North Carolina Code — 153
Browse 332 sections in division 153 of the North Carolina code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 153A-1. Definitions.
- § 153A-2. Effect on prior laws and actions taken pursuant to prior laws.
- § 153A-3. Effect of Chapter on local acts.
- § 153A-4. Broad construction.
- § 153A-5. Statutory references deemed amended to conform to Chapter.
- § 153A-10. State has 100 counties.
- § 153A-11. Corporate powers.
- § 153A-12. Exercise of corporate power.
- § 153A-13. Continuing contracts.
- § 153A-14. Grants and loans from other governments.
- § 153A-15. Consent of board of commissioners necessary in certain counties before land may be condemned or acquired by a unit of local government outside the county.
- § 153A-15. 1. Agreement to make payment in lieu of future ad valorem taxes required before wetlands acquisition by a unit of local government.
- § 153A-17. Existing boundaries.
- § 153A-18. Uncertain or disputed boundary.
- § 153A-19. Establishing and naming townships.
- § 153A-20. Map of electoral districts.
- § 153A-22. Redefining electoral district boundaries.
- § 153A-25. Qualifications for appointive office.
- § 153A-26. Oath of office.
- § 153A-27. Vacancies on the board of commissioners.
- § 153A-27. 1. Vacancies on board of commissioners in certain counties.
- § 153A-28. Compensation of board of commissioners.
- § 153A-30. Withholding compensation; money judgment against board member.
- § 153A-34. Structure of boards of commissioners.
- § 153A-39. Selection of chairman and vice-chairman; powers and duties.
- § 153A-40. Regular and special meetings.
- § 153A-41. Procedures.
- § 153A-42. Minutes to be kept; ayes and noes.
- § 153A-43. Quorum.
- § 153A-44. Members excused from voting.
- § 153A-45. Adoption of ordinances.
- § 153A-46. Franchises.
- § 153A-47. Technical ordinances.
- § 153A-48. Ordinance book.
- § 153A-49. Code of ordinances.
- § 153A-50. Pleading and proving county ordinances.
- § 153A-52. Conduct of public hearing.
- § 153A-52. 1. Public comment period during regular meetings.
- § 153A-53. Ethics.
- § 153A-58. Optional structures.
- § 153A-59. Implementation when board has members serving a combination of four- and two-year terms.
- § 153A-60. Initiation of alterations by resolution.
- § 153A-61. Submission of proposition to voters; form of ballot.
- § 153A-62. Effective date of any alteration.
- § 153A-63. Filing copy of resolution.
- § 153A-64. Filing results of election.
- § 153A-76. Board of commissioners to organize county government.
- § 153A-77. Authority of boards of commissioners over commissions, boards, agencies, etc.
- § 153A-77. 1. Single portal of entry.
- § 153A-81. Adoption of county-manager plan; appointment or designation of manager.
- § 153A-82. Powers and duties of manager.
- § 153A-83. Acting county manager.
- § 153A-84. Interim county manager.
- § 153A-87. Administration in counties not having managers.
- § 153A-88. Acting department heads.
- § 153A-89. Interim department heads.
- § 153A-92. Compensation.
- § 153A-93. Retirement benefits.
- § 153A-94. Personnel rules; office hours, workdays, and holidays.
- § 153A-94. 1. (See note on condition precedent) Smallpox vaccination policy.
- § 153A-94. 2. Criminal history record checks of employees permitted.
- § 153A-95. Personnel board.
- § 153A-96. Participation in the Social Security Act.
- § 153A-97. Defense of officers, employees and others.
- § 153A-98. Privacy of employee personnel records.
- § 153A-99. County employee political activity.
- § 153A-99. 1. County verification of employee work authorization.
- § 153A-101. Board of commissioners to direct fiscal policy of the county.
- § 153A-102. Commissioners to fix fees.
- § 153A-102. 1: Repealed by Session Laws 2019-111, s. 2.6(a), as amended by Session Laws 2020-3, s. 4.33(a), and Session Laws 2020-25, s. 51(a), (b), (d), effective June 19, 2020.
- § 153A-103. Number of employees in offices of sheriff and register of deeds.
- § 153A-104. Reports from officers, employees, and agents of the county.
- § 153A-111. Appointment; powers and duties.
- § 153A-114. Appointment; duties.
- § 153A-121. General ordinance-making power.
- § 153A-122. Territorial jurisdiction of county ordinances.
