Chapter 14 Criminal Law
Article 1 - Felonies and Misdemeanors.
- § 14-1 Felonies and misdemeanors defined
A felony is a crime which: (1) Was a felony at common law; (2) Is or may be punishable by death; (3) Is or may...
- § 14-1.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 538, s. 2
- § 14-2 Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 538, s. 2.1
- § 14-2.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 538, s. 3
- § 14-2.2 Repealed by Session Laws 2003-0378, s. 1, effective August 1, 2003
- § 14-2.3 Forfeiture of gain acquired through felonies
(a) Except as is otherwise provided in Article 3 of Chapter 31A, in the case of any violation of a general statute constituting a felony...
- § 14-2.4 Punishment for conspiracy to commit a felony
(a) Unless a different classification is expressly stated, a person who is convicted of a conspiracy to commit a felony is guilty of a felony...
- § 14-2.5 Punishment for attempt to commit a felony or misdemeanor
Unless a different classification is expressly stated, an attempt to commit a misdemeanor or a felony is punishable under the next lower classification as the...
- § 14-2.6 Punishment for solicitation to commit a felony or misdemeanor
(a) Unless a different classification is expressly stated, a person who solicits another person to commit a felony is guilty of a felony that is...
- § 14-3 Punishment of misdemeanors, infamous offenses, offenses committed in secrecy and malice, or with deceit and intent to defraud, or with ethnic animosity
(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), every person who shall be convicted of any misdemeanor for which no specific classification and no...
- § 14-3.1 Infraction defined; sanctions
(a) An infraction is a noncriminal violation of law not punishable by imprisonment. Unless otherwise provided by law, the sanction for a person found responsible...
- § 14-4 Violation of local ordinances misdemeanor
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), if any person shall violate an ordinance of a county, city, town, or metropolitan sewerage district created under...
Article 2 - Principals and Accessories.
Article 2A - Habitual Felons.
- § 14-7.1 Persons defined as habitual felons
Any person who has been convicted of or pled guilty to three felony offenses in any federal court or state court in the United States...
- § 14-7.2 Punishment
When any person is charged by indictment with the commission of a felony under the laws of the State of North Carolina and is also...
- § 14-7.3 Charge of habitual felon
An indictment which charges a person who is an habitual felon within the meaning of G.S. 14‑7.1 with the commission of any felony under the...
- § 14-7.4 Evidence of prior convictions of felony offenses
In all cases where a person is charged under the provisions of this Article with being an habitual felon, the record or records of prior...
- § 14-7.5 Verdict and judgment
When an indictment charges an habitual felon with a felony as above provided and an indictment also charges that said person is an habitual felon...
- § 14-7.6 Sentencing of habitual felons
When an habitual felon as defined in this Article commits any felony under the laws of the State of North Carolina, the felon must, upon...
Article 2B - Violent Habitual Felons.
- § 14-7.7 Persons defined as violent habitual felons
(a) Any person who has been convicted of two violent felonies in any federal court, in a court of this or any other state of...
- § 14-7.8 Punishment
When a person is charged by indictment with the commission of a violent felony and is also charged with being a violent habitual felon as...
- § 14-7.9 Charge of violent habitual felon
An indictment that charges a person who is a violent habitual felon within the meaning of G.S. 14‑7.7 with the commission of any violent felony...
- § 14-7.10 Evidence of prior convictions of violent felonies
In all cases where a person is charged under this Article with being a violent habitual felon, the records of prior convictions of violent felonies...
- § 14-7.11 Verdict and judgment
When an indictment charges a violent habitual felon with a violent felony as provided in this Article and an indictment also charges that the person...
- § 14-7.12 Sentencing of violent habitual felons
A person who is convicted of a violent felony and of being a violent habitual felon must, upon conviction (except where the death penalty is...
- § 14-7.13 through 14-7.19 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 2C - Continuing Criminal Enterprise.
- § 14-7.20 Continuing criminal enterprise
(a) Any person who engages in a continuing criminal enterprise shall be punished as a Class H felon and in addition shall be subject to...
Article 3 - Rebellion.
Article 4 - Subversive Activities.
Article 4A - Prohibited Secret Societies and Activities.
- § 14-12.2 Definitions
The terms used in this Article are defined as follows: (1) The term "secret society" shall mean any two or more persons organized, associated together,...
- § 14-12.3 Certain secret societies prohibited
It shall be unlawful for any person to join, unite himself with, become a member of, apply for membership in, form, organize, solicit members for,...
- § 14-12.4 Use of signs, grips, passwords or disguises or taking or administering oath for illegal purposes
It shall be unlawful for any person to use, agree to use, or to encourage, aid or assist in the using of any signs, grips,...
- § 14-12.5 Permitting, etc., meetings or demonstrations of prohibited secret societies
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or agree to permit any members of a secret political society or a secret military society...
- § 14-12.6 Meeting places and meetings of secret societies regulated
Every secret society which has been or is now being formed and organized within the State, and which has members within the State shall forthwith...
- § 14-12.7 Wearing of masks, hoods, etc., on public ways
No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is...
- § 14-12.8 Wearing of masks, hoods, etc., on public property
No person or persons shall in this State, while wearing any mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so as...
- § 14-12.9 Entry, etc., upon premises of another while wearing mask, hood or other disguise
No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall, while wearing a mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is...
- § 14-12.10 Holding meetings or demonstrations while wearing masks, hoods, etc
No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall while wearing a mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is...
- § 14-12.11 Exemptions from provisions of Article
The following are exempted from the provisions of G.S. 14‑ 12.7, 14‑12.8, 14‑12.9, 14‑12.10 and 14‑12.14: (1) Any person or persons wearing traditional holiday costumes...
- § 14-12.12 Placing burning or flaming cross on property of another or on public street or highway
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place or cause to be placed on the property of another in this State...
- § 14-12.13 Placing exhibit with intention of intimidating, etc., another
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place or cause to be placed anywhere in this State any exhibit of any kind...
- § 14-12.14 Placing exhibit while wearing mask, hood, or other disguise
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, while wearing a mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so...
- § 14-12.15 Punishment for violation of Article
All persons violating any of the provisions of this Article, except for G.S. 14‑12.12(b), 14‑12.13, and 14‑12.14, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor....
Article 5 - Counterferfeiting and Issuing Monetary Substitutes.
- § 14-13 Counterfeiting coin and uttering coin that is counterfeit
If any person shall falsely make, forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist...
- § 14-14 Possessing tools for counterfeiting
If any person shall have in his possession any instrument for the purpose of making any counterfeit similitude or likeness of any coin made of...
- § 14-15 Issuing substitutes for money without authority
If any person or corporation, unless the same be expressly allowed by law, shall issue any bill, due bill, order, ticket, certificate of deposit, promissory...
- § 14-16 Receiving or passing unauthorized substitutes for money
If any person or corporation shall pass or receive, as the representative of, or as the substitute for, money, any bill, check, certificate, promissory note,...
- § 14-16.1 through 14-16.5 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 5A - Endangering Executive and Legislative, and Court Officers.
- § 14-16.6 Assault on executive, legislative, or court officer
(a) Any person who assaults any legislative officer, executive officer, or court officer, or any person who makes a violent attack upon the residence, office,...
- § 14-16.7 Threats against executive, legislative, or court officers
(a) Any person who knowingly and willfully makes any threat to inflict serious bodily injury upon or to kill any legislative officer, executive officer, or...
- § 14-16.8 No requirement of receipt of the threat
In prosecutions under G.S. 14‑16.7 of this Article it shall not be necessary to prove that any legislative officer, executive officer, or court officer actually...
- § 14-16.9 Officers-elect to be covered
Any person who has been elected to any office covered by this Article but has not yet taken the oath of office shall be considered...
- § 14-16.10 Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Court officer. Magistrate, clerk of superior court, acting clerk, assistant or deputy clerk, judge, or justice of...
Article 6 - Homicide.
- § 14-17 Murder in the first and second degree defined; punishment
A murder which shall be perpetrated by means of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction as defined in G.S. 14‑288.21, poison, lying...
- § 14-17.1 Crime of suicide abolished
The common‑law crime of suicide is hereby abolished as an offense. (1973, c. 1205.)
- § 14-18 Punishment for manslaughter
Voluntary manslaughter shall be punishable as a Class D felony, and involuntary manslaughter shall be punishable as a Class F felony. (4 Hen. VII, s....
