North Carolina § 131D-2 - 5. License and registration fees.

§ 131D-2. 5. License and registration fees.

The Department shall charge each adult care home with six or fewer beds a nonrefundable annual license fee in the amount of three hundred fifteen dollars ($315.00). The Department shall charge each adult care home with more than six beds a nonrefundable annual license fee in the amount of three hundred sixty dollars ($360.00) plus a nonrefundable annual per-bed fee of seventeen dollars and fifty cents ($17.50). The Department shall charge each registered multiunit assisted housing with services program a nonrefundable annual registration fee of three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00). Any individual or corporation that establishes, conducts, manages, or operates a multiunit housing with services program, subject to registration under this section, that fails to register is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and, upon conviction shall be punishable only by a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first offense and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each subsequent offense. Each day of a continuing violation after conviction shall be considered a separate offense. History (2009-451, s. 10.76(a1); 2009-462, ss. 1(e), 3(b).) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2009-451, s. 10.76(a1), which amended this section, was contingent on House Bill 456, 2009 Regular Session (Session Laws 2009-462) becoming law, which it did. Session Laws 2009-451, s. 1.2, provides: "This act shall be known as the 'Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2009'." Session Laws 2009-451, s. 28.5, is a severability clause. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2009-451, s. 10.76(a1), effective August 14, 2009, substituted "three hundred fifteen dollars ($315.00)" for "two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00)" in the first sentence, and in the second sentence, substituted "three hundred sixty dollars ($360.00)" for "three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00)" near the middle, and "seventeen dollars and fifty cents ($17.50)" for "twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50)" at the end. Session Laws 2009-462, s. 3(b), effective January 1, 2010, inserted "and registration" in the section heading; designated the existing provisions as subsection (a); and added subsection (b).