.
- § 15-144. 2. Essentials of bill for sex offense.
- § 15-145. Form of bill for perjury.
- § 15-146. Bill for subornation of perjury.
- § 15-148. Manner of alleging joint ownership of property.
- § 15-149. Description in bill for larceny of money.
- § 15-150. Description in bill for embezzlement.
- § 15-151. Intent to defraud; larceny and receiving.
- § 15-153. Bill or warrant not quashed for informality.
- § 15-155. Defects which do not vitiate.
- § 15-155. 1. Reports to district attorneys of Work First Family Assistance and out-of-wedlock births.
- § 15-155. 2. District attorney to take action on report of Work First Family Assistance and children born out of wedlock.
- § 15-155. 3. Disclosure of information by district attorney or agent.
- § 15-166. Exclusion of bystanders in trial for rape and sex offenses.
- § 15-167. Extension of session of court by trial judge.
- § 15-168. Justification as defense to libel.
- § 15-169. Conviction of assault, when included in charge.
- § 15-170. Conviction for a less degree or an attempt.
- § 15-172. Verdict for murder in first or second degree.
- § 15-173. Demurrer to the evidence.
- § 15-176. Prisoner not to be tried in prison uniform.
- § 15-176. 1. District attorney may argue for death penalty.
- § 15-176. 2: Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 44, s. 1.
- § 15-176. 3. Informing and questioning potential jurors on consequences of guilty verdict.
- § 15-176. 4. Instruction to jury on consequences of guilty verdict.
- § 15-176. 5. Argument to jury on consequences of guilty verdict.
- § 15-176. 9. Loss of motor vehicle driver's license.
- § 15-186. 1: Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 44, s. 1.
- § 15-187. Death by administration of lethal drugs.
- § 15-188. Manner and place of execution.
- § 15-188. 1. Health care professional assistance.
- § 15-189. Sentence of death; prisoner taken to penitentiary.
- § 15-190. Person or persons to be designated by warden to execute sentence; supervision of execution; who shall be present.
- § 15-191. Pending sentences unaffected.
- § 15-192. Certificate filed with clerk.
- § 15-193. Notice of reprieve or new trial.
- § 15-194. Time for execution.
- § 15-195. Prisoner taken to place of trial when new trial granted.
- § 15-196. 1. Credits allowed.
- § 15-196. 2. Allowance in cases of multiple sentences.
- § 15-196. 3. Effect of credit.
- § 15-196. 4. Procedures for judicial award.
- § 15-200. 2: Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 309, s. 2.
- § 15-203. Duties of the Secretary of Public Safety; appointment of probation officers; reports; requests for extradition.
- § 15-203. 1: Repealed by Session Laws 1963, c. 914, s. 6.
- § 15-204. Assignment, compensation and oath of probation officers.
- § 15-205. Duties and powers of the probation officers.
- § 15-205. 1: Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 711, s. 33.
- § 15-206. Cooperation with Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety and officials of local units.
- § 15-207. Records treated as privileged information.
- § 15-209. Accommodations for probation offices.
- § 15A-101. Definitions.
- § 15A-101. 1. Electronic technology in criminal process and procedure.
- § 15A-131. Venue generally.
- § 15A-132. Concurrent venue.
- § 15A-133. Waiver of venue; motion for change of venue; indictment may be returned in other county.
- § 15A-134. Offense occurring in part outside North Carolina.
- § 15A-135. Allegation of venue conclusive in absence of timely motion.
- § 15A-136. Venue for sexual offenses.
- § 15A-141. When entry of attorney in criminal proceeding occurs.
- § 15A-142. Requirement that clerk record entry.
- § 15A-143. Attorney making general entry obligated to represent defendant at all subsequent stages.
- § 15A-144. Withdrawal of attorney with permission of court.
- § 15A-145. Expunction of records for first offenders under the age of 18 at the time of conviction of misdemeanor; expunction of certain other misdemeanors.
- § 15A-145. 1. Expunction of records for first offenders under the age of 18 at the time of conviction of certain gang offenses.
- § 15A-145. 2. Expunction of records for first offenders not over 21 years of age at the time of the offense of certain drug offenses.
- § 15A-145. 3. Expunction of records for first offenders not over 21 years of age at the time of the offense of certain toxic vapors offenses.