- § 14-18.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Extra Session, c. 14, s. 73
- § 14-18.2 Injury to pregnant woman
(a) Definitions. The following definitions shall apply in this section: (1) Miscarriage. The interruption of the normal development of the fetus, other than by a...
- § 14-19 Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 760, s. 5, effective July 1, 1981
- § 14-20 Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 29(1)
- § 14-21 through 14-23 Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 682, s. 7, effective January 1, 1980
Article 7 - Rape and Kindred Offenses.
Article 7A - Rape and Other Sex Offenses.
- § 14-27.1 Definitions
As used in this Article, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Mentally disabled" means (i) a victim who suffers from mental retardation, or (ii) a...
- § 14-27.2 First-degree rape
(a) A person is guilty of rape in the first degree if the person engages in vaginal intercourse: (1) With a victim who is a...
- § 14-27.3 Second-degree rape
(a) A person is guilty of rape in the second degree if the person engages in vaginal intercourse with another person: (1) By force and...
- § 14-27.4 First-degree sexual offense
(a) A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the first degree if the person engages in a sexual act: (1) With a victim...
- § 14-27.5 Second-degree sexual offense
(a) A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the second degree if the person engages in a sexual act with another person: (1)...
- § 14-27.5A Sexual battery
(a) A person is guilty of sexual battery if the person, for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, engages in sexual...
- § 14-27.6 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 71(3)
- § 14-27.7 Intercourse and sexual offenses with certain victims; consent no defense
(a) If a defendant who has assumed the position of a parent in the home of a minor victim engages in vaginal intercourse or a...
- § 14-27.7A Statutory rape or sexual offense of person who is 13, 14, or 15 years old
(a) A defendant is guilty of a Class B1 felony if the defendant engages in vaginal intercourse or a sexual act with another person who...
- § 14-27.8 No defense that victim is spouse of person committing act
A person may be prosecuted under this Article whether or not the victim is the person's legal spouse at the time of the commission of...
- § 14-27.9 No presumption as to incapacity
In prosecutions under this Article, there shall be no presumption that any person under the age of 14 years is physically incapable of committing a...
- § 14-27.10 Evidence required in prosecutions under this Article
It shall not be necessary upon the trial of any indictment for an offense under this Article where the sex act alleged is vaginal intercourse...
Article 8 - Assaults.
- § 14-28 Malicious castration
If any person, of malice aforethought, shall unlawfully castrate any other person, or cut off, maim or disfigure any of the privy members of any...
- § 14-29 Castration or other maiming without malice aforethought
If any person shall, on purpose and unlawfully, but without malice aforethought, cut, or slit the nose, bite or cut off the nose, or a...
- § 14-30 Malicious maiming
If any person shall, of malice aforethought, unlawfully cut out or disable the tongue or put out an eye of any other person, with intent...
- § 14-30.1 Malicious throwing of corrosive acid or alkali
If any person shall, of malice aforethought, knowingly and willfully throw or cause to be thrown upon another person any corrosive acid or alkali with...
- § 14-31 Maliciously assaulting in a secret manner
If any person shall in a secret manner maliciously commit an assault and battery with any deadly weapon upon another by waylaying or otherwise, with...
- § 14-32 Felonious assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflicting serious injury; punishments
(a) Any person who assaults another person with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicts serious injury shall be punished as a Class...
- § 14-32.1 Assaults on handicapped persons; punishments
(a) For purposes of this section, a "handicapped person" is a person who has: (1) A physical or mental disability, such as decreased use of...
- § 14-32.2 Patient abuse and neglect; punishments
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to physically abuse a patient of a health care facility or a resident of a residential care...
- § 14-32.3 Domestic abuse, neglect, and exploitation of disabled or elder adults
(a) Abuse. A person is guilty of abuse if that person is a caretaker of a disabled or elder adult who is residing in a...
- § 14-32.4 Assault inflicting serious bodily injury; strangulation; penalties
(a) Unless the conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any person who assaults another person and inflicts serious bodily...
- § 14-33 Misdemeanor assaults, batteries, and affrays, simple and aggravated; punishments
(a) Any person who commits a simple assault or a simple assault and battery or participates in a simple affray is guilty of a Class...
- § 14-33.1 Evidence of former threats upon plea of self-defense
In any case of assault, assault and battery, or affray in which the plea of the defendant is self‑defense, evidence of former threats against the...
- § 14-33.2 Habitual misdemeanor assault
A person commits the offense of habitual misdemeanor assault if that person violates any of the provisions of G.S. 14‑33 and causes physical injury, or...
- § 14-34 Assaulting by pointing gun
If any person shall point any gun or pistol at any person, either in fun or otherwise, whether such gun or pistol be loaded or...
- § 14-34.1 Discharging certain barreled weapons or a firearm into occupied property
(a) Any person who willfully or wantonly discharges or attempts to discharge any firearm or barreled weapon capable of discharging shot, bullets, pellets, or other...
- § 14-34.2 Assault with a firearm or other deadly weapon upon governmental officers or employees, company police officers, or campus police officers
Unless a person's conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any person who commits an assault with a firearm or...
- § 14-34.3 Manufacture, sale, purchase, or possession of teflon-coated types of bullets prohibited
(a) It is unlawful for any person to import, manufacture, possess, store, transport, sell, offer to sell, purchase, offer to purchase, deliver or give to...
- § 14-34.4 Adulterated or misbranded food, drugs, or cosmetics; intent to cause serious injury or death; intent to extort
(a) Any person who with the intent to cause serious injury or death manufactures, sells, delivers, offers, or holds for sale, any food, drug, or...
- § 14-34.5 Assault with a firearm on a law enforcement, probation, or parole officer or on a person employed at a State or local detention facility
(a) Any person who commits an assault with a firearm upon a law enforcement officer, probation officer, or parole officer while the officer is in...
- § 14-34.6 (See editor's note) Assault or affray on a firefighter, an emergency medical technician, medical responder, emergency department nurse, or emergency department physician
(a) A person is guilty of a Class A1 misdemeanor if the person commits an assault or an affray on any of the following persons...
- § 14-34.7 Assault inflicting serious injury on a law enforcement, probation, or parole officer or on a person employed at a State or local detention facility
(a) Unless covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, a person is guilty of a Class F felony if the person assaults...
- § 14-34.8 Criminal use of laser device
(a) For purposes of this section, the term "laser" means light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. (b) It is unlawful intentionally to point a...
Article 9 - Hazing.
Article 10 - Kidnapping and Abduction.
- § 14-39 Kidnapping
(a) Any person who shall unlawfully confine, restrain, or remove from one place to another, any other person 16 years of age or over without...
- § 14-40 Enticing minors out of the State for the purpose of employment
If any person shall employ and carry beyond the limits of this State any minor, or shall induce any minor to go beyond the limits...
- § 14-41 Abduction of children
(a) Any person who, without legal justification or defense, abducts or induces any minor child who is at least four years younger than the person...
- § 14-42 Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 539, s. 1358.2
- § 14-43 Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 29(2)
- § 14-43.1 Unlawful arrest by officers from other states
A law‑enforcement officer of a state other than North Carolina who, knowing that he is in the State of North Carolina and purporting to act...
- § 14-43.2 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-247, s. 20(a), effective December 1, 2006, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date
- § 14-43.3 Felonious restraint
A person commits the offense of felonious restraint if he unlawfully restrains another person without that person's consent, or the consent of the person's parent...
Article 10A - Human Trafficking.
- § 14-43.10 Definitions
(a) Definitions. The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Coercion. The term includes all of the following: a. Causing or threatening to cause bodily...
- § 14-43.11 Human trafficking
(a) A person commits the offense of human trafficking when that person knowingly recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means another person...
- § 14-43.12 Involuntary servitude
(a) A person commits the offense of involuntary servitude when that person knowingly and willfully holds another in involuntary servitude. (b) A person who violates...
- § 14-43.13 Sexual servitude
(a) A person commits the offense of sexual servitude when that person knowingly subjects or maintains another in sexual servitude. (b) A person who violates...
Article 11 - Abortion and Kindred Offenses.
- § 14-44 Using drugs or instruments to destroy unborn child
If any person shall willfully administer to any woman, either pregnant or quick with child, or prescribe for any such woman, or advise or procure...
- § 14-45 Using drugs or instruments to produce miscarriage or injure pregnant woman
If any person shall administer to any pregnant woman, or prescribe for any such woman, or advise and procure such woman to take any medicine,...