- § 153A-123. Enforcement of ordinances.
- § 153A-124. Enumeration not exclusive.
- § 153A-125. Regulation of solicitation campaigns, flea markets and itinerant merchants.
- § 153A-126. Regulation of begging.
- § 153A-127. Abuse of animals.
- § 153A-128. Regulation of explosive, corrosive, inflammable, or radioactive substances.
- § 153A-129. Firearms.
- § 153A-130. Pellet guns.
- § 153A-131. Possession or harboring of dangerous animals.
- § 153A-132. Removal and disposal of abandoned and junked motor vehicles; abandoned vessels.
- § 153A-132. 1. To provide for the removal and disposal of trash, garbage, etc.
- § 153A-132. 2. Regulation, restraint and prohibition of abandonment of junked motor vehicles.
- § 153A-133. Noise regulation.
- § 153A-134. Regulating and licensing businesses, trades, etc.
- § 153A-135. Regulation of places of amusement.
- § 153A-136. Regulation of solid wastes.
- § 153A-138. Registration of mobile homes, house trailers, etc.
- § 153A-139. Regulation of traffic at parking areas and driveways.
- § 153A-140. Abatement of public health nuisances.
- § 153A-140. 1. Stream-clearing programs.
- § 153A-140. 2. Annual notice to chronic violators of public nuisance ordinance.
- § 153A-142. Curfews.
- § 153A-145. Limitations on regulating cisterns and rain barrels.
- § 153A-145. 1. Transportation impact mitigation ordinances prohibited.
- § 153A-145. 2. Limitations on regulating soft drink sizes.
- § 153A-145. 3. Counties enforce ordinances within public trust areas.
- § 153A-145. 4. Limitations on standards of care for farm animals.
- § 153A-145. 5. Adoption of sanctuary ordinance prohibited.
- § 153A-145. 6. Requiring compliance with voluntary State regulations and rules prohibited.
- § 153A-145. 7. Hours of certain alcohol sales.
- § 153A-145. 8. Limitations on regulation of catering by bona fide farms.
- § 153A-146. General power to impose taxes.
- § 153A-147. Remedies for collecting taxes other than property taxes.
- § 153A-148. Continuing taxes.
- § 153A-148. 1. Disclosure of certain information prohibited.
- § 153A-149. Property taxes; authorized purposes; rate limitation.
- § 153A-150. Reserve for reappraisal.
- § 153A-151. Sales tax.
- § 153A-152. 1: Repealed by Session Laws 2014-3, s. 12.3(b), effective July 1, 2015.
- § 153A-153. Animal tax.
- § 153A-154. 1. Uniform provisions for local meals taxes.
- § 153A-155. Uniform provisions for room occupancy taxes.
- § 153A-156. Gross receipts tax on short-term leases or rentals.
- § 153A-156. 1. Heavy equipment gross receipts tax in lieu of property tax.
- § 153A-158. Power to acquire property.
- § 153A-158. 1. Acquisition and improvement of school property.
- § 153A-158. 2. Acquisition and improvement of community college property.
- § 153A-163. Acquisition of property at a judicial sale, execution sale, or sale pursuant to a power of sale; disposition of such property.
- § 153A-164. Joint buildings.
- § 153A-165. Leases.
- § 153A-169. Care and use of county property; sites of county buildings.
- § 153A-170. Regulation of parking on county property.
- § 153A-176. Disposition of property.
- § 153A-177. Reconveyance of property donated to a local government.
- § 153A-178. Disposition of county property for a State psychiatric hospital.
- § 153A-185. Authority to make special assessments.
- § 153A-186. Bases for making assessments.
- § 153A-187. Corner lot exemptions.
- § 153A-188. Lands exempt from assessment.
- § 153A-189. State participation in improvement projects.
- § 153A-190. Preliminary resolution; contents.
- § 153A-191. Notice of preliminary resolution.
- § 153A-192. Hearing on preliminary resolution; assessment resolution.
- § 153A-193. Determination of costs.
- § 153A-193. 1. Discounts authorized.
- § 153A-194. Preliminary assessment roll; publication.
- § 153A-195. Hearing on preliminary assessment roll; revision; confirmation; lien.
- § 153A-196. Publication of notice of confirmation of assessment roll.
- § 153A-197. Appeal to the General Court of Justice.
- § 153A-198. Reassessment.
- § 153A-199. Payment of assessments in full or by installments.