- § 15A-145. 4. Expunction of records for first offenders who are under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of a nonviolent felony.
- § 15A-145. 5. Expunction of certain misdemeanors and felonies; no age limitation.
- § 15A-145. 6. Expunctions for certain defendants convicted of prostitution.
- § 15A-145. 7. Expunction of records for first offenders under 20 years of age at the time of the offense of certain offenses.
- § 15A-145. 8. Expunction of records when charges are remanded to district court for juvenile adjudication.
- § 15A-145. 8A. Expunction of records for offenders under the age of 18 at the time of commission of certain misdemeanors and felonies upon completion of the sentence.
- § 15A-145. 9. Expunctions of certain offenses committed by human trafficking victims.
- § 15A-146. Expunction of records when charges are dismissed or there are findings of not guilty.
- § 15A-147. Expunction of records when charges are dismissed or there are findings of not guilty as a result of identity theft or mistaken identity.
- § 15A-148. Expunction of DNA records when charges are dismissed on appeal or pardon of innocence is granted.
- § 15A-149. Expunction of records when pardon of innocence is granted.
- § 15A-150. Notification requirements.
- § 15A-151. Confidential agency files; exceptions to expunction.
- § 15A-151. 5. Prosecutor access to expunged files.
- § 15A-152. Civil liability for dissemination of certain criminal history information.
- § 15A-153. Effect of expunction; prohibited practices by employers, educational institutions, agencies of State and local governments.
- § 15A-160. Reporting requirement.
- § 15A-173. 1. Definitions.
- § 15A-173. 2. Certificate of Relief.
- § 15A-173. 3. Collateral sanctions not subject to order of limited relief or Certificate of Relief.
- § 15A-173. 4. Issuance, modification, and revocation of Certificate of Relief by the court.
- § 15A-173. 5. Reliance on order or Certificate of Relief as evidence of due care.
- § 15A-173. 6. Victim's rights.
- § 15A-211. Electronic recording of interrogations.
- § 15A-220. SBI and State Crime Laboratory access to view and analyze recordings.
- § 15A-221. General authorization; definition of "consent".
- § 15A-222. Person from whom effective consent may be obtained.
- § 15A-223. Permissible scope of consent search and seizure.
- § 15A-231. Other searches and seizures.
- § 15A-241. Definition of search warrant.
- § 15A-242. Items subject to seizure under a search warrant.
- § 15A-243. Who may issue a search warrant.
- § 15A-244. Contents of the application for a search warrant.
- § 15A-245. Basis for issuance of a search warrant; duty of the issuing official.
- § 15A-246. Form and content of the search warrant.
- § 15A-247. Who may execute a search warrant.
- § 15A-248. Time of execution of a search warrant.
- § 15A-249. Officer to give notice of identity and purpose.
- § 15A-251. Entry by force.
- § 15A-252. Service of a search warrant.
- § 15A-253. Scope of the search; seizure of items not named in the warrant.
- § 15A-254. List of items seized.
- § 15A-255. Frisk of persons present in premises or vehicle to be searched.
- § 15A-256. Detention and search of persons present in private premises or vehicle to be searched.
- § 15A-257. Return of the executed warrant.
- § 15A-258. Disposition of seized property.
- § 15A-259. Application of Article to all warrants; exception as to inspection warrants and special riot situations.
- § 15A-260. Definitions.
- § 15A-261. Prohibition and exceptions.
- § 15A-262. Application for order for pen register or trap and trace device.
- § 15A-263. Issuance of order for pen register or trap and trace device.
- § 15A-264. Assistance in installation and use of a pen register or a trap and trace device.
- § 15A-266. Short title.
- § 15A-266. 1. Policy.
- § 15A-266. 2. Definitions.
- § 15A-266. 3. Establishment of State DNA database and databank.
- § 15A-266. 3A. DNA sample required for DNA analysis upon arrest for certain offenses.
- § 15A-266. 4. DNA sample required for DNA analysis upon conviction or finding of not guilty by reason of insanity.
- § 15A-266. 5. Tests to be performed on DNA sample.
- § 15A-266. 5A. Statewide sexual assault examination kit testing protocol.