- § 14-45.1 When abortion not unlawful
(a) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of G.S. 14‑44 and 14‑45, it shall not be unlawful, during the first 20 weeks of a woman's pregnancy,...
- § 14-46 Concealing birth of child
If any person shall, by secretly burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of a newborn child, endeavor to conceal the birth of such...
Article 12 - Libel and Slander.
Article 13 - Malicious Injury or Damage by Use of Explosive or Incendiary Device or Material.
- § 14-49 Malicious use of explosive or incendiary; punishment
(a) Any person who willfully and maliciously injures another by the use of any explosive or incendiary device or material is guilty of a Class...
- § 14-49.1 Malicious damage of occupied property by use of explosive or incendiary; punishment
Any person who willfully and maliciously damages any real or personal property of any kind or nature, being at the time occupied by another, by...
- § 14-50 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 71(4)
- § 14-50.1 Explosive or incendiary device or material defined
As used in this Article, "explosive or incendiary device or material" means nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, other high explosive, incendiary bomb or grenade, other destructive incendiary...
Article 14 - Burglary and Other Housebreakings.
- § 14-51 First and second degree burglary
There shall be two degrees in the crime of burglary as defined at the common law. If the crime be committed in a dwelling house,...
- § 14-51.1 Use of deadly physical force against an intruder
(a) A lawful occupant within a home or other place of residence is justified in using any degree of force that the occupant reasonably believes...
- § 14-52 Punishment for burglary
Burglary in the first degree shall be punishable as a Class D felony, and burglary in the second degree shall be punishable as a Class...
- § 14-53 Breaking out of dwelling house burglary
If any person shall enter the dwelling house of another with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein, or being in such dwelling house,...
- § 14-54 Breaking or entering buildings generally
(a) Any person who breaks or enters any building with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein shall be punished as a Class H...
- § 14-54.1 Breaking or entering a building that is a place of religious worship
(a) Any person who wrongfully breaks or enters any building that is a place of religious worship with intent to commit any felony or larceny...
- § 14-55 Preparation to commit burglary or other housebreakings
If any person shall be found armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon, with the intent to break or enter a dwelling, or other building...
- § 14-56 Breaking or entering into or breaking out of railroad cars, motor vehicles, trailers, aircraft, boats, or other watercraft
If any person, with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein, breaks or enters any railroad car, motor vehicle, trailer, aircraft, boat, or other...
- § 14-56.1 Breaking into or forcibly opening coin- or currency-operated machines
Any person who forcibly breaks into, or by the unauthorized use of a key or other instrument opens, any coin‑ or currency‑operated machine with intent...
- § 14-56.2 Damaging or destroying coin- or currency-operated machines
Any person who shall willfully and maliciously damage or destroy any coin‑ or currency‑operated machine shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The term...
- § 14-56.3 Breaking into paper currency machines
Any person, who with intent to steal any moneys therein forcibly breaks into any vending or dispensing machine or device which is operated or activated...
- § 14-56.4 Preparation to commit breaking or entering into motor vehicles
(a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Manipulative key" means a key, device or instrument, other than a key that is designed to operate a...
- § 14-57 Burglary with explosives
Any person who, with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein, breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited...
Article 15 - Arson and Other Burnings.
- § 14-58 Punishment for arson
There shall be two degrees of arson as defined at the common law. If the dwelling burned was occupied at the time of the burning,...
- § 14-58.2 Burning of mobile home, manufactured-type house or recreational trailer home
If any person shall willfully and maliciously burn any mobile home or manufactured‑type house or recreational trailer home which is the dwelling house of another...
- § 14-59 Burning of certain public buildings
If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
- § 14-60 Burning of schoolhouses or buildings of educational institutions
If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
- § 14-61 Burning of certain bridges and buildings
If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
- § 14-62 Burning of certain buildings
If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
- § 14-62.1 Burning of building or structure in process of construction
If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
- § 14-62.2 Burning of churches and certain other religious buildings
If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of...
- § 14-63 Burning of boats and barges
If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
- § 14-64 Burning of ginhouses and tobacco houses
If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
- § 14-65 Fraudulently setting fire to dwelling houses
If any person, being the occupant of any building used as a dwelling house, whether such person be the owner thereof or not, or, being...
- § 14-66 Burning of personal property
If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn, or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of,...
- § 14-67 Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 539, s. 1358.2
- § 14-67.1 Burning other buildings
If any person shall wantonly and willfully set fire to or burn or cause to be burned or aid, counsel or procure the burning of...
- § 14-68 Failure of owner of property to comply with orders of public authorities
If the owner or occupant of any building or premises shall fail to comply with the duly authorized orders of the chief of the fire...
- § 14-69 Failure of officers to investigate incendiary fires
If any town or city officer shall fail, neglect or refuse to comply with any of the requirements of the law in regard to the...
- § 14-69.1 Making a false report concerning destructive device
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, any person who, by any means of communication to any person or group of persons,...
- § 14-69.2 Perpetrating hoax by use of false bomb or other device
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, any person who, with intent to perpetrate a hoax, conceals, places, or displays any device,...
- § 14-69.3 Arson or other unlawful burning that results in serious injury to a firefighter or emergency medical technician
A person is guilty of a Class E felony if the person commits a felony under Article 15 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes...
Article 16 - Larceny.
- § 14-70 Distinctions between grand and petit larceny abolished; punishment; accessories to larceny
All distinctions between petit and grand larceny are abolished. Unless otherwise provided by statute, larceny is a Class H felony and is subject to the...
- § 14-71 Receiving stolen goods; receiving or possessing goods represented as stolen
(a) If any person shall receive any chattel, property, money, valuable security or other thing whatsoever, the stealing or taking whereof amounts to larceny or...
- § 14-71.1 Possessing stolen goods
If any person shall possess any chattel, property, money, valuable security or other thing whatsoever, the stealing or taking whereof amounts to larceny or a...
- § 14-72 Larceny of property; receiving stolen goods or possessing stolen goods
(a) Larceny of goods of the value of more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) is a Class H felony. The receiving or possessing of stolen...
- § 14-72.1 Concealment of merchandise in mercantile establishments
(a) Whoever, without authority, willfully conceals the goods or merchandise of any store, not theretofore purchased by such person, while still upon the premises of...
- § 14-72.2 Unauthorized use of a motor-propelled conveyance
(a) A person is guilty of an offense under this section if, without the express or implied consent of the owner or person in lawful...
- § 14-72.3 Removal of shopping cart from shopping premises
(a) As used in this section: (1) "Shopping cart" means the type of push cart commonly provided by grocery stores, drugstores, and other retail stores...
- § 14-72.4 Unauthorized taking or sale of labeled dairy milk cases or milk crates bearing the name or label of owner
(a) A person is guilty of the unauthorized taking or sale of a dairy milk case or milk crate on or after January 1, 1990,...
- § 14-72.5 Larceny of motor fuel
(a) If any person shall take and carry away motor fuel valued at less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) from an establishment where motor fuel...
- § 14-72.6 Felonious larceny, possession, or receiving of stolen goods from a permitted construction site
(a) A person is guilty of a Class I felony if he commits any of the following offenses, where the goods are valued in excess...
- § 14-72.7 Chop shop activity
(a) A person is guilty of a Class H felony if that person knowingly engages in any of the following activities, without regard to the...
- § 14-72.11 Larceny from a merchant
A person is guilty of a Class H felony if the person commits larceny against a merchant under any of the following circumstances: (1) If...
- § 14-73 Jurisdiction of the superior courts in cases of larceny and receiving stolen goods
The superior courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the trial of all cases of the larceny of property, or the receiving of stolen goods knowing...
- § 14-73.1 Petty misdemeanors
The offenses of larceny and the receiving of stolen goods knowing the same to have been stolen, which are made misdemeanors by Article 16, Subchapter...
- § 14-74 Larceny by servants and other employees
If any servant or other employee, to whom any money, goods or other chattels, or any of the articles, securities or choses in action mentioned...
- § 14-75 Larceny of chose in action
If any person shall feloniously steal, take and carry away, or take by robbery, any bank note, check or other order for the payment of...
- § 14-75.1 Larceny of secret technical processes
Any person who steals property consisting of a sample, culture, microorganism, specimen, record, recording, document, drawing, or any other article, material, device, or substance which...
- § 14-76 Larceny, mutilation, or destruction of public records and papers
If any person shall steal, or for any fraudulent purpose shall take from its place of deposit for the time being, or from any person...
