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.
- § 14-309 — Violation made criminal
- § 14-309.1 — Defense to possession; antique slot machines
- § 14-309.10 — Operation of bingo
- § 14-309.11 — Accounting and use of proceeds
- § 14-309.12 — Violation is gambling
- § 14-309.13 — Public sessions
- § 14-309.14 — Beach bingo
- § 14-309.15 — Raffles
- § 14-309.16 — through 14-309
- § 14-309.2 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2005-276, s
- § 14-309.20 — Greyhound racing prohibited
- § 14-309.25 — Definitions
- § 14-309.26 — Game nights
- § 14-309.27 — Permit procedure
- § 14-309.28 — Limits on game night events
- § 14-309.29 — Game night; prizes and costs
- § 14-309.3 — Exempt wagering
- § 14-309.30 — Operation of game night events
- § 14-309.31 — Use of proceeds
- § 14-309.32 — Violation is gambling
- § 14-309.33 — Applicability
- § 14-309.34 — Applicability to employer paid events
- § 14-309.35 — Registration, possession, and transportation of gaming equipment
- § 14-309.36 — Permit procedure for game night vendors
- § 14-309.37 — Slot machines, video gaming machines, electronic sweepstakes machines not authorized
- § 14-309.4 — Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-309.5 — Bingo
- § 14-309.6 — Definitions
- § 14-309.7 — Licensing procedure
- § 14-309.8 — Limit on sessions
- § 14-309.9 — Bingo prizes
- § 14-31 — Maliciously assaulting in a secret manner
- § 14-310 — through 14-312: Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg
- § 14-313 — Youth access to tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, and cigarette wrapping papers
- § 14-314 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-315 — Selling or giving weapons to minors
- § 14-315.1 — Storage of firearms to protect minors
- § 14-315.2 — Warning upon sale or transfer of firearm to protect minor
- § 14-316 — Permitting young children to use dangerous firearms
- § 14-316.1 — Contributing to delinquency and neglect by parents and others
- § 14-317 — Permitting minors to enter barrooms or billiard rooms
- § 14-318 — Exposing children to fire
- § 14-318.1 — Discarding or abandoning iceboxes, etc
- § 14-318.2 — Child abuse a misdemeanor
- § 14-318.3 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-318.4 — Child abuse a felony
- § 14-318.5 — Failure to report the disappearance of a child to law enforcement; immunity of person reporting in good faith
- § 14-318.6 — Failure to report crimes against juveniles; penalty
- § 14-318.7 — Exposing a child to a controlled substance
- § 14-319 — Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c
- § 14-32 — Felonious assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflicting serious injury; punishments
- § 14-32.1 — Assaults on individuals with a disability; punishments
- § 14-32.2 — Patient abuse and neglect; punishments; definitions
- § 14-32.3 — Domestic abuse, neglect, and exploitation of disabled or elder adults
- § 14-32.4 — Assault inflicting serious bodily injury; strangulation; penalties
- § 14-32.5 — Misdemeanor crime of domestic violence
- § 14-32.6 — Habitual domestic violence
- § 14-320 — Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c
- § 14-320.1 — Transporting child outside the State with intent to violate custody order
- § 14-321 — Failing to pay minors for doing certain work
- § 14-321.1 — Prohibit baby sitting service by sex offender or in the home of a sex offender
- § 14-321.2 — Prohibit unlawful transfer of custody of minor child
- § 14-322 — Abandonment and failure to support spouse and children
- § 14-322.1 — Abandonment of child or children for six months
- § 14-322.2 — Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c
- § 14-322.3 — Abandonment of an infant not more than 30 days of age
- § 14-323 — through 14-325
- § 14-325.1 — When offense of failure to support child deemed committed in State
- § 14-326 — Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c
- § 14-326.1 — Repealed by Session Laws 2025-70, s
- § 14-327 — through 14-328: Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-329 — Manufacturing, trafficking in, transporting, or possessing poisonous alcoholic beverages
- § 14-33 — Misdemeanor assaults, batteries, and affrays, simple and aggravated; punishments
- § 14-33.1 — Evidence of former threats upon plea of self-defense