- § 15A-266. 6. Procedures for obtaining DNA sample for analysis; refusal to provide sample.
- § 15A-266. 7. Procedures for conducting DNA analysis of DNA sample.
- § 15A-266. 8. DNA database exchange.
- § 15A-266. 9. Cancellation of authority to exchange DNA records.
- § 15A-266. 10: Repealed by Session Laws 2001-282, s. 3, effective October 1, 2001.
- § 15A-266. 11. Unauthorized uses of DNA Databank; penalties.
- § 15A-266. 12. Confidentiality of records.
- § 15A-267. Access to DNA samples from crime scene.
- § 15A-268. Preservation of biological evidence.
- § 15A-269. Request for postconviction DNA testing.
- § 15A-270. Post-test procedures.
- § 15A-270. 1. Right to appeal denial of defendant's motion for DNA testing.
- § 15A-271. Authority to issue order.
- § 15A-272. Time of application; additional investigative procedures not precluded.
- § 15A-273. Basis for order.
- § 15A-274. Issuance of order.
- § 15A-275. Modification of order.
- § 15A-276. Failure to appear.
- § 15A-277. Service of order.
- § 15A-278. Contents of order.
- § 15A-279. Implementation of order.
- § 15A-280. Return.
- § 15A-281. Nontestimonial identification order at request of defendant.
- § 15A-282. Copy of results to person involved.
- § 15A-284. 50. Short title.
- § 15A-284. 51. Purpose.
- § 15A-284. 52. Eyewitness identification reform.
- § 15A-284. 53. Training of law enforcement officers.
- § 15A-285. Non-law-enforcement actions when urgently necessary.
- § 15A-286. Definitions.
- § 15A-287. Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited.
- § 15A-288. Manufacture, distribution, possession, and advertising of wire, oral, or electronic communication intercepting devices prohibited.
- § 15A-289. Confiscation of wire, oral, or electronic communication interception devices.
- § 15A-290. Offenses for which orders for electronic surveillance may be granted.
- § 15A-291. Application for electronic surveillance order; judicial review panel.
- § 15A-292. Request for application for electronic surveillance order.
- § 15A-293. Issuance of order for electronic surveillance; procedures for implementation.
- § 15A-294. Authorization for disclosure and use of intercepted wire, oral, or electronic communications.
- § 15A-295. Reports concerning intercepted wire, oral, or electronic communications.
- § 15A-296. Recovery of civil damages authorized.
- § 15A-297. Conformity to provisions of federal law.
- § 15A-298. Subpoena authority.
- § 15A-299. Discontinuation of telecommunications services used for unlawful purposes.
- § 15A-300. 1. Restrictions on use of unmanned aircraft systems.
- § 15A-300. 2. Regulation of launch and recovery sites.
- § 15A-300. 3. Use of an unmanned aircraft system near a confinement or correctional facility prohibited.
- § 15A-301. Criminal process generally.
- § 15A-301. 1. Electronic Repository.
- § 15A-302. Citation.
- § 15A-303. Criminal summons.
- § 15A-304. Warrant for arrest.
- § 15A-305. Order for arrest.
- § 15A-311. Consulate documents not acceptable as identification.
- § 15A-401. Arrest by law-enforcement officer.
- § 15A-402. Territorial jurisdiction of officers to make arrests.
- § 15A-403. Arrest by officers from other states.
- § 15A-404. Detention of offenders by private persons.
- § 15A-405. Assistance to law-enforcement officers by private persons to effect arrest or prevent escape; benefits for private persons.
- § 15A-406. Assistance by federal officers.
- § 15A-501. Police processing and duties upon arrest generally.
- § 15A-502. Photographs and fingerprints.
- § 15A-502. 1. DNA sample upon arrest.
- § 15A-503. Police assistance to persons arrested while unconscious or semiconscious.
- § 15A-504. Return of released person.
- § 15A-505. Notification of parent and school.
- § 15A-511. Initial appearance.
- § 15A-521. Commitment to detention facility pending trial.
- § 15A-531. Definitions.
- § 15A-532. Persons authorized to determine conditions for release.
- § 15A-533. Right to pretrial release in capital and noncapital cases.
- § 15A-534. Procedure for determining conditions of pretrial release.
- § 15A-534. 1. Crimes of domestic violence; bail and pretrial release.
