North Carolina
North Carolina General Statutes — Crimes & Controlled Substances
2,735 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 14-1 — Felonies and misdemeanors defined
- § 14-1.1 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c
- § 14-10 — Secret political and military organizations forbidden
- § 14-10.1 — Terrorism
- § 14-100 — Obtaining property by false pretenses
- § 14-100.1 — Possession or manufacture of certain fraudulent forms of identification
- § 14-100.T — his Article shall not be construed as repealing G
- § 14-101 — Obtaining signatures by false pretenses
- § 14-102 — Obtaining property by false representation of pedigree of animals
- § 14-103 — Obtaining certificate of registration of animals by false representation
- § 14-104 — Obtaining advances under promise to work and pay for same
- § 14-105 — Obtaining advances under written promise to pay therefor out of designated property
- § 14-106 — Obtaining property in return for worthless check, draft or order
- § 14-107 — Worthless checks; multiple presentment of checks
- § 14-107.1 — Prima facie evidence in worthless check cases
- § 14-107.2 — Program for collection in worthless check cases
- § 14-108 — Obtaining property or services from slot machines, etc
- § 14-109 — Manufacture, sale, or gift of devices for cheating slot machines, etc
- § 14-11 — Activities aimed at overthrow of government; use of public buildings
- § 14-110 — Defrauding innkeeper or campground owner
- § 14-111 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex
- § 14-111.1 — Obtaining ambulance services without intending to pay therefor - Buncombe, Haywood and Madison Counties
- § 14-111.2 — Obtaining ambulance services without intending to pay therefor - certain named counties
- § 14-111.3 — Making unneeded ambulance request in certain counties
- § 14-111.4 — Misuse of 911 system
- § 14-112 — Obtaining merchandise on approval
- § 14-112.1 — Repealed by Session Laws 1967, c
- § 14-112.2 — Exploitation of an older adult or disabled adult
- § 14-112.3 — Asset freeze or seizure; proceeding
- § 14-113 — Obtaining money by false representation of physical disability
- § 14-113.1 — Use of false or counterfeit credit device; unauthorized use of another's credit device; use after notice of revocation
- § 14-113.10 — Prima facie evidence of theft
- § 14-113.11 — Forgery of financial transaction card
- § 14-113.12 — Prima facie evidence of forgery
- § 14-113.13 — Financial transaction card fraud
- § 14-113.14 — Criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices
- § 14-113.15 — Criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained
- § 14-113.15A — Criminal factoring of financial transaction card records
- § 14-113.16 — Presumption of criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained
- § 14-113.17 — Punishment and penalties
- § 14-113.18 — Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-113.19 — Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-113.2 — Notice defined; prima facie evidence of receipt of notice
- § 14-113.20 — Identity theft
- § 14-113.20A — Trafficking in stolen identities
- § 14-113.21 — Venue of offenses
- § 14-113.21A — Investigation of offenses
- § 14-113.22 — Punishment and liability
- § 14-113.23 — Authority of the Attorney General
- § 14-113.24 — Credit, charge, or debit card numbers on receipts
- § 14-113.25 — Sale of certain cash registers and other receipt printing machines
- § 14-113.26 — Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-113.27 — Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-113.28 — Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-113.29 — Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-113.3 — Use of credit device as prima facie evidence of knowledge
- § 14-113.30 — Definitions
- § 14-113.31 — Prohibition of falsely obtaining, selling, or soliciting telephone records
- § 14-113.32 — Exceptions
- § 14-113.33 — Punishment; liability
- § 14-113.4 — Avoiding or attempting to avoid payment for telecommunication services
