Legislature Decriminalizes Local Ordinances

Published for Coates' Canons on October 07, 2021.

For some time, under North Carolina law, violations of city and county ordinances have been treated as misdemeanors or infractions unless the ordinance explicitly said that they were not.  Starting in 2018, the General Assembly embarked on a project to … Read more

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