- § 14-76.1 Mutilation or defacement of records and papers in the North Carolina State Archives
If any person shall willfully or maliciously obliterate, injure, deface, or alter any record or paper in the custody of the North Carolina State Archives...
- § 14-77 Larceny, concealment or destruction of wills
If any person, either during the life of the testator or after his death, shall steal or, for any fraudulent purpose, shall destroy or conceal...
- § 14-78 Larceny of ungathered crops
If any person shall steal or feloniously take and carry away any maize, corn, wheat, rice or other grain, or any cotton, tobacco, potatoes, peanuts,...
- § 14-78.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(1)
- § 14-79 Larceny of ginseng
If any person shall take and carry away, or shall aid in taking or carrying away, any ginseng growing upon the lands of another person,...
- § 14-79.1 Larceny of pine needles or pine straw
If any person shall take and carry away, or shall aid in taking or carrying away, any pine needles or pine straw being produced on...
- § 14-80 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(2)
- § 14-81 Larceny of horses, mules, swine, cattle, or dogs
(a) Larceny of horses, mules, swine, or cattle is a Class H felony. (a1) Larceny of a dog is a Class I felony. (b) In...
- § 14-82 Taking horses, mules, or dogs for temporary purposes
If any person shall unlawfully take and carry away any horse, gelding, mare, mule, or dog, the property of another person, secretly and against the...
- § 14-83 Repealed by Session Laws 1943, c. 543
- § 14-84 Animals subject to larceny
All common‑law distinctions among animals with respect to their being subject to larceny are abolished. Any animal that is in a person's possession is the...
- § 14-85 Pursuing or injuring livestock with intent to steal
If any person shall pursue, kill or wound any horse, mule, ass, jennet, cattle, hog, sheep or goat, the property of another, with the intent...
- § 14-86 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(3)
- § 14-86.1 Seizure and forfeiture of conveyances used in committing larceny and similar crimes
(a) All conveyances, including vehicles, watercraft or aircraft, used to unlawfully conceal, convey or transport property in violation of G.S. 14‑71, 14‑71.1, or 20‑106, or...
Article 16A - Organized Retail Theft.
- § 14-86.5 Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) "Retail property." Any new article, product, commodity, item, or component intended to be sold in retail commerce....
- § 14-86.6 Organized retail theft
(a) A person is guilty of a Class H felony if the person: (1) Conspires with another person to commit theft of retail property from...
Article 17 - Robbery.
- § 14-87 Robbery with firearms or other dangerous weapons
(a) Any person or persons who, having in possession or with the use or threatened use of any firearms or other dangerous weapon, implement or...
- § 14-87.1 Punishment for common-law robbery
Robbery as defined at common law, other than robbery with a firearm or other dangerous weapon as defined by G.S. 14‑87, shall be punishable as...
- § 14-88 Train robbery
If any person shall enter upon any locomotive engine or car on any railroad in this State, and by threats, the exhibition of deadly weapons...
- § 14-89 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 71(5)
- § 14-89.1 Safecracking
(a) A person is guilty of safecracking if he unlawfully opens, enters, or attempts to open or enter a safe or vault : (1) By...
Article 18 - Embezzlement.
- § 14-90 Embezzlement of property received by virtue of office or employment
If any person exercising a public trust or holding a public office, or any guardian, administrator, executor, trustee, or any receiver, or any other fiduciary,...
- § 14-91 Embezzlement of State property by public officers and employees
If any officer, agent, or employee of the State, or other person having or holding in trust for the same any bonds issued by the...
- § 14-92 Embezzlement of funds by public officers and trustees
If an officer, agent, or employee of an entity listed below, or a person having or holding money or property in trust for one of...
- § 14-93 Embezzlement by treasurers of charitable and religious organizations
If any treasurer or other financial officer of any benevolent or religious institution, society or congregation shall lend any of the moneys coming into his...
- § 14-94 Embezzlement by officers of railroad companies
If any president, secretary, treasurer, director, engineer, agent or other officer of any railroad company shall embezzle any moneys, bonds or other valuable funds or...
- § 14-95 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 71(6)
- § 14-96 through 14-96.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 1054, s. 6
- § 14-97 Appropriation of partnership funds by partner to personal use
Any person engaged in a partnership business in the State of North Carolina who shall, without the knowledge and consent of his copartner or copartners,...
- § 14-98 Embezzlement by surviving partner
If any surviving partner shall willfully and intentionally convert any of the property, money or effects belonging to the partnership to his own use, and...
- § 14-99 Embezzlement of taxes by officers
If any officer appropriates to his own use the State, county, school, city or town taxes, he shall be guilty of embezzlement, and shall be...
Article 19 - False Pretenses and Cheats.
- § 14-100 Obtaining property by false pretenses
(a) If any person shall knowingly and designedly by means of any kind of false pretense whatsoever, whether the false pretense is of a past...
- § 14-100.1 Possession or manufacture of certain fraudulent forms of identification
(a) Except as otherwise made unlawful by G.S. 20‑30, it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly possess or manufacture a false or fraudulent...
- § 14-101 Obtaining signatures by false pretenses
If any person, with intent to defraud or cheat another, shall designedly, by color of any false token or writing, or by any other false...
- § 14-102 Obtaining property by false representation of pedigree of animals
If any person shall, with intent to defraud or cheat, knowingly represent any animal for breeding purposes as being of greater degree of any particular...
- § 14-103 Obtaining certificate of registration of animals by false representation
If any person shall, by any false representation or pretense, with intent to defraud or cheat, obtain from any club, association, society or company for...
- § 14-104 Obtaining advances under promise to work and pay for same
If any person, with intent to cheat or defraud another, shall obtain any advances in money, provisions, goods, wares or merchandise of any description from...
- § 14-105 Obtaining advances under written promise to pay therefor out of designated property
If any person shall obtain any advances in money, provisions, goods, wares or merchandise of any description from any other person or corporation, upon any...
- § 14-106 Obtaining property in return for worthless check, draft or order
Every person who, with intent to cheat and defraud another, shall obtain money, credit, goods, wares or any other thing of value by means of...
- § 14-107 Worthless checks
(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, to draw, make, utter or issue and deliver to another, any check or draft on...
- § 14-107.1 Prima facie evidence in worthless check cases
(a) Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply in this section: (1) Check Passer. A natural person who draws, makes, utters, or issues...
- § 14-107.2 Program for collection in worthless check cases
(a) As used in this section, the terms "check passer" and "check taker" have the same meaning as defined in G.S. 14‑107.1. (a1) The Administrative...
- § 14-108 Obtaining property or services from slot machines, etc., by false coins or tokens
Any person who shall operate, or cause to be operated, or who shall attempt to operate, or attempt to cause to be operated any automatic...
- § 14-109 Manufacture, sale, or gift of devices for cheating slot machines, etc
Any person who, with intent to cheat or defraud the owner, lessee, licensee or other person entitled to the contents of any automatic vending machine,...
- § 14-110 Defrauding innkeeper or campground owner
No person shall, with intent to defraud, obtain food, lodging, or other accommodations at a hotel, inn, boardinghouse, eating house, or campground. Whoever violates this...
- § 14-111 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(4)
- § 14-111.1 Obtaining ambulance services without intending to pay therefor - Buncombe, Haywood and Madison Counties
Any person who with the intent to defraud shall obtain ambulance services for himself or other persons without intending at the time of obtaining such...
- § 14-111.2 Obtaining ambulance services without intending to pay therefor - certain named counties
Any person who with intent to defraud shall obtain ambulance services without intending at the time of obtaining such services to pay, if financially able,...
- § 14-111.3 Making unneeded ambulance request in certain counties
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to willfully obtain or attempt to obtain ambulance service that is not needed, or to make...
- § 14-111.4 Misuse of 911 system
It is unlawful for an individual who is not seeking public safety assistance, is not providing 911 service, or is not responding to a 911...
- § 14-112 Obtaining merchandise on approval
If any person, with intent to cheat and defraud, shall solicit and obtain from any merchant any article of merchandise on approval, and shall thereafter,...
- § 14-112.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1967, c. 1088, s. 2
- § 14-112.2 Exploitation of an elder adult or disabled adult
(a) The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Disabled adult. A person 18 years of age or older or a lawfully emancipated minor who...
- § 14-113 Obtaining money by false representation of physical defect
It shall be unlawful for any person to falsely represent himself or herself in any manner whatsoever as blind, deaf, dumb, or crippled or otherwise...
Article 19A - Obtaining Property or Services by False or Fraudulent Use of Credit Device or Other Means.
