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A wide variety of benefits, including Medicaid, food stamps, and school lunch programs, are provided by local governmental agencies with support by federal, state, and local funding. Questions often arise at the local level over whether these benefits and services may or must be denied to individuals who are not United States citizens. Moore explains how federal law categorizes noncitizens for purposes of benefit eligibility and then describes the legal rules for determining noncitizens eligibility for federal, state, and local benefits.
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9556
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One of the most significant pieces of new legislation passed by the 2006 short session of the North Carolina General Assembly was the State Government Ethics Act. The authors discuss Parts I and III, since Part II applies solely to General Assembly members.
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Abused, neglected, or cruelly treated animals have protection under the law. In this second of a two-part series, Wall discusses topics including civil remedies available for protecting animals and the laws governing animal cruelty investigators.
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Properly acquiring or recording easements for utility lines provides a property owner notice of their existence and gives the municipality a legal right to the use and maintenance of the easement. Simpson discusses the legal issues that unrecorded utility easements raise for North Carolina cities.
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Bulletin No. 114, August 2007 included coverage of legal issues that unrecorded utility easements raise for North Carolina cities. This bulletin responds to suggestions made by local government attorneys concerning this issue.
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11045
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Many state and local governments are enacting their own immigration-related laws and ordinances because they feel the federal government is lacking in these areas. Such actions at the state and local levels raise constitutional questions. Zota discusses these constitutional issues.
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11046
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Almost all of the state's local governments are subject to statutory requirements that govern purchases and other contracts. These requirements have increased in number and complexity over the past twenty-five years; at the same time local governments have also been adopting their own purchasing requirements. Youens provides an overview of these statutory requirements and demonstrates how to reconcile local government policies with them.
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11047
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Youens discusses \"how the state public records laws apply to bids and proposals submitted to local governments in North Carolina and the obligations local governments have to disclose these bids and proposals.\"
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This bulletin summarizes the law of de facto officers in the state. It distinguishes between de jure officers and de facto officers, it sets out the variety of circumstances in which the courts have recognized have recognized a person as a de facto officer, and it discusses the circumstances in which the courts have found persons to be \"intruders,\" or \"usurpers,\" that is, persons whose actions are not valid.
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16206
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North Carolina, like a number of other states, has a set of statutes and regulations governing the control of rabies. This bulletin contains a summary of the history of the rabies control laws; an overview of the laws' major components, including recent changes; and highlights areas where local government ordinances and board of health rules also play a role in the control of the disease.
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The 2006 N.C. General Assembly short session passed a significant new law--the State Government Ethics Act, which established ethical standards for the conduct of state officials in all three branches of government and imposed new regulations and restrictions on those entities and individuals who seek to influence them. These laws have been amended every session since 2006. This bulletin reflects the current state of the law through the 2010 legislative short session.
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Normally someone who is not a party to a contract has no standing to enforce or challenge the validity of the contract, nor any right to seek damages for its breach. Occasionally, however, courts recognize and enforce nonparty rights in a contract, as third-party beneficiaries. This bulletin explores the application of third-party beneficiary rules to contracts entered into by local governments in North Carolina.
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Property tax revaluations in difficult economic times sometimes produce taxpayers' angst and outrage. Twenty-seven counties conducting revaluations were met with resulting taxpayer complaints. Even more surprising were the protests and responses from several boards of county commissioners. Boards in six counties voted to repeal or postpone the revaluations and four did so, even though they were advised they were in violation of state property tax law. The N.C. Department of Revenue, Attorney General, and N.C. General Assembly all weighed in--the result being a law that approved all six repeals of the 2009 revaluations.
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One statutory option a city or county has in enforcing its ordinances is to impose a civil penalty on a violator, and if necessary, sue for the penalty in a civil action in the nature of the debt. This article considers the question of whether the ordinance being enforced must set out an exact dollar amount for each penalty, to be sued for regardless of circumstances, or whether it may set out a dollar range for penalties and leave to an administrative official or board the decision as to the amount of the penalty in any individual instance.
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Both cities and counties enjoy statutory authority to enforce their ordinances through civil penalties, which if necessary can be collected in a civil action in the nature of the debt. The North Carolina General Statues sets the upper limit of the fines or penalties for local ordinances enforced as misdemeanors or infractions, but there is no statutory maximum for civil penalties in general.
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