- § 14-113.5 — Making, distributing, possessing, transferring, or programming device for theft of telecommunication service; publication of information regarding schemes, devices, means, or methods for such theft; concealment of existence, origin or destination of any telecommunication
- § 14-113.6 — Penalties for violation; civil action
- § 14-113.6A — Venue of offenses
- § 14-113.7 — Article not construed as repealing
- § 14-113.7A — Application of Article to financial transaction cards
- § 14-113.8 — Definitions
- § 14-113.9 — Financial transaction card theft
- § 14-114 — Fraudulent disposal of personal property on which there is a security interest
- § 14-115 — Secreting property to hinder enforcement of lien or security interest
- § 14-116 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg
- § 14-117 — Fraudulent and deceptive advertising
- § 14-117.1 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex
- § 14-117.2 — Gasoline price advertisements
- § 14-117.8 — Fraudulently renting, leasing, or advertising for sale of residential real property
- § 14-118 — Blackmailing
- § 14-118.1 — Simulation of court process in connection with collection of claim, demand or account
- § 14-118.10 — Title
- § 14-118.11 — Definitions
- § 14-118.12 — Residential mortgage fraud
- § 14-118.13 — Venue
- § 14-118.14 — Authority to investigate and prosecute
- § 14-118.15 — Penalty for violation of Article
- § 14-118.16 — Forfeiture
- § 14-118.17 — Liability for reporting suspected mortgage fraud
- § 14-118.2 — Assisting, etc
- § 14-118.3 — Acquisition and use of information obtained from patients in hospitals for fraudulent purposes
- § 14-118.4 — Extortion
- § 14-118.5 — Theft of cable television service
- § 14-118.6 — Filing false lien or encumbrance
- § 14-118.7 — Possession, transfer, or use of automated sales suppression device
- § 14-118.8 — Money laundering
- § 14-118.9 — Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-119 — Forgery of notes, checks, and other securities; counterfeiting of instruments
- § 14-12 — Punishment for violations
- § 14-12.1 — Certain subversive activities made unlawful
- § 14-12.10 — Holding meetings or demonstrations while wearing masks, hoods, etc
- § 14-12.11 — Exemptions from provisions of Article
- § 14-12.12 — Placing burning or flaming cross on property of another or on public street or highway or on any public place
- § 14-12.13 — Placing exhibit with intention of intimidating, etc
- § 14-12.14 — Placing exhibit while wearing mask, hood, or other disguise
- § 14-12.15 — Punishment for violation of Article
- § 14-12.2 — Definitions
- § 14-12.3 — Certain secret societies prohibited
- § 14-12.4 — Use of signs, grips, passwords or disguises or taking or administering oath for illegal purposes
- § 14-12.5 — Permitting, etc
- § 14-12.6 — Meeting places and meetings of secret societies regulated
- § 14-12.7 — Wearing of masks, hoods, etc
- § 14-12.8 — Wearing of masks, hoods, etc
- § 14-12.9 — Entry, etc
- § 14-120 — Uttering forged paper or instrument containing a forged endorsement
- § 14-121 — Selling of certain forged securities
- § 14-122 — Forgery of deeds, wills and certain other instruments
- § 14-122.1 — Falsifying documents issued by a secondary school, postsecondary educational institution, or governmental agency
- § 14-123 — Forging names to petitions and uttering forged petitions
- § 14-124 — Forging certificate of corporate stock and uttering forged certificates
- § 14-125 — Forgery of bank notes and other instruments by connecting genuine parts
- § 14-126 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c
- § 14-127 — Willful and wanton injury to real property
- § 14-127.1 — Graffiti vandalism
- § 14-128 — Injury to trees, crops, lands, etc
- § 14-128.1 — Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c
- § 14-129 — Taking, etc
- § 14-129.1 — Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c
- § 14-129.2 — Unlawful to take sea oats
- § 14-129.3 — Felony taking of Venus flytrap
- § 14-13 — Counterfeiting coin and uttering coin that is counterfeit
- § 14-130 — Trespass on public lands
- § 14-131 — Trespass on land under option by the federal government