- § 14-113.1 Use of false or counterfeit credit device; unauthorized use of another's credit device; use after notice of revocation
It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to obtain or attempt to obtain credit, or to purchase or attempt to purchase any goods, property...
- § 14-113.2 Notice defined; prima facie evidence of receipt of notice
The word "notice" as used in G.S. 14‑113.1 shall be construed to include either notice given in person or notice given in writing to the...
- § 14-113.3 Use of credit device as prima facie evidence of knowledge
The presentation or use of a revoked, false, fictitious or counterfeit telephone number, credit number, or other credit device for the purpose of obtaining credit...
- § 14-113.4 Avoiding or attempting to avoid payment for telecommunication services
It shall be unlawful for any person to avoid or attempt to avoid, or to cause another to avoid, the lawful charges, in whole or...
- § 14-113.6 Penalties for violation; civil action
(a) Any person violating any of the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. However, if the offense is a...
- § 14-113.6A Venue of offenses
(a) Any of the offenses described in Article 19A which involve the placement of telephone calls may be deemed to have been committed at either...
- § 14-113.7 Article not construed as repealing § 14-100
This Article shall not be construed as repealing G.S. 14‑ 100. (1961, c. 223, s. 6; 1065, c. 1147.)
- § 14-113.7A Application of Article to credit cards
This Article shall not be construed as being applicable to any credit card as the term is defined in G.S. 14‑113.8. (1967, c. 1244, s.
Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act.
- § 14-113.8 Definitions
The following words and phrases as used in this Chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:...
- § 14-113.9 Financial transaction card theft
(a) A person is guilty of financial transaction card theft when the person does any of the following: (1) Takes, obtains or withholds a financial...
- § 14-113.10 Prima facie evidence of theft
When a person has in his possession or under his control financial transaction cards issued in the names of two or more other persons other...
- § 14-113.11 Forgery of financial transaction card
(a) A person is guilty of financial transaction card forgery when: (1) With intent to defraud a purported issuer, a person or organization providing money,...
- § 14-113.12 Prima facie evidence of forgery
(a) When a person, other than the purported issuer, possesses two or more financial transaction cards which are falsely made or falsely embossed, such possession...
- § 14-113.13 Financial transaction card fraud
(a) A person is guilty of financial transaction card fraud when, with intent to defraud the issuer, a person or organization providing money, goods, services...
- § 14-113.14 Criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices
(a) A person is guilty of criminal possession of financial transaction card forgery devices when: (1) He is a person other than the cardholder and...
- § 14-113.15 Criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained
A person is guilty of criminally receiving goods and services fraudulently obtained when he receives money, goods, services or anything else of value obtained in...
- § 14-113.15A Criminal factoring of financial transaction card records
Any person who, without the acquirer's express authorization, employs or solicits an authorized merchant, or any agent or employee of such merchant, to remit to...
- § 14-113.16 Presumption of criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained
A person who obtains at a discount price a ticket issued by an airline, railroad, steamship or other transportation company from other than an authorized...
- § 14-113.17 Punishment and penalties
(a) A person who is subject to the punishment and penalties of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (b) A crime...
- § 14-113.18 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-113.19 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 19C - Identity Fraud.
- § 14-113.20 Identity theft
(a) A person who knowingly obtains, possesses, or uses identifying information of another person, living or dead, with the intent to fraudulently represent that the...
- § 14-113.20A Trafficking in stolen identities
(a) It is unlawful for a person to sell, transfer, or purchase the identifying information of another person with the intent to commit identity theft,...
- § 14-113.21 Venue of offenses
In any criminal proceeding brought under G.S. 14‑113.20, the crime is considered to be committed in the county where the victim resides, where the perpetrator...
- § 14-113.21A Investigation of offenses
(a) A person who has learned or reasonably suspects that the person has been the victim of identity theft may contact the local law enforcement...
- § 14-113.22 Punishment and liability
(a) A violation of G.S.14‑113.20(a) is punishable as a Class G felony, except it is punishable as a Class F felony if: (i) the victim...
- § 14-113.23 Authority of the Attorney General
The Attorney General may investigate any complaint regarding identity theft under this Article. In conducting these investigations, the Attorney General has all the investigative powers...
- § 14-113.24 Credit, charge, or debit card numbers on receipts
(a) For purposes of this section, the word "person" means the person that owns or leases the cash register or other machine or device that...
- § 14-113.25 Sale of certain cash registers and other receipt printing machines
(a) No person shall sell or offer to sell a cash register or other machine or device that electronically prints receipts of credit, charge, or...
Article 19D - Telephone Records Privacy Protection Act.
- § 14-113.30 Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Caller identification record. A record collected and retained by or on behalf of a customer utilizing caller...
- § 14-113.31 Prohibition of falsely obtaining, selling, or soliciting telephone records
(a) No person shall obtain, or attempt to obtain, by any means, whether electronically, in writing, or in oral form, with or without consideration, a...
- § 14-113.32 Exceptions
(a) The provisions of G.S. 14‑113.31 shall not apply to any of the following: (1) Any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a...
- § 14-113.33 Punishment; liability
(a) Unless the conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any person who violates this Article is guilty of a...
Article 20 - Frauds.
- § 14-114 Fraudulent disposal of personal property on which there is a security interest
(a) If any person, after executing a security agreement on personal property for a lawful purpose, shall make any disposition of any property embraced in...
- § 14-115 Secreting property to hinder enforcement of lien or security interest
Any person who, with intent to prevent or hinder the enforcement of a lien or security interest after a judgment or order has been issued...
- § 14-116 Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(1)
- § 14-117 Fraudulent and deceptive advertising
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, with intent to sell or in anywise to dispose of merchandise, securities, service or...
- § 14-117.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(5)
- § 14-117.2 Gasoline price advertisements
(a) Advertisements by any person or firm of the price of any grade of motor fuel must clearly so indicate if such price is dependent...
- § 14-118 Blackmailing
If any person shall knowingly send or deliver any letter or writing demanding of any other person, with menaces and without any reasonable or probable...
- § 14-118.1 Simulation of court process in connection with collection of claim, demand or account
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, association, agent or employee in any manner to coerce, intimidate, or attempt to coerce or intimidate...
- § 14-118.2 Assisting, etc., in obtaining academic credit by fraudulent means
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to assist any student, or advertise, offer or attempt to assist any student,...
- § 14-118.3 Acquisition and use of information obtained from patients in hospitals for fraudulent purposes
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, or any officer, agent or other representative of any person, firm or corporation to obtain...
- § 14-118.4 Extortion
Any person who threatens or communicates a threat or threats to another with the intention thereby wrongfully to obtain anything of value or any acquittance,...
- § 14-118.5 Theft of cable television service
(a) Any person, firm or corporation who, after October 1, 1984, knowingly and willfully attaches or maintains an electronic, mechanical or other connection to any...
Article 20A - Residential Mortgage Fraud Act.
- § 14-118.10 Title
This Article shall be known and cited as the "Residential Mortgage Fraud Act." (2007‑163, s. 1.)
- § 14-118.11 Definitions
Unless otherwise provided in this Article, the following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Mortgage lending process. The process through which a person seeks or...
- § 14-118.12 Residential mortgage fraud
(a) A person is guilty of residential mortgage fraud when, for financial gain and with the intent to defraud, that person does any of the...
- § 14-118.13 Venue
In any criminal proceeding brought under this Article, the crime shall be construed to have been committed: (1) In the county in which the residential...
- § 14-118.14 Authority to investigate and prosecute
Upon its own investigation or upon referral by the Office of the Commissioner of Banks, the North Carolina Real Estate Commission, the Attorney General, the...
- § 14-118.15 Penalty for violation of Article
(a) Unless the conduct is prohibited by some other provision of law providing for greater punishment, a violation of this Article involving a single mortgage...
- § 14-118.16 Forfeiture
(a) All real and personal property of every kind used or intended for use in the course of, derived from, or realized through a violation...
- § 14-118.17 Liability for reporting suspected mortgage fraud
In the absence of fraud, bad faith, or malice, a person shall not be subject to an action for civil liability for filing reports or...
Article 21 - Forgery.
- § 14-119 Forgery of notes, checks, and other securities; counterfeiting of instruments
(a) It is unlawful for any person to forge or counterfeit any instrument, or possess any counterfeit instrument, with the intent to injure or defraud...
- § 14-120 Uttering forged paper or instrument containing a forged endorsement
If any person, directly or indirectly, whether for the sake of gain or with intent to defraud or injure any other person, shall utter or...
