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General Statutes

Chapter 14

875 published sections.

Article 1 - Felonies and Misdemeanors

Article 2 - Principals and Accessories

Article 2A - Habitual Felons

Article 2B - Violent Habitual Felons

Article 2C - Continuing Criminal Enterprise

Article 2D - Habitual Breaking and Entering Status Offense

Article 2E - Armed Habitual Felon

Article 2F - Crimes by Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Article 3 - Rebellion

Article 3A - Terrorism

Article 4 - Subversive Activities

Article 4A - Prohibited Secret Societies and Activities

Article 5 - Counterfeiting and Issuing Monetary Substitutes

Article 5A - Endangering Executive, Legislative, Court, and Local Elected Officers

Article 6 - Homicide

Article 6A - Unborn Victims

Article 7B - Rape and Other Sex Offenses

Article 8 - Assaults

  • N.C.G.S. § 14-28 Malicious castration.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-28.1 Female genital mutilation of a child.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-29 Castration or other maiming without malice aforethought.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-30 Malicious maiming.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-30.1 Malicious throwing of corrosive acid or alkali.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-31 Maliciously assaulting in a secret manner.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-32 Felonious assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflicting serious injury; punishments.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-32.1 Assaults on individuals with a disability; punishments.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-32.2 Patient abuse and neglect; punishments; definitions.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-32.3 Domestic abuse, neglect, and exploitation of disabled or elder adults.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-32.4 Assault inflicting serious bodily injury; strangulation; penalties.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-32.5 Misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-32.6 Habitual domestic violence.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-33 Misdemeanor assaults, batteries, and affrays, simple and aggravated; punishments.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-33.1 Evidence of former threats upon plea of self-defense.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-33.2 Habitual misdemeanor assault.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-34 Assaulting by pointing gun.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-34.1 Discharging certain barreled weapons or a firearm into occupied property.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-34.1A Discharging certain barreled weapons or a firearm at or into certain unoccupied emergency vehicles.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-34.2 Assault with a firearm or other deadly weapon upon governmental officers or employees, company police officers, or campus police officers.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-34.3 Manufacture, sale, purchase, or possession of teflon-coated types of bullets prohibited.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-34.4 Adulterated or misbranded food, drugs, or cosmetics; intent to cause serious injury or death; intent to extort.
  • N.C.G.S. § 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.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-34.6 Assault or affray on a firefighter, an emergency medical technician, medical responder, and medical practice and hospital personnel.
  • N.C.G.S. § 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.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-34.8 Criminal use of laser device.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-34.9 Discharging a firearm from within an enclosure.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-34.10 Discharge firearm within enclosure to incite fear.

Article 9 - Hazing

Article 10 - Kidnapping and Abduction

Article 10A - Human Trafficking

Article 11 - Abortion and Kindred Offenses

Article 12 - Libel and Slander

Article 13 - Malicious Injury or Damage by Use of Explosive or Incendiary Device or Material

Article 13A - North Carolina Criminal Gang Suppression Act

Article 13B - North Carolina Criminal Gang Nuisance Abatement Act

Article 14 - Burglary and Other Housebreakings

Article 15 - Arson and Other Burnings

Article 16 - Larceny

Article 16A - Organized Retail Theft

Article 17 - Robbery

Article 18 - Embezzlement

Article 19 - False Pretenses and Cheats

Article 19A - Obtaining Property or Services by False or Fraudulent Use of Credit Device or Other Means

  • N.C.G.S. § 14-113.1 Use of false or counterfeit credit device; unauthorized use of another's credit device; use after notice of revocation.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-113.2 Notice defined; prima facie evidence of receipt of notice.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-113.3 Use of credit device as prima facie evidence of knowledge.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-113.4 Avoiding or attempting to avoid payment for telecommunication services.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-113.5 Making, distributing, possessing, transferring, or programming device for theft of telecommunication service; publication of information regarding schemes, devices, means, or methods for such theft; concealment of existence, origin or destination of any telecommunication.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-113.6 Penalties for violation; civil action.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-113.6A Venue of offenses.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-113.7 Article not construed as repealing § 14-100.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-113.7A Application of Article to financial transaction cards.