- § 153A-200. Enforcement of assessments; interest; foreclosure; limitations.
- § 153A-201. Authority to hold assessments in abeyance.
- § 153A-202. Assessments on property held by tenancy for life or years; contribution.
- § 153A-203. Lien in favor of a cotenant or joint owner paying special assessments.
- § 153A-204. Apportionment of assessments.
- § 153A-204. 1. Maintenance assessments.
- § 153A-205. Improvements to subdivision and residential streets.
- § 153A-206. Street light assessments.
- § 153A-210. 1. (Article has an expiration note - see note) Purpose; sunset.
- § 153A-210. 3. (Article has an expiration date - see note) Petition required.
- § 153A-210. 4. (Article has an expiration date - see note) Financing a project for which an assessment is imposed.
- § 153A-210. 5. (Article has an expiration date - see note) Payment of assessments by installments.
- § 153A-210. 6. (Article has an expiration date - see note) Revenue bonds.
- § 153A-210. 7. (Article has an expiration date - see note) Project implementation.
- § 153A-211. Training and development programs for law enforcement.
- § 153A-212. Cooperation in law-enforcement matters.
- § 153A-212. 1. Resources to protect the public.
- § 153A-212. 2. Neighborhood crime watch programs.
- § 153A-212. 5: Expired pursuant to Session Laws 2018-113, s. 15.1(c), effective October 1, 2018.
- § 153A-216. Legislative policy.
- § 153A-217. Definitions.
- § 153A-218. County confinement facilities.
- § 153A-219. District confinement facilities.
- § 153A-220. Jail and detention services.
- § 153A-221. Minimum standards.
- § 153A-221. 1. Standards and inspections.
- § 153A-222. Inspections of local confinement facilities.
- § 153A-223. Enforcement of minimum standards.
- § 153A-224. Supervision of local confinement facilities.
- § 153A-225. Medical care of prisoners.
- § 153A-225. 1. Duty of custodial personnel when prisoners are unconscious or semiconscious.
- § 153A-225. 2. Payment of medical care of prisoners.
- § 153A-226. Sanitation and food.
- § 153A-228. Separation of sexes.
- § 153A-229. Jailers' report of jailed defendants.
- § 153A-230. Legislative policy.
- § 153A-230. 1. Definitions.
- § 153A-230. 2. Creation of Satellite Jail/Work Release Unit Fund.
- § 153A-230. 3. Basic requirements for satellite jail/work release units.
- § 153A-230. 4. Standards.
- § 153A-230. 5. Satellite jails/work release units built with non-State funds.
- § 153A-233. Fire-fighting and prevention services.
- § 153A-234. Fire marshal.
- § 153A-236. Honoring deceased or retiring firefighters.
- § 153A-238. Public road defined for counties.
- § 153A-239. 1. Naming roads and assigning street numbers in unincorporated areas for counties.
- § 153A-241. Closing public roads or easements.
- § 153A-242. Regulation or prohibition of fishing from bridges.
- § 153A-243. Authorizing bridges over navigable waters.
- § 153A-244. Railroad revitalization programs.
- § 153A-245. Regulation of golf carts on streets, roads, and highways.
- § 153A-246. Use of photographs or videos recorded by automated school bus safety cameras.
- § 153A-247. Provision for public health and mental health.
- § 153A-248. Health-related appropriations.
- § 153A-249. Hospital services.
- § 153A-250. Ambulance services.
- § 153A-255. Authority to provide social service programs.
- § 153A-256. County home.
- § 153A-257. Legal residence for social service purposes.
- § 153A-259. Counties authorized to contract with other entities for health and social services.
- § 153A-261. Declaration of State policy.
- § 153A-262. Library materials defined.
- § 153A-263. Public library systems authorized.
- § 153A-264. Free library services.
- § 153A-265. Library board of trustees.
- § 153A-266. Powers and duties of trustees.
- § 153A-267. Qualifications of chief librarian; library employees.
- § 153A-268. Financing library systems.
- § 153A-269. Title to library property.
- § 153A-270. Joint libraries; contracts for library services.
- § 153A-271. Library systems operated under local acts brought under this Article.
- § 153A-272. Designation of library employees to register voters.
- § 153A-274. Public enterprise defined.
- § 153A-274. 1. Flood control activities under stormwater management programs.
- § 153A-275. Authority to operate public enterprises.
- § 153A-276. Financing public enterprises.
- § 153A-277. Authority to fix and enforce rates.