- § 15A-534. 2. Detention of impaired drivers.
- § 15A-534. 3. Detention for communicable diseases.
- § 15A-534. 4. Sex offenses and crimes of violence against child victims: bail and pretrial release.
- § 15A-534. 5. Detention to protect public health.
- § 15A-534. 6. Bail in cases of manufacture of methamphetamine.
- § 15A-534. 7. Communicating a threat of mass violence; bail and pretrial release.
- § 15A-535. Issuance of policies on pretrial release.
- § 15A-536. Release after conviction in the superior court.
- § 15A-537. Persons authorized to effect release.
- § 15A-538. Modification of order on motion of person detained; substitution of surety.
- § 15A-539. Modification upon motion of prosecutor.
- § 15A-540. Surrender of a defendant by a surety; setting new conditions of release.
- § 15A-541. Persons prohibited from becoming surety.
- § 15A-542. False qualification by surety.
- § 15A-543. Penalties for failure to appear.
- § 15A-544. 1. Forfeiture jurisdiction.
- § 15A-544. 2. Identifying information on bond.
- § 15A-544. 3. Entry of forfeiture.
- § 15A-544. 4. Notice of forfeiture.
- § 15A-544. 5. Setting aside forfeiture.
- § 15A-544. 6. Final judgment of forfeiture.
- § 15A-544. 7. Docketing and enforcement of final judgment of forfeiture.
- § 15A-544. 8. Relief from final judgment of forfeiture.
- § 15A-546. Contempt.
- § 15A-547. Right to habeas corpus.
- § 15A-547. 1. Remit bail bond if defendant sentenced to community or intermediate punishment.
- § 15A-601. First appearance before a district court judge; right in felony and other cases in original jurisdiction of superior court; consolidation of first appearance before magistrate and before district court judge; first appearance before clerk of superior court.
- § 15A-602. Warning of right against self-incrimination.
- § 15A-603. Assuring defendant's right to counsel.
- § 15A-604. Determination of sufficiency of charge.
- § 15A-605. Additional proceedings at first appearance before judge.
- § 15A-606. Demand or waiver of probable-cause hearing.
- § 15A-611. Probable-cause hearing procedure.
- § 15A-612. Disposition of charge on probable-cause hearing.
- § 15A-613. Setting offense for trial in district court.
- § 15A-614. Review of eligibility for pretrial release.
- § 15A-615. Testing of certain persons for sexually transmitted infections.
- § 15A-621. "Grand jury" defined.
- § 15A-622. Formation and organization of grand juries; other preliminary matters.
- § 15A-623. Grand jury proceedings and operation in general.
- § 15A-624. Grand jury the judge of facts; judge the source of legal advice.
- § 15A-626. Who may call witnesses before grand jury; no right to appear without consent of prosecutor or judge.
- § 15A-627. Submission of bill of indictment to grand jury by prosecutor.
- § 15A-628. Functions of grand jury; record to be kept by clerk.
- § 15A-629. Procedure upon finding of not a true bill; release of defendant, etc.; institution of new charge.
- § 15A-630. Notice to defendant of true bill of indictment.
- § 15A-631. Grand jury venue.
- § 15A-641. Indictment and related instruments; definitions of indictment, information, and presentment.
- § 15A-642. Prosecutions originating in superior court to be upon indictment or information; waiver of indictment.
- § 15A-643. Joinder of offenses and defendants and consolidation of indictments and informations.
- § 15A-644. Form and content of indictment, information or presentment.
- § 15A-644. 1. Filing of information when plea of guilty or no contest in district court to Class H or I felony.
- § 15A-645. Allegations of previous convictions.
- § 15A-646. Superseding indictments and informations.
- § 15A-711. Securing attendance of criminal defendants confined in institutions within the State; requiring prosecutor to proceed.
- § 15A-721. Definitions.
- § 15A-722. Duty of Governor as to fugitives from justice of other states.
- § 15A-723. Form of demand for extradition.
- § 15A-724. Governor may cause investigation to be made.
- § 15A-725. Extradition of persons imprisoned or awaiting trial in another state or who have left the demanding state under compulsion.
- § 15A-726. Extradition of persons not present in demanding state at time of commission of crime.