- § 14-132 — Disorderly conduct in and injuries to public buildings and facilities
- § 14-132.1 — Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c
- § 14-132.2 — Willfully trespassing upon, damaging, or impeding the progress of a public school bus
- § 14-133 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg
- § 14-134 — Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c
- § 14-134.1 — Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c
- § 14-134.2 — Operating motor vehicle upon utility easements after being forbidden to do so
- § 14-134.3 — Domestic criminal trespass
- § 14-135 — Larceny of timber
- § 14-135.1 — Wood load tickets required for certain wood product sales; exceptions; penalties
- § 14-136 — Setting fire to grass and brushlands and woodlands
- § 14-137 — Willfully or negligently setting fire to woods and fields
- § 14-138 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex
- § 14-138.1 — Setting fire to grassland, brushland, or woodland
- § 14-139 — Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c
- § 14-14 — Possessing tools for counterfeiting
- § 14-140 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg
- § 14-140.1 — Certain fire to be guarded by watchman
- § 14-141 — Burning or otherwise destroying crops in the field
- § 14-142 — Injuries to dams and water channels of mills and factories
- § 14-143 — Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c
- § 14-144 — Injuring houses, churches, fences and walls
- § 14-145 — Unlawful posting of advertisements
- § 14-146 — Injuring bridges
- § 14-147 — Removing, altering or defacing landmarks
- § 14-148 — Defacing or desecrating grave sites
- § 14-149 — Desecrating, plowing over or covering up graves; desecrating human remains
- § 14-15 — Issuing substitutes for money without authority
- § 14-150 — through 14-150
- § 14-150.2 — Injuring energy facility
- § 14-150.3 — Injuring manufacturing facility
- § 14-151 — Interfering with gas, electric, and steam appliances or meters; penalties
- § 14-151.1 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2013-88, s
- § 14-152 — Repealed by Session Laws 2023-47, s
- § 14-153 — Tampering with engines and boilers
- § 14-154 — Injuring wires and other fixtures of telephone, broadband, broadcast, or cable telecommunications companies
- § 14-155 — Unauthorized connections with telephone or telegraph
- § 14-156 — Repealed by Session Laws 2023-47, s
- § 14-157 — Felling trees on telephone and electric-power wires
- § 14-158 — Interfering with telephone lines
- § 14-159 — Injuring buildings or fences; taking possession of house without consent
- § 14-159.1 — Contaminating or injuring a public water system; injuring a wastewater treatment facility
- § 14-159.10 — Enforcement of Article
- § 14-159.11 — Definition
- § 14-159.12 — First degree trespass
- § 14-159.13 — Second degree trespass
- § 14-159.14 — Lesser included offenses
- § 14-159.15 — Limited right of entry by professional land surveyors
- § 14-159.2 — Interference with animal research
- § 14-159.20 — Definitions
- § 14-159.21 — Vandalism; penalties
- § 14-159.22 — Sale of speleothems unlawful; penalties
- § 14-159.23 — Limitation of liability of owners and agents
- § 14-159.3 — Trespass to land on motorized all-terrain vehicle
- § 14-159.4 — Cutting, mutilating, defacing, or otherwise injuring property to obtain nonferrous metals
- § 14-159.5 — : Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-159.50 — Definitions
- § 14-159.51 — Requirements for removal of unauthorized persons
- § 14-159.52 — Removal of unauthorized persons
- § 14-159.53 — Appeal
- § 14-159.54 — Violation of court order
- § 14-159.55 — Immunity from liability
- § 14-159.56 — Remedy for wrongful removal
- § 14-159.6 — Trespass for purposes of hunting, etc
- § 14-159.7 — Regulations as to posting of property
- § 14-159.8 — Mutilation, etc
- § 14-159.9 — Entrance on navigable waters, etc
- § 14-16 — Receiving or passing unauthorized substitutes for money
- § 14-16.1 — : Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-16.10 — Definitions
- § 14-16.2 — : Reserved for future codification purposes