- § 14-121 Selling of certain forged securities
If any person shall sell, by delivery, endorsement or otherwise, to any other person, any judgment for the recovery of money purporting to have been...
- § 14-122 Forgery of deeds, wills and certain other instruments
If any person, of his own head and imagination, or by false conspiracy or fraud with others, shall wittingly and falsely forge and make, or...
- § 14-122.1 Falsifying documents issued by a secondary school, postsecondary educational institution, or governmental agency
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly and willfully: (1) To make falsely or alter falsely, or to procure to be made falsely...
- § 14-123 Forging names to petitions and uttering forged petitions
If any person shall willfully sign, or cause to be signed, or willfully assent to the signing of the name of any person without his...
- § 14-124 Forging certificate of corporate stock and uttering forged certificates
If any officer or agent of a corporation shall, falsely and with a fraudulent purpose, make, with the intent that the same shall be issued...
- § 14-125 Forgery of bank notes and other instruments by connecting genuine parts
If any person shall fraudulently connect together different parts of two or more bank notes, or other genuine instruments, in such a manner as to...
Article 22 - Damages and Other Offenses to Land and Fixtures.
- § 14-126 Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 700, s. 2
- § 14-127 Willful and wanton injury to real property
If any person shall willfully and wantonly damage, injure or destroy any real property whatsoever, either of a public or private nature, he shall be...
- § 14-128 Injury to trees, crops, lands, etc., of another
Any person, not being on his own lands, who shall without the consent of the owner thereof, willfully commit any damage, injury, or spoliation to...
- § 14-128.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 964, s. 2
- § 14-129 Taking, etc., of certain wild plants from land of another
No person, firm or corporation shall dig up, pull up or take from the land of another or from any public domain, the whole or...
- § 14-129.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 964, s. 2
- § 14-129.2 Unlawful to take sea oats
(a) It is unlawful to dig up, pull up, or take from the land of another or from any public domain the whole or any...
- § 14-130 Trespass on public lands
If any person shall erect a building on any state‑owned lands, or cultivate or remove timber from any such lands, without the permission of the...
- § 14-131 Trespass on land under option by the federal government
On lands under option which have formally or informally been offered to and accepted by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources by...
- § 14-132 Disorderly conduct in and injuries to public buildings and facilities
(a) It is a misdemeanor if any person shall: (1) Make any rude or riotous noise, or be guilty of any disorderly conduct, in or...
- § 14-132.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 700, s. 2
- § 14-132.2 Willfully trespassing upon, damaging, or impeding the progress of a public school bus
(a) Any person who shall unlawfully and willfully demolish, destroy, deface, injure, burn or damage any public school bus or public school activity bus shall...
- § 14-133 Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(2)
- § 14-134 Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 700, s. 2
- § 14-134.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 887, s. 2
- § 14-134.2 Operating motor vehicle upon utility easements after being forbidden to do so
If any person, without permission, shall ride, drive or operate a minibike, motorbike, motorcycle, jeep, dune buggy, automobile, truck or any other motor vehicle, other...
- § 14-134.3 Domestic criminal trespass
(a) Any person who enters after being forbidden to do so or remains after being ordered to leave by the lawful occupant, upon the premises...
- § 14-135 Cutting, injuring, or removing another's timber
If any person not being the bona fide owner thereof, shall knowingly and willfully cut down, injure or remove any standing, growing or fallen tree...
- § 14-136 Setting fire to grass and brushlands and woodlands
If any person shall intentionally set fire to any grassland, brushland or woodland, except it be his own property, or in that case without first...
- § 14-137 Willfully or negligently setting fire to woods and fields
If any person, firm or corporation shall willfully or negligently set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any woods, lands or fields,...
- § 14-138 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(6)
- § 14-138.1 Setting fire to grassland, brushland, or woodland
Any person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity who shall in any manner whatsoever start any fire upon any grassland, brushland, or woodland without fully...
- § 14-139 Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 1100, s. 1
- § 14-140 Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(3)
- § 14-140.1 Certain fire to be guarded by watchman
Any person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity who shall burn any brush, grass, or other material whereby any property may be endangered or destroyed,...
- § 14-141 Burning or otherwise destroying crops in the field
Any person who shall willfully burn or destroy any other person's lawfully grown crop, pasture, or provender shall be punished as follows: (1) If the...
- § 14-142 Injuries to dams and water channels of mills and factories
If any person shall cut away, destroy or otherwise injure any dam, or part thereof, or shall obstruct or damage any race, canal or other...
- § 14-143 Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 700, s. 2
- § 14-144 Injuring houses, churches, fences and walls
If any person shall, by any other means than burning or attempting to burn, unlawfully and willfully demolish, destroy, deface, injure or damage any of...
- § 14-145 Unlawful posting of advertisements
Any person who in any manner paints, prints, places, or affixes, or causes to be painted, printed, placed, or affixed, any business or commercial advertisement...
- § 14-146 Injuring bridges
If any person shall unlawfully and willfully demolish, destroy, break, tear down, injure or damage any bridge across any of the creeks or rivers or...
- § 14-147 Removing, altering or defacing landmarks
If any person, firm or corporation shall knowingly remove, alter or deface any landmark in anywise whatsoever, or shall knowingly cause such removal, alteration or...
- § 14-148 Defacing or desecrating grave sites
(a) It is unlawful to willfully: (1) Throw, place or put any refuse, garbage or trash in or on any cemetery. (2) Take away, disturb,...
- § 14-149 Desecrating, plowing over or covering up graves; desecrating human remains
(a) It is a Class I felony, without authorization of law or the consent of the surviving spouse or next of kin of the deceased,...
- § 14-150 through 14-150.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 752, s. 3, effective October 1, 1981
- § 14-151 Interfering with gas, electric and steam appliances
If any person shall willfully, with intent to injure or defraud, commit any of the acts set forth in the following subdivisions, he shall be...
- § 14-151.1 Interfering with electric, gas or water meters; prima facie evidence of intent to alter, tamper with or bypass electric, gas or water meters; unlawful reconnection of electricity, gas, or water; civil liability
(a) It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to alter, tamper with or bypass a meter which has been installed for the purpose of...
- § 14-152 Injuring fixtures and other property of gas companies; civil liability
If any person shall willfully, wantonly or maliciously remove, obstruct, injure or destroy any part of the plant, machinery, fixtures, structures or buildings, or anything...
- § 14-153 Tampering with engines and boilers
If any person shall willfully turn out water from any boiler or turn the bolts of any engine or boiler, or meddle or tamper with...
- § 14-154 Injuring wires and other fixtures of telephone, telegraph, and electric-power companies
If any person shall willfully injure, destroy or pull down any telegraph, telephone, cable telecommunications, or electric‑power‑transmission pedestal or pole, or any telegraph, telephone, cable...
- § 14-155 Unauthorized connections with telephone or telegraph
It shall be unlawful for any person to tap or make any connection with any wire or apparatus of any telephone or telegraph company operating...
- § 14-156 Injuring fixtures and other property of electric-power companies
It shall be unlawful for any person willfully and wantonly, and without the consent of the owner, to take down, remove, injure, obstruct, displace or...
- § 14-157 Felling trees on telephone and electric-power wires
If any person shall negligently and carelessly cut or fell any tree, or any limb or branch therefrom, in such a manner as to cause...
- § 14-158 Interfering with telephone lines
If any person shall unnecessarily disconnect the wire or in any other way render any telephone line, or any part of such line, unfit for...
- § 14-159 Injuring buildings or fences; taking possession of house without consent
If any person shall deface, injure or damage any house, uninhabited house or other building belonging to another; or deface, damage, pull down, injure, remove...
- § 14-159.1 Contaminating a public water system
(a) A person commits the offense of contaminating a public water system, as defined in G.S. 130A‑313(10), if he willfully or wantonly: (1) Contaminates, adulterates...
- § 14-159.2 Interference with animal research
(a) It is unlawful for a person willfully to commit any of the following acts: (1) The unauthorized entry into any research facility where animals...
- § 14-159.3 Trespass to land on motorized all terrain vehicle
(a) No person shall operate any motorized all terrain vehicle: (1) On any private property not owned by the operator, without the consent of the...
- § 14-159.4 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-159.5 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 22A - Trespassing Upon "Posted" Property to Hunt, Fish, Trap, or Remove Pine Needles/Straw.