- § 14-33.2 — Habitual misdemeanor assault
- § 14-330 — through 14-332
- § 14-333 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-334 — through 14-335
- § 14-336 — Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c
- § 14-337 — Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c
- § 14-338 — through 14-339
- § 14-34 — Assaulting by pointing gun
- § 14-34.1 — Discharging certain barreled weapons or a firearm into occupied property
- § 14-34.10 — Discharge firearm within enclosure to incite fear
- § 14-34.1A — Discharging certain barreled weapons or a firearm at or into certain unoccupied emergency vehicles
- § 14-34.2 — Assault with a firearm or other deadly weapon upon governmental officers or employees, company police officers, or campus police officers
- § 14-34.3 — Manufacture, sale, purchase, or possession of teflon-coated types of bullets prohibited
- § 14-34.4 — Adulterated or misbranded food, drugs, or cosmetics; intent to cause serious injury or death; intent to extort
- § 14-34.5 — Assault with a firearm on a law enforcement, probation, or parole officer, or on a member of the North Carolina National Guard, or on a person employed at a State or local detention facility
- § 14-34.6 — Assault or affray on a firefighter, an emergency medical technician, medical responder, and medical practice and hospital personnel
- § 14-34.7 — Certain assaults on a law enforcement, probation, or parole officer, or on a member of the North Carolina National Guard, or on a person employed at a State or local detention facility; penalty
- § 14-34.8 — Criminal use of laser device
- § 14-34.9 — Discharging a firearm from within an enclosure
- § 14-340 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-341 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-342 — Selling or offering to sell meat of diseased animals
- § 14-343 — Unauthorized dealing in railroad tickets
- § 14-344 — Sale of admission tickets in excess of printed price
- § 14-344.1 — (Contingent repeal, see note) Internet sale of admission tickets in excess of printed price
- § 14-344.2 — Prohibition on ticket purchasing software
- § 14-345 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Extra Session, c
- § 14-346 — Sale of convict-made goods prohibited
- § 14-346.1 — through 14-346
- § 14-347 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-348 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-349 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-35 — Hazing; definition and punishment
- § 14-350 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-351 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-352 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-353 — Influencing agents and servants in violating duties owed employers
- § 14-354 — Witness required to give self-incriminating evidence; no suit or prosecution to be founded thereon
- § 14-355 — Blacklisting employees
- § 14-356 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg
- § 14-357 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex
- § 14-357.1 — Requiring payment for medical examination, etc
- § 14-358 — Local: Violation of certain contracts between landlord and tenant
- § 14-359 — Local: Tenant neglecting crop; landlord failing to make advances; harboring or employing delinquent tenant
- § 14-36 — : Repealed by Session Laws 2003-299, § 2, effective December 1, 2003, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date
- § 14-360 — Cruelty to animals; construction of section
- § 14-360.1 — Immunity for veterinarian reporting animal cruelty
- § 14-361 — Instigating or promoting cruelty to animals
- § 14-361.1 — Abandonment of animals
- § 14-362 — Cockfighting
- § 14-362.1 — Animal fights and baiting, other than cock fights, dog fights and dog baiting
- § 14-362.2 — Dog fighting and baiting
- § 14-362.3 — Restraining dogs in a cruel manner
- § 14-363 — Conveying animals in a cruel manner
- § 14-363.1 — Living baby chicks or other fowl, or rabbits under eight weeks of age; disposing of as pets or novelties forbidden
- § 14-363.2 — Confiscation of cruelly treated animals
- § 14-363.3 — Confinement of animals in motor vehicles
- § 14-364 — Repealed by Session Laws 1945, c
- § 14-365 — Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c
