North Carolina § 105-449 - 76. Cancellation or revocation of license.

§ 105-449. 76. Cancellation or revocation of license.

Cancellation. - The Secretary may cancel a license issued under this Article upon the written request of the licensee. The licensee's request must include a proposed effective date of cancellation and must return the license to the Secretary on or before the proposed effective date. If the licensee's request does not include a proposed effective date of cancellation, the license is cancelled 15 days after the Department receives the written request. If the license is unable to be returned, the licensee must include a written statement of the reasons, satisfactory to the Secretary, why the license cannot be returned. The Secretary shall notify the licensee when the license is cancelled. Revocation. - The Secretary may summarily revoke a license issued under this Article when the Secretary finds that the licensee is incurring liability for the tax imposed under this Article after failing to pay a tax when due under this Article. In addition, the Secretary may revoke the license of a licensee that commits one or more of the acts listed in G.S. 105-449.120 after holding a hearing on whether the license should be revoked. Procedure. - The Secretary must send a person whose license is summarily revoked a notice of the revocation and must give the person an opportunity to have a hearing on the revocation within 10 days after the revocation. The Secretary must give a person whose license may be revoked after a hearing at least 10 days' written notice of the date, time, and place of the hearing. A notice of a summary license revocation and a notice of hearing must be sent by certified mail to the last known address of the licensee. If the person whose license may be revoked fails to attend the noticed hearing, the license revocation is effective 15 days after the noticed hearing. Release of Bond. - When the Secretary cancels or revokes a license and the licensee has paid all taxes and penalties due under this Article, the Secretary must take one of the following actions concerning a bond or an irrevocable letter of credit filed by the licensee: Return an irrevocable letter of credit to the licensee. Return a bond to the licensee or notify the person liable on the bond and the licensee that the person is released from liability on the bond. History (1995, c. 390, s. 3; 2017-204, s. 4.5(f); 2019-6, s. 4.11; 2020-58, s. 2.3(b).) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2017-204, s. 4.9, provides in part: "The remainder of this part is effective when it becomes law [August 11, 2017] and applies to requests for review filed on or after that date and to requests for review pending on that date for which the Department reissues a request for additional information, allows the taxpayer time to respond by the requested response date, and provides notification to the taxpayer that failure to timely respond to the request will result in the request for review being subject to the provisions of G.S. 105-241.13 A." Session Laws 2017-204, s. 7.1, is a severability clause. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2017-204, s. 4.5(f), effective August 11, 2017, rewrote the section heading; added the subsection designations and headings, substituted "licensee" for "license holder" and "revoke" for "cancel" and similar language throughout the section; and substituted "issue under this Article" for "of a license holder" in subsection (a). For applicability, see editor's note. Session Laws 2019-6, s. 4.11, effective March 20, 2019, substituted "licensee and the immediate return of the license to the Secretary" for "licensee" at the end of the first sentence in subsection (a); and substituted "certified mail" for "registered mail" in the last sentence of subsection (b). Session Laws 2020-58, s. 2.3(b), effective June 30, 2020, designated the existing provisions of subsection (a) as subsections (a) and (a1); rewrote subsection (a); added the heading in subsection (a1); and added the last sentence in subsection (b).