Article 19B - Financial Transaction Card Crime Act

Article 19C - Identity Theft

Article 19D - Telephone Records Privacy Protection Act

Article 20 - Frauds

Article 20A - Residential Mortgage Fraud Act

Article 21 - Forgery

  • N.C.G.S. § 14-119 Forgery of notes, checks, and other securities; counterfeiting of instruments.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-120 Uttering forged paper or instrument containing a forged endorsement.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-121 Selling of certain forged securities.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-122 Forgery of deeds, wills and certain other instruments.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-122.1 Falsifying documents issued by a secondary school, postsecondary educational institution, or governmental agency.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-123 Forging names to petitions and uttering forged petitions.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-124 Forging certificate of corporate stock and uttering forged certificates.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-125 Forgery of bank notes and other instruments by connecting genuine parts.

Article 22 - Damages and Other Offenses to Land and Fixtures

Article 22A - Trespassing Upon "Posted" Property to Hunt, Fish, Trap, or Remove Pine Needles/Straw

Article 22B - First and Second Degree Trespass

Article 22C - Cave Protection Act

Article 22D - Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons from Residential Property

Article 23 - Trespasses to Personal Property

Article 24 - Vehicles and Draft Animals-Protection of Bailor Against Acts of Bailee

Article 26 - Offenses Against Public Morality and Decency

Article 26A - Adult Establishments

Article 27 - Prostitution

Article 27A - Sex Offender and Public Protection Registration Programs

Article 28 - Perjury

Article 29 - Bribery

Article 30 - Obstructing Justice

Article 30A - Secret Listening

Article 31 - Misconduct in Public Office

Article 32 - Misconduct in Private Office

Article 33 - Prison Breach and Prisoners

Article 34 - Custodial Institutions

Article 35 - Offenses Against the Public Peace

Article 36 - Offenses Against the Public Safety

Article 36A - Riots, Civil Disorders, and Emergencies

Article 36B - Nuclear, Biological, or Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction

  • N.C.G.S. § 14-288.21 Unlawful manufacture, assembly, possession, storage, transportation, sale, purchase, delivery, or acquisition of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; exceptions; punishment.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-288.22 Unlawful use of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; punishment.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-288.23 Making a false report concerning a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; punishment; restitution.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-288.24 Perpetrating hoax by use of false nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction; punishment; restitution.

Article 37 - Lotteries, Gaming, Bingo and Raffles

Article 39 - Protection of Minors

Article 40 - Protection of the Family

Article 41 - Alcoholic Beverages

  • N.C.G.S. § 14-329 Manufacturing, trafficking in, transporting, or possessing poisonous alcoholic beverages.

Article 44 - Regulation of Sales

Article 45 - Regulation of Employer and Employee

Article 46 - Regulation of Landlord and Tenant

  • N.C.G.S. § 14-358 Local: Violation of certain contracts between landlord and tenant.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-359 Local: Tenant neglecting crop; landlord failing to make advances; harboring or employing delinquent tenant.

Article 47 - Cruelty to Animals

Article 49 - Protection of Livestock Running at Large

Article 50 - Protection of Letters, Telegrams, and Telephone Messages

  • N.C.G.S. § 14-370 Wrongfully obtaining or divulging knowledge of telephonic messages.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-371 Violating privacy of telegraphic messages; failure to transmit and deliver same promptly.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-372 Unauthorized opening, reading or publishing of sealed letters and telegrams.

Article 51 - Protection of Athletic Contests

Article 51A - Protection of Horse Shows

Article 52 - Miscellaneous Police Regulations

Article 52A - Sale of Weapons in Certain Counties

Article 53A - Other Firearms

Article 53B - Firearm Regulation

Article 53C - Sport Shooting Range Protection Act of 1997

Article 54 - Sale, etc., of Pyrotechnics

Article 54A - The Felony Firearms Act

  • N.C.G.S. § 14-415.1 Possession of firearms, etc., by felon prohibited.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-415.3 Possession of a firearm or weapon of mass destruction by persons acquitted of certain crimes by reason of insanity or persons determined to be incapable to proceed prohibited.
  • N.C.G.S. § 14-415.4 Restoration of firearms rights.

Article 54B - Concealed Handgun Permit

Article 55 - Regulation of Certain Reptiles

Article 56 - Debt Adjusting

Article 58 - Records, Tapes and Other Recorded Devices

Article 58A - Audiovisual Recordings

Article 59 - Public Intoxication

Article 60 - Computer-Related Crime

Article 61 - Trains and Railroads