- § 14-366 — Molesting or injuring livestock
- § 14-367 — Altering the brands of and misbranding another's livestock
- § 14-368 — Placing poisonous shrubs and vegetables in public places
- § 14-369 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex
- § 14-37 — Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c
- § 14-370 — Wrongfully obtaining or divulging knowledge of telephonic messages
- § 14-371 — Violating privacy of telegraphic messages; failure to transmit and deliver same promptly
- § 14-372 — Unauthorized opening, reading or publishing of sealed letters and telegrams
- § 14-373 — Bribery of players, managers, coaches, referees, umpires or officials
- § 14-374 — Acceptance of bribes by players, managers, coaches, referees, umpires or officials
- § 14-375 — Completion of offenses set out in §
- § 14-376 — Bribe defined
- § 14-377 — Intentional losing of athletic contest or limiting margin of victory or defeat
- § 14-378 — Venue
- § 14-379 — Bonus or extra compensation not forbidden
- § 14-38 — Witnesses in hazing trials; no indictment to be founded on self-criminating testimony
- § 14-380 — Repealed by Session Laws 1951, c
- § 14-380.1 — Bribery of horse show judges or officials
- § 14-380.2 — Bribery attempts to be reported
- § 14-380.3 — Bribe defined
- § 14-380.4 — Printing Article in horse show schedules
- § 14-380.5 — Horse racing not prohibited
- § 14-381 — Desecration of State and United States flag
- § 14-382 — Pollution of water on lands used for dairy purposes
- § 14-383 — Cutting timber on town watershed without disposing of boughs and debris; misdemeanor
- § 14-384 — Injuring notices and advertisements
- § 14-385 — Defacing or destroying public notices and advertisements
- § 14-386 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex
- § 14-387 — Repealed by Session Laws 1945, c
- § 14-388 — Repealed by Session Laws 1943, c
- § 14-389 — : Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg
- § 14-39 — Kidnapping
- § 14-390 — through 14-390
- § 14-391 — Usurious loans on household and kitchen furniture or assignment of wages
- § 14-392 — through 14-393: Repealed by Session Laws 1989, c
- § 14-394 — Anonymous or threatening letters, mailing or transmitting
- § 14-395 — Repealed by Session Laws 2025-20, s
- § 14-395.1 — Sexual harassment
- § 14-396 — through 14-397: Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg
- § 14-398 — Theft or destruction of property of public libraries, museums, etc
- § 14-399 — Littering
- § 14-399.1 — Repealed by Session Laws 1989, c
- § 14-399.2 — Certain plastic yoke and ring type holding devices prohibited
- § 14-399.3 — Duty to stop in event of certain spills from vehicles
- § 14-4 — Violation of local ordinances misdemeanor
- § 14-4.1 — Legislative review of regulatory crimes
- § 14-40 — Enticing minors out of the State for the purpose of employment
- § 14-400 — Tattooing; body piercing prohibited
- § 14-401 — Putting poisonous foodstuffs, antifreeze, etc
- § 14-401.1 — Misdemeanor to tamper with examination questions
- § 14-401.10 — Soliciting advertisements for official publications of law-enforcement officers' associations
- § 14-401.11 — Distribution of certain food or beverage prohibited
- § 14-401.12 — Soliciting charitable contributions by telephone
- § 14-401.13 — Failure to give right to cancel in off-premises sales
- § 14-401.14 — Ethnic intimidation; teaching any technique to be used for ethnic intimidation
- § 14-401.15 — Telephone sales recovery services
- § 14-401.16 — Contaminate food or drink to render one mentally incapacitated or physically helpless
- § 14-401.17 — Unlawful removal or destruction of electronic dog collars
- § 14-401.18 — Sale of certain packages of cigarettes prohibited
- § 14-401.18A — Sale of certain e-liquid containers prohibited
- § 14-401.19 — Filing false security agreements
- § 14-401.2 — Misdemeanor for detective to collect claims, accounts, etc
- § 14-401.20 — Defrauding drug and alcohol screening tests; penalty
- § 14-401.21 — Practicing "rebirthing technique"; penalty
- § 14-401.22 — Concealment of death; disturbing human remains; dismembering human remains
- § 14-401.23 — Unlawful manufacture, sale, delivery, or possession of Salvia divinorum
- § 14-401.24 — Unlawful possession and use of unmanned aircraft systems