- § 153A-278. Joint provision of enterprisory services.
- § 153A-279. Limitations on rail transportation liability.
- § 153A-280. Public enterprise improvements.
- § 153A-283. Nonliability for failure to furnish water or sewer services.
- § 153A-284. Power to require connections.
- § 153A-284. 1. Notes or deeds of trust to reserve wastewater treatment capacity unenforceable if capacity unused.
- § 153A-286. Law with respect to riparian rights not changed.
- § 153A-288. Venue for actions by riparian owners.
- § 153A-291. Cooperation between the Department of Transportation and any county in establishing or operating solid waste disposal facilities.
- § 153A-292. County collection and disposal facilities.
- § 153A-293. (See editor's note) Collection of fees for solid waste disposal facilities and solid waste collection services.
- § 153A-294. Solid waste defined.
- § 153A-300. Title; effective date.
- § 153A-301. Purposes for which districts may be established.
- § 153A-302. Definition of service districts.
- § 153A-303. Extension of service districts.
- § 153A-303. 1. Removal of territory from service districts.
- § 153A-304. Consolidation of service districts.
- § 153A-304. 1. Reduction in district after annexation.
- § 153A-304. 2. Reduction in district after annexation to Chapter 69 fire district.
- § 153A-304. 3. Changes in adjoining service districts.
- § 153A-304. 4. Reduction in law enforcement service district after annexation.
- § 153A-305. Required provision or maintenance of services.
- § 153A-306. Abolition of service districts.
- § 153A-307. Taxes authorized; rate limitation.
- § 153A-308. Bonds authorized.
- § 153A-309. EMS services in fire protection districts.
- § 153A-309. 2. Rate limitation in certain districts - Alternative procedure for fire protection service districts.
- § 153A-309. 3. Rate limitation in certain districts - Fire protection service districts for industrial property.
- § 153A-310. Rate limitation in certain districts - Alternative procedure for ambulance and rescue districts.
- § 153A-311. Purposes for which districts may be established.
- § 153A-312. Definition of research and production service district.
- § 153A-313. Research and production service district advisory committee.
- § 153A-314. Extension of service districts.
- § 153A-314. 1. Removal of territory from districts.
- § 153A-315. Required provision or maintenance of services.
- § 153A-316. Abolition of districts.
- § 153A-316. 1. Urban research service district (URSD).
- § 153A-316. 2. URSD advisory committee.
- § 153A-316. 3. Extension of URSD.
- § 153A-316. 4. Removal of territory from URSD.
- § 153A-316. 5. Required provision or maintenance of services in URSD.
- § 153A-316. 6. Abolition of URSD.
- § 153A-317. Research and production service district taxes authorized; rate limitation.
- § 153A-317. 1. Urban research service district taxes authorized; rate.
- § 153A-317. 11. Purpose and nature of districts.
- § 153A-317. 12. Definition of economic development and training district.
- § 153A-317. 13. Advisory committee.
- § 153A-317. 14. Extension of economic development and training districts.
- § 153A-317. 15. Required provision or maintenance of skills training center.
- § 153A-317. 16. Abolition of economic development and training districts.
- § 153A-317. 17. Taxes authorized; rate limitation.
- § 153A-391. Creation; admission of new members.
- § 153A-392. Contents of resolution.
- § 153A-393. Withdrawal from commission.
- § 153A-394. Organization of the commission.
- § 153A-395. Powers and duties.
- § 153A-396. Fiscal affairs.
- § 153A-397. Reports.
- § 153A-398. Regional planning and economic development commissions.
- § 153A-401. Establishment; support.
- § 153A-402. Purposes of a commission.
- § 153A-403. Content of concurrent resolutions.
- § 153A-404. Powers of a commission.
- § 153A-405. Referendum; General Assembly action.
- § 153A-411. (Repealed effective January 1, 2022 - see note) Definitions.
- § 153A-412. (Repealed effective January 1, 2022 - see note) Borrowing authority for PPP loans.
- § 153A-421. Definitions; applicability; creation of authorities.
- § 153A-422. Purposes of an authority.
- § 153A-423. Membership; board; delegates.
- § 153A-424. Contents of charter.
- § 153A-425. Organization of authorities.
- § 153A-426. Withdrawal from an authority.
- § 153A-427. Powers of an authority.
- § 153A-428. Fiscal accountability; support from other governments.
- § 153A-429. Long-term contract permitted by and with an authority.