North Carolina General Statutes

Read-only access to the North Carolina General Statutes, mirrored from ncleg.gov and refreshed weekly. Search the statute book by subject when you have no citation, read any section by citation in any spelling (14-72.1, G.S. 14-72.1, § 14-72.1), and follow the legislature's own record of how the law changed: amendment history back to the 1800s, word-level diffs between versions, text that is enacted but not yet effective, and the citation graph in both directions — including what cites a section, which is the half you cannot get by reading it. Eight tools: search_statutes, get_statute, pending_changes, amendment_history, diff_statute, recent_law_changes, chapter_activity, cross_references. Two limits reported in every response rather than left implicit. This mirrors the codified text, which lags enacted law — each answer carries codified_through, session_laws_through and modifications_through so you can see how far behind it is. And it covers codified statutes and enacted session laws only, so a bill that has passed or awaits signature is in none of it; an absence here is never evidence that a bill did not pass. North Carolina only. Raw statute text, not legal advice — annotations, case notes and editor's notes are not included.