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.
- § 14-227.2 — Secret listening to deliberations of grand or petit jury
- § 14-227.3 — Violation made misdemeanor
- § 14-228 — Buying and selling offices
- § 14-229 — Acting as officer before qualifying as such
- § 14-23.1 — Definition
- § 14-23.2 — Murder of an unborn child; penalty
- § 14-23.3 — Voluntary manslaughter of an unborn child; penalty
- § 14-23.4 — Involuntary manslaughter of an unborn child; penalty
- § 14-23.5 — Assault inflicting serious bodily injury on an unborn child; penalty
- § 14-23.6 — Battery on an unborn child
- § 14-23.7 — Exceptions
- § 14-23.8 — Knowledge not required
- § 14-230 — Willfully failing to discharge duties
- § 14-231 — Failing to make reports and discharge other duties
- § 14-232 — Swearing falsely to official reports
- § 14-233 — Making of false report by bank examiners; accepting bribes
- § 14-234 — Public officers or employees benefiting from public contracts; exceptions
- § 14-234.1 — Misuse of confidential information
- § 14-234.2 — Public officers or employees financially benefiting from public position
- § 14-234.3 — Local public officials participating in contracts benefiting nonprofits with which associated
- § 14-235 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex
- § 14-236 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2001-409, ss
- § 14-237 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2001-409, ss
- § 14-238 — Soliciting during school hours without permission of school head
- § 14-239 — Allowing prisoners to escape; punishment
- § 14-24 — through 14-25
- § 14-240 — District attorney to prosecute officer for escape
- § 14-241 — Disposing of public documents or refusing to deliver them over to successor
- § 14-242 — Failing to return process or making false return
- § 14-243 — Failing to surrender tax list for inspection and correction
- § 14-244 — Failing to file report of fines or penalties
- § 14-245 — Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c
- § 14-246 — Failure of ex-magistrate to turn over books, papers and money
- § 14-247 — Private use of publicly owned vehicle
- § 14-248 — Obtaining repairs and supplies for private vehicle at expense of State
- § 14-249 — Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c
- § 14-250 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2001-424, s
- § 14-251 — Violation made misdemeanor
- § 14-252 — Five preceding sections applicable to cities and towns
- § 14-253 — Failure of certain railroad officers to account with successors
- § 14-254 — Malfeasance of corporation officers and agents
- § 14-254.5 — Definitions
- § 14-255 — Escape of working prisoners from custody
- § 14-256 — Prison breach and escape from county or municipal confinement facilities or officers
- § 14-256.1 — Escape from private correctional facility
- § 14-257 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex
- § 14-258 — Providing forbidden articles or tools for escape; possessing tools for escape
- § 14-258.1 — Furnishing poison, controlled substances, deadly weapons, cartridges, ammunition or alcoholic beverages to inmates of charitable, mental or penal institutions or local confinement facilities; furnishing tobacco products including vapor products; or furnishing mobile phones to inmates or delinquent j
- § 14-258.2 — Possession of dangerous weapon in prison
- § 14-258.3 — Taking of hostage, etc
- § 14-258.4 — Malicious conduct by prisoner
- § 14-258.7 — Annual reports of violations
- § 14-259 — Harboring or aiding certain persons
- § 14-26 — through 14-27
- § 14-260 — : Recodified as § 162-55 by Session Laws 1983, c
- § 14-261 — : Recodified as § 162-56 by Session Laws 1983, c
- § 14-262 — Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c
- § 14-263 — Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c
- § 14-264 — : Recodified as § 162-57 by Session Laws 1983, c
- § 14-265 — Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c
- § 14-266 — Persuading inmates to escape
- § 14-267 — Harboring fugitives
- § 14-268 — Violation made misdemeanor
- § 14-269 — Carrying concealed weapons
- § 14-269.1 — Confiscation and disposition of deadly weapons
- § 14-269.2 — Weapons on campus or other educational property
- § 14-269.3 — Carrying weapons into assemblies and establishments where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed
- § 14-269.4 — Weapons on certain State property and in courthouses
- § 14-269.6 — Possession and sale of spring-loaded projectile knives prohibited
- § 14-269.7 — Prohibitions on handguns for minors
- § 14-269.8 — Purchase or possession of firearms by person subject to domestic violence order prohibited
- § 14-27.1 — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.10 — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.2 — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.20 — Definitions
- § 14-27.21 — First-degree forcible rape
- § 14-27.22 — Second-degree forcible rape
- § 14-27.23 — Statutory rape of a child by an adult
- § 14-27.24 — First-degree statutory rape
- § 14-27.25 — Statutory rape of person who is 15 years of age or younger
- § 14-27.26 — First-degree forcible sexual offense
- § 14-27.27 — Second-degree forcible sexual offense
- § 14-27.28 — Statutory sexual offense with a child by an adult
- § 14-27.29 — First-degree statutory sexual offense
- § 14-27.2A — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.3 — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.30 — Statutory sexual offense with a person who is 15 years of age or younger
- § 14-27.31 — Sexual activity by a substitute parent or custodian
- § 14-27.32 — Sexual activity with a student
- § 14-27.33 — Sexual battery
- § 14-27.33A — Sexual contact or penetration under pretext of medical treatment
- § 14-27.34 — No defense that victim is spouse of person committing act
- § 14-27.35 — No presumption as to incapacity
- § 14-27.36 — Evidence required in prosecutions under this Article
- § 14-27.4 — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.4A — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.5 — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.5A — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.6 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex
- § 14-27.7 — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.7A — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.8 — : Recodified as G
- § 14-27.9 — : Recodified as G
- § 14-270 — through 14-271: Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex
- § 14-272 — through 14-275: Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c
- § 14-275.1 — Disorderly conduct at bus or railroad station or airport
- § 14-276 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-276.1 — Impersonation of firemen or emergency medical services personnel
- § 14-277 — Impersonation of a law-enforcement or other public officer
- § 14-277.1 — Communicating threats
- § 14-277.2 — Weapons at parades, etc
- § 14-277.3 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2008-167, s
- § 14-277.3A — Stalking
- § 14-277.4 — Obstruction of health care facilities
- § 14-277.4A — Targeted picketing of a residence
- § 14-277.5 — Making a false report concerning mass violence on educational property
- § 14-277.6 — Communicating a threat of mass violence on educational property
- § 14-277.7 — Communicating a threat of mass violence at a place of religious worship
- § 14-277.8 — Conditional discharge for first offenders under the age of 20 years
- § 14-278 — Willful injury to property of railroads
- § 14-279 — Unlawful injury to property of railroads
- § 14-279.1 — Unlawful impairment of operation of railroads
- § 14-28 — Malicious castration
- § 14-28.1 — Female genital mutilation of a child
- § 14-280 — Shooting or throwing at trains or passengers
- § 14-280.1 — Trespassing on railroad right-of-way
- § 14-280.2 — Use of a laser device towards an aircraft
- § 14-280.3 — Interference with manned aircraft by unmanned aircraft systems
- § 14-281 — Operating trains and streetcars while intoxicated
- § 14-281.1 — Throwing, dropping, etc
- § 14-282 — Displaying false lights on seashore
- § 14-283 — Exploding dynamite cartridges and bombs
- § 14-284 — Keeping for sale or selling explosives without a license
- § 14-284.1 — Regulation of sale of explosives; reports; storage
- § 14-284.2 — Dumping of toxic substances
- § 14-285 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Extra Session, c
- § 14-286 — Giving false fire alarms; molesting fire-alarm, fire-detection or fire-extinguishing system
- § 14-286.1 — Making false ambulance request
- § 14-286.2 — Interfering with emergency communication