- § 14-159.6 Trespass for purposes of hunting, etc., without written consent a misdemeanor
(a) Any person who willfully goes on the land, waters, ponds, or a legally established waterfowl blind of another upon which notices, signs or posters...
- § 14-159.7 Regulations as to posting of property
The notices, signs or posters described in G.S. 14‑159.6 shall measure not less than 120 square inches and shall be conspicuously posted on private lands...
- § 14-159.8 Mutilation, etc., of "posted" signs; posting signs without consent of owner or agent
Any person who shall mutilate, destroy or take down any "posted," "no hunting" or similar notice, sign or poster on the lands, waters, or legally...
- § 14-159.9 Entrance on navigable waters, etc., for purpose of fishing, hunting or trapping not prohibited
Nothing in this Article shall be construed to prohibit the entrance of any person upon navigable waters and the bays and sounds adjoining such waters...
- § 14-159.10 Enforcement of Article by peace officers; wildlife protectors authorized to execute process
This Article may be enforced by deputy sheriffs and other peace officers with general subject matter jurisdiction. Law‑enforcement officers of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources...
Article 22B - First and Second Degree Trespass.
- § 14-159.11 Definition
As used in this Article, "building" means any structure or part of a structure, other than a conveyance, enclosed so as to permit reasonable entry...
- § 14-159.12 First degree trespass
(a) Offense. A person commits the offense of first degree trespass if, without authorization, he enters or remains: (1) On premises of another so enclosed...
- § 14-159.13 Second degree trespass
(a) Offense. A person commits the offense of second degree trespass if, without authorization, he enters or remains on premises of another: (1) After he...
- § 14-159.14 Lesser included offenses
The offenses created by this act shall constitute lesser included offenses of breaking or entering as provided in G.S. 14‑54 and G.S. 14‑56. (1987,...
- § 14-159.15 through 14-159.19 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 22C - Cave Protection Act.
- § 14-159.20 Definitions
The terms listed below have the following definitions as used in this Article, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (1) "Cave" means...
- § 14-159.21 Vandalism; penalties
It is unlawful for any person, without express, prior, written permission of the owner, to willfully or knowingly: (1) Break, break off, crack, carve upon,...
- § 14-159.22 Sale of speleothems unlawful; penalties
It is unlawful to sell or offer for sale any speleothems in this State, or to export them for sale outside the State. A person...
- § 14-159.23 Limitation of liability of owners and agents
The owner of a cave, and his agents and employees, shall not be liable for any injury to, or for the death of any...
Article 23 - Trespasses to Personal Property.
- § 14-160 Willful and wanton injury to personal property; punishments
(a) If any person shall wantonly and willfully injure the personal property of another he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (b) Notwithstanding...
- § 14-160.1 Alteration, destruction or removal of permanent identification marks from personal property
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to alter, deface, destroy or remove the permanent serial number, manufacturer's identification plate or other permanent, distinguishing...
- § 14-161 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(7)
- § 14-162 Removing boats
If any person shall loose, unmoor, or turn adrift from any landing or other place wherever the same shall be, any boat, canoe, or other...
- § 14-163 Poisoning livestock
If any person shall willfully and unlawfully poison any horse, mule, hog, sheep or other livestock, the property of another, such person shall be punished...
- § 14-163.1 Assaulting a law enforcement agency animal or an assistance animal
(a) The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Assistance animal. An animal that is trained and may be used to assist a "person with...
- § 14-164 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(8)
Article 24 - Vehicles and Draft Animals-Protection of Bailor against Acts of Bailee.
- § 14-165 Malicious or willful injury to hired personal property
Any person who shall rent or hire from any person, firm or corporation, any horse, mule or like animal, or any buggy, wagon, truck, automobile,...
- § 14-166 Subletting of hired property
Any person who shall rent or hire, any horse, mule, or other like animal, or any buggy, wagon, truck, automobile, or other like vehicle, aircraft,...
- § 14-167 Failure to return hired property
Any person who shall rent or hire, any horse, mule or other like animal, or any buggy, wagon, truck, automobile, or other vehicle, aircraft, motor,...
- § 14-168 Hiring with intent to defraud
Any person who shall, with intent to cheat and defraud the owner thereof of the rental price therefor, hire or rent any horse or mule...
- § 14-168.1 Conversion by bailee, lessee, tenant or attorney-in-fact
Every person entrusted with any property as bailee, lessee, tenant or lodger, or with any power of attorney for the sale or transfer thereof, who...
- § 14-168.2 Definitions
For the purposes of this Article, the terms "rent," "hire" and "lease" are used to designate the letting for hire of any horse, mule or...
- § 14-168.3 Prima facie evidence of intent to convert property
It shall be prima facie evidence of intent to commit a crime as set forth in G.S. 14‑167, 14‑168, and 14‑168.1 with respect to any...
- § 14-168.4 Failing to return rented property on which there is purchase option
(a) It shall be a Class 2 misdemeanor for any person to fail to return rented property with intent to defeat the rights of the...
- § 14-168.5 Prima facie evidence of intent to convert a truck, automobile, or other motor vehicle; demand for return or payment
(a) Prima Facie Evidence. It shall be prima facie evidence of intent to commit a crime as set forth in G.S. 14‑167, 14‑168, and 14‑168.1...
- § 14-169 Violation made misdemeanor
Except as otherwise provided, any person violating the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1927, c. 61, s. 5;...
Article 25 - Regulating the Leasing of Storage Batteries.
Article 26 - Offenses against Public Morality and Decency.
- § 14-177 Crime against nature
If any person shall commit the crime against nature, with mankind or beast, he shall be punished as a Class I felon. (5 Eliz., c....
- § 14-178 Incest
(a) Offense. A person commits the offense of incest if the person engages in carnal intercourse with the person's (i) grandparent or grandchild, (ii) parent...
- § 14-179 Repealed by Session Laws 2002-119, s. 2, effective December 1, 2002
- § 14-180 Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402
- § 14-181 through 14-182 Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 108, s. 4
- § 14-183 Bigamy
If any person, being married, shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife, every such offender, and every person...
- § 14-184 Fornication and adultery
If any man and woman, not being married to each other, shall lewdly and lasciviously associate, bed and cohabit together, they shall be guilty of...
- § 14-185 Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402
- § 14-186 Opposite sexes occupying same bedroom at hotel for immoral purposes; falsely registering as husband and wife
Any man and woman found occupying the same bedroom in any hotel, public inn or boardinghouse for any immoral purpose, or any man and woman...
- § 14-187 Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402
- § 14-188 Certain evidence relative to keeping disorderly houses admissible; keepers of such houses defined; punishment
(a) On a prosecution in any court for keeping a disorderly house or bawdy house, or permitting a house to be used as a bawdy...
- § 14-189 through 14-189.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 405, s. 4
- § 14-189.2 through 14-190 Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 591, s. 4
- § 14-190.1 Obscene literature and exhibitions
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to intentionally disseminate obscenity. A person, firm or corporation disseminates obscenity within the meaning...
- § 14-190.2 Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 703, s. 2
- § 14-190.3 Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 703, s. 3
- § 14-190.4 Coercing acceptance of obscene articles or publications
No person, firm or corporation shall, as a condition to any sale, allocation, consignment or delivery for resale of any paper, magazine, book, periodical or...
- § 14-190.5 Preparation of obscene photographs, slides and motion pictures
Every person who knowingly: (1) Photographs himself or any other person, for purposes of preparing an obscene film, photograph, negative, slide or motion picture for...
- § 14-190.6 Employing or permitting minor to assist in offense under Article
Every person 18 years of age or older who intentionally, in any manner, hires, employs, uses or permits any minor under the age of 16...
- § 14-190.7 Dissemination to minors under the age of 16 years
Every person 18 years of age or older who knowingly disseminates to any minor under the age of 16 years any material which he knows...
- § 14-190.8 Dissemination to minors under the age of 13 years
Every person 18 years of age or older who knowingly disseminates to any minor under the age of 13 years any material which he knows...
- § 14-190.9 Indecent exposure
(a) Unless the conduct is punishable under subsection (a1) of this section, any person who shall willfully expose the private parts of his or her...
- § 14-190.10 through 14-190.12 Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 703, s. 9
- § 14-190.13 Definitions for certain offenses concerning minors
The following definitions apply to G.S. 14‑190.14, displaying material harmful to minors; G.S. 14‑190.15, disseminating or exhibiting to minors harmful material or performances; G.S. 14‑190.16,...
