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2217
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Loeb identifies the factors that affect automobile liability insurance for North Carolinians, and explains how rates are set in the state.
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1488
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Beavers, once eradicated by trapping, have made a dramatic comeback and now present landowners and officials with a dilemma: how to control the population so that such benefits as soil conservation outweigh widespread flooding and other damage.
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1171
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The basic system governing the sale of alcoholic beverages in North Carolina is the local option system. Local option allows the voters of each county and town to decide what alcoholic beverages legally may be sold there. This system has been modified through the years, and today faces stiff challenges.
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477
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Loeb discusses the automobile insurance rate system, including the Safe Driver Insurance Plan and the Reinsurance Facility.
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18407
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In North Carolina, arson is a common law offense that applies to only a person who \"willfully and maliciously burns the dwelling house of another.\" Loeb discusses the growing problem with arson in North Carolina, and how it is defined legally.
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18405
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The modern history of alcoholic beverage control dates from the ratification of the 18th Amendment. The age limits established in the 1930s remained 18 and 21 for beer and spirituous liquors respectively, until the 1980s when rising concern over fatalities prompted a change in the drinking age to 21. The North Carolina General Assembly adopted the legal drinking age of 21 in 1985 to avoid a 5 percent loss of federal highway funds.
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18426
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The 1981 session of the North Carolina General Assembly enacted a new law mandating the use of passenger restraint systems (safety seats or seat belts) for children under the age of two when they are riding in an automobile. Loeb discusses this law and its effectiveness.
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18424
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Drug trafficking of drugs such as cocaine, heroine, and marijuana are growing problems in the United States. This led north Carolina to enact strict drug-trafficking statues. Before this the law was passed in 1980, North Carolina did not set special punishments for crimes that involved very large amounts of drugs. However, under the drug-trafficking law, the punishment escalates drastically as the amount of the illegal substances increases.
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29944
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Numerous drug law cases have been decided by the North Carolina appellate courts in recent months. These decisions deal with manufacture, possession, sales, trafficking, conspiracy, search and seizure, and illegal prescriptions.
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18534
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The North Carolina Drug Paraphernalia Act took effect October 1, 1981. Specifically, the measure outlaws sale of drug paraphernalia by retailers and an individual can be charged with possession if found with these articles. Paraphernalia constitutes a range of items divided into twelve categories to demonstrate what could be considered for drug use and other tobacco related products that would be legal for retailers to sell.
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29952
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North Carolina’s new child passenger restraint law went into effect on July 1, 1982. The law applies only to a driver transporting his or her own child of less than two years of age in a personally owned vehicle.
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18346
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In recent years there has been a great deal of litigation concerning motor vehicle liability insurance rates in North Carolina. Issues include rates based on age and sex and insurance rates for motorcycles.
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18270
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For decades the North Carolina General Assembly has attempted by law to remove the drunken driver from the streets and highways of the state. Loeb discusses the various laws pertaining to the intoxicated driver and why some work and some do not.
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18307
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January 1975 was the effective date of an important addition to the North Carolina Driving Under the Influence Law--an addition that made it unlawful to drive a vehicle with a blood-alcohol level of 0.10 percent or more, regardless of the actual extent of intoxication.
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18161
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The act authorizing liquor-by-the-drink was of significant interest in the 1973 North Carolina General Assembly. The statue provides measures for authorizing and regulating countywide sales of mixed beverages.
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