- § 14-287 — Leaving unused well open and exposed
- § 14-288 — Unlawful to pollute any bottles used for beverages
- § 14-288.1 — Definitions
- § 14-288.10 — Frisk of persons during violent disorders; frisk of curfew violators
- § 14-288.11 — Warrants to inspect vehicles in riot areas or approaching municipalities during emergencies
- § 14-288.12 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2012-12, s
- § 14-288.13 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2012-12, s
- § 14-288.14 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2012-12, s
- § 14-288.15 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2012-12, s
- § 14-288.16 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2012-12, s
- § 14-288.17 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2012-12, s
- § 14-288.18 — Injunction to cope with emergencies at public and private educational institutions
- § 14-288.19 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2012-12, s
- § 14-288.2 — Riot; inciting to riot; punishments
- § 14-288.20 — Certain weapons at civil disorders
- § 14-288.20A — Violation of emergency prohibitions and restrictions
- § 14-288.21 — Unlawful manufacture, assembly, possession, storage, transportation, sale, purchase, delivery, or acquisition of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; exceptions; punishment
- § 14-288.22 — Unlawful use of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; punishment
- § 14-288.23 — Making a false report concerning a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; punishment; restitution
- § 14-288.24 — Perpetrating hoax by use of false nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; punishment; restitution
- § 14-288.3 — Provisions of Article intended to supplement common law and other statutes
- § 14-288.4 — Disorderly conduct
- § 14-288.5 — Failure to disperse when commanded a misdemeanor; prima facie evidence
- § 14-288.6 — Looting; trespass during emergency
- § 14-288.7 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2012-12, s
- § 14-288.8 — Manufacture, assembly, possession, storage, transportation, sale, purchase, delivery, or acquisition of weapon of mass death and destruction; exceptions
- § 14-288.9 — Assault upon emergency personnel; punishments
- § 14-289 — Advertising lotteries
- § 14-29 — Castration or other maiming without malice aforethought
- § 14-290 — Dealing in lotteries
- § 14-291 — Selling lottery tickets and acting as agent for lotteries
- § 14-291.1 — Selling "numbers" tickets; possession prima facie evidence of violation
- § 14-291.2 — Pyramid and chain schemes prohibited
- § 14-292 — Gambling
- § 14-292.1 — Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c
- § 14-292.2 — Class III gaming on Indian lands
- § 14-293 — Allowing gambling in houses of public entertainment; penalty
- § 14-294 — Gambling with faro banks and tables
- § 14-295 — Keeping gaming tables, illegal punchboards or slot machines, or betting thereat
- § 14-296 — Illegal slot machines and punchboards defined
- § 14-297 — Allowing gaming tables, illegal punchboards or slot machines on premises
- § 14-298 — Seizure of illegal gaming items
- § 14-299 — Property exhibited by gamblers to be seized; disposition of same
- § 14-3 — Punishment of misdemeanors, infamous offenses, offenses committed in secrecy and malice, or with deceit and intent to defraud, or with ethnic animosity
- § 14-3.1 — Infraction defined; sanctions
- § 14-30 — Malicious maiming
- § 14-30.1 — Malicious throwing of corrosive acid or alkali
- § 14-300 — Opposing destruction of gaming tables and seizure of property
- § 14-301 — Operation or possession of slot machine; separate offenses
- § 14-302 — Punchboards, vending machines, and other gambling devices; separate offenses
- § 14-303 — Violation of two preceding sections a misdemeanor
- § 14-304 — Manufacture, sale, etc
- § 14-305 — Agreements with reference to slot machines or devices made unlawful
- § 14-306 — Slot machine or device defined
- § 14-306.1 — : Repealed by Session Law 2006-6, s
- § 14-306.1A — Types of machines and devices prohibited by law; penalties
- § 14-306.2 — Violation of G
- § 14-306.3 — Certain game promotions unlawful
- § 14-306.4 — Electronic machines and devices for sweepstakes prohibited
- § 14-307 — Issuance of license prohibited
- § 14-308 — Declared a public nuisance