North Carolina § 66-385 - Short title.

§ 66-385. Short title.

This Part shall be known and may be cited as the Pawnbrokers and Cash Converters Modernization Act. History (1989, c. 638, s. 2; 2011-325, s. 2; 2012-46, ss. 2, 4.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2011-325, s. 1, effective December 1, 2011, and applicable to purchases by cash converters on or after that date, rewrote the Chapter 91A heading, which formerly read "Pawnbrokers Modernization Act of 1989." Session Laws 2012-46, s. 2, recodified former Chapter 91A (G.S. 91A-1 through 91A-14) as Part 1 of Article 45 of Chapter 66 (G.S. 66-385 through G.S. 66-399). Historical citations and annotations to former sections have been set out in the new sections where appropriate. The numbers of former G.S. 91A-9 to 91A-14 were assigned by the Revisor of Statutes, the section numbers in Session Laws 1989, c. 638, s. 2 having been G.S. 91A-9 to 91A-22. Former G.S. 91A-1 was recodified as this section by Session Laws 2012-46, s. 2, effective October 1, 2012, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date. Session Laws 2012-46, s. 32, provides: "Pawnbroker licenses and permits to engage as a dealer in the business of purchasing precious metals that are valid on the effective date of this act shall continue in force until the natural expiration thereof, unless otherwise revoked or suspended in accordance with applicable law." Session Laws 2012-46, s. 33, provides: "This act becomes effective October 1, 2012, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date. Prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of this act are not abated or affected by this act, and the statutes that would be applicable but for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions." Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2012-46, s. 4, substituted "Part" for "Chapter." For effective date and applicability provision, see Editor's note. Legal Periodicals. - For article, "The Learned Profession Exemption of the North Carolina Deceptive Trade Practices Act: The Wrong Bright Line?," see 15 Campbell L. Rev. 223 (1993).