- § 14-190.14 Displaying material harmful to minors
(a) Offense. A person commits the offense of displaying material that is harmful to minors if, having custody, control, or supervision of a commercial establishment...
- § 14-190.15 Disseminating harmful material to minors; exhibiting harmful performances to minors
(a) Disseminating Harmful Material. A person commits the offense of disseminating harmful material to minors if, with or without consideration and knowing the character or...
- § 14-190.16 First degree sexual exploitation of a minor
(a) Offense. A person commits the offense of first degree sexual exploitation of a minor if, knowing the character or content of the material or...
- § 14-190.17 Second degree sexual exploitation of a minor
(a) Offense. A person commits the offense of second degree sexual exploitation of a minor if, knowing the character or content of the material, he:...
- § 14-190.17A Third degree sexual exploitation of a minor
(a) Offense. A person commits the offense of third degree sexual exploitation of a minor if, knowing the character or content of the material, he...
- § 14-190.18 Promoting prostitution of a minor
(a) Offense. A person commits the offense of promoting prostitution of a minor if he knowingly: (1) Entices, forces, encourages, or otherwise facilitates a minor...
- § 14-190.19 Participating in prostitution of a minor
(a) Offense. A person commits the offense of participating in the prostitution of a minor if he is not a minor and he patronizes a...
- § 14-190.20 Warrants for obscenity offenses
A search warrant or criminal process for a violation of G.S. 14‑190.1 through 14‑190.5 may be issued only upon the request of a prosecutor. (1985,...
- § 14-191 Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 591, s. 4
- § 14-192 through 14-193 Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 405, s. 4
- § 14-194 Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 591, s. 4
- § 14-195 Repealed by Session Laws 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 767, s. 30(11)
- § 14-196 Using profane, indecent or threatening language to any person over telephone; annoying or harassing by repeated telephoning or making false statements over telephone
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person: (1) To use in telephonic communications any words or language of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious or...
- § 14-196.1 through 14-196.2 Repealed by Session Laws 1967, c. 833, s. 3
- § 14-196.3 Cyberstalking
(a) The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Electronic communication. Any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature,...
- § 14-197 Using profane or indecent language on public highways; counties exempt
If any person shall, on any public road or highway and in the hearing of two or more persons, in a loud and boisterous manner,...
- § 14-198 Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 402
- § 14-199 Obstructing way to places of public worship
If any person shall maliciously stop up or obstruct the way leading to any place of public worship, or to any spring or well commonly...
- § 14-200 through 14-201 Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 72(9), (10)
- § 14-202 Secretly peeping into room occupied by another person
(a) Any person who shall peep secretly into any room occupied by another person shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (a1) Unless covered...
- § 14-202.1 Taking indecent liberties with children
(a) A person is guilty of taking indecent liberties with children if, being 16 years of age or more and at least five years older...
- § 14-202.2 Indecent liberties between children
(a) A person who is under the age of 16 years is guilty of taking indecent liberties with children if the person either: (1) Willfully...
- § 14-202.3 Solicitation of child by computer to commit an unlawful sex act
(a) Offense. A person is guilty of solicitation of a child by a computer if the person is 16 years of age or older and...
- § 14-202.4 Taking indecent liberties with a student
(a) If a defendant, who is a teacher, school administrator, student teacher, school safety officer, or coach, at any age, or who is other school...
- § 14-202.5 through 14-202.9 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 26A - Adult Establishments.
- § 14-202.10 Definitions
As used in this Article: (1) "Adult bookstore" means a bookstore: a. Which receives a majority of its gross income during any calendar month from...
- § 14-202.11 Restrictions as to adult establishments
(a) No person shall permit any building, premises, structure, or other facility that contains any adult establishment to contain any other kind of adult establishment....
- § 14-202.12 Violations; penalties
Any person who violates G.S. 14‑202.11 shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. Any person who has been previously convicted of a violation of...
Article 27 - Prostitution.
- § 14-203 Definition of terms
The term "prostitution" shall be construed to include the offering or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse for hire, and shall also be construed...
- § 14-204 Prostitution and various acts abetting prostitution unlawful
It shall be unlawful: (1) To keep, set up, maintain, or operate any place, structure, building or conveyance for the purpose of prostitution or assignation....
- § 14-204.1 Loitering for the purpose of engaging in prostitution offense
(a) For the purposes of this section, "public place" means any street, sidewalk, bridge, alley or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or transportation facility,...
- § 14-205 Prosecution; in what courts
Prosecutions for the violation of any of the provisions of this Article shall be tried in the courts of this State wherein misdemeanors are triable...
- § 14-206 Reputation and prior conviction admissible as evidence
In the trial of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this Article, testimony of a prior conviction, or testimony...
- § 14-207 Degrees of guilt
Any person who shall be found to have committed two or more violations of any of the provisions of G.S. 14‑204 of this Article within...
- § 14-208 Punishment; probation; parole
Any person who shall be deemed guilty in the first degree, as set forth in G.S. 14‑207, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor:...
- § 14-208.1 through 14-208.4 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 27A - Sex Offender and Public Protection Registration Programs.
- § 14-208.5 Purpose
The General Assembly recognizes that sex offenders often pose a high risk of engaging in sex offenses even after being released from incarceration or commitment...
- § 14-208.6 Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Article: (1a) "Aggravated offense" means any criminal offense that includes either of the following: (i) engaging in a sexual...
- § 14-208.6A Lifetime registration requirements for criminal offenders
It is the objective of the General Assembly to establish a 10‑year registration requirement for persons convicted of certain offenses against minors or sexually violent...
- § 14-208.6B Registration requirements for juveniles transferred to and convicted in superior court
A juvenile transferred to superior court pursuant to G.S. 7B‑2200 who is convicted of a sexually violent offense or an offense against a minor as...
- § 14-208.6C Discontinuation of registration requirement
The period of registration required by any of the provisions of this Article shall be discontinued only if the conviction requiring registration is reversed, vacated,...
- § 14-208.7 Registration
(a) A person who is a State resident and who has a reportable conviction shall be required to maintain registration with the sheriff of the...
- § 14-208.8 Prerelease notification
(a) At least 10 days, but not earlier than 30 days, before a person who will be subject to registration under this Article is due...
- § 14-208.8A Notification requirement for out-of-county employment if temporary residence established
(a) Notice Required. A person required to register under G.S. 14‑208.7 shall notify the sheriff of the county with whom the person is registered of...
- § 14-208.9 Change of address; change of academic status or educational employment status
(a) If a person required to register changes address, the person shall report in person and provide written notice of the new address not later...
- § 14-208.9A Verification of registration information
(a) The information in the county registry shall be verified semiannually for each registrant as follows: (1) Every year on the anniversary of a person's...
- § 14-208.10 Registration information is public record; access to registration information
(a) The following information regarding a person required to register under this Article is public record and shall be available for public inspection: name, sex,...
- § 14-208.11 Failure to register; falsification of verification notice; failure to return verification form; order for arrest
(a) A person required by this Article to register who willfully does any of the following is guilty of a Class F felony: (1) Fails...
- § 14-208.11A Duty to report noncompliance of a sex offender; penalty for failure to report in certain circumstances
(a) It shall be unlawful and a Class H felony for any person who has reason to believe that an offender is in violation of...
- § 14-208.12 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-516, s. 1
- § 14-208.12A Request for termination of registration requirement
(a) A person required to register under this Part may petition the superior court in the district where the person resides to terminate the registration...
- § 14-208.13 File with Police Information Network
(a) The Division shall include the registration information in the Police Information Network as set forth in G.S. 114‑10.1. (b) The Division shall maintain the...
- § 14-208.14 Statewide registry; Division of Criminal Statistics designated custodian of statewide registry
(a) The Division of Criminal Statistics shall compile and keep current a central statewide sex offender registry. The Division is the State agency designated as...
- § 14-208.15 Certain statewide registry information is public record: access to statewide registry
(a) The information in the statewide registry that is public record is the same as in G.S. 14‑208.10. The Division shall release any other relevant...
- § 14-208.16 Residential restrictions
(a) A registrant under this Article shall not knowingly reside within 1,000 feet of the property on which any public or nonpublic school or child...
- § 14-208.17 Sexual predator prohibited from working or volunteering for child-involved activities; limitation on residential use
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person required to register under this Article to work for any person or as a sole proprietor, with...
- § 14-208.18 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-208.19 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 14-208.20 Sexually violent predator determination; notice of intent; presentence investigation
(a) When a person is charged by indictment or information with the commission of a s
