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The state and local boards of elections and district attorneys have been granted the special powers to investigate election-law violations and to prosecute or otherwise deal with these violations.
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472
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The incineration of municipal waste is now being used to generate energy.
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929
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New North Carolina statutes will alter the procedures for levying and collecting property taxes on motor vehicles in North Carolina.
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1037
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Campbell presents the legal aspects of financing municipal solid waste disposal facilities in North Carolina.
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2289
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Although the state's General Statute 14-399 makes littering a crime, control of this unlawful disposal of solid waste is difficult because litterbugs are rarely caught and because lawmen and prosecutors do not view it as a high priority crime.
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2906
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Cities and counties are authorized by the General Assembly to grant licenses and franchises to private firms that provide solid waste management services.
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5183
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Campbell discusses the 1999 ruling of the North Carolina Supreme Court in Smith Chapel Baptist Church v. City of Durham. The court decided that Durham's storm watch fees were invalid because \"they were used to finance programs not authorized by the enabling statues.\"
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Henry Wilkins Lewis served as a faculty member at the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1946 to 1979 and as director from 1973 to 1979. Lewis graduated from UNC in 1937 and earned a law degree from Harvard in 1940. He practiced law for one year in his hometown of Jackson, and then served in the U.S. Army for the next four and one-half years. At the Institute, Lewis spent most of his career in election law and property tax, becoming the preeminent authority on both subjects.
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17883
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The 1965 General Assembly determined it necessary for all vehicles in the state to pass an annual inspection. The assembly ruled that the Department of Motor Vehicles to administer the program and private shops to perform inspections. Inspections were required for operation on highways and must check six elements of safety; brakes, lights, horn, steering, wipers, and turn signals.
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17887
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The article's title refers to a hypothetical situation to better explain how tax collectors gather taxes from bankrupt and/or closed businesses. To approach this question, the author explains legislative measures in place to protect debt collectors whether they take action within 30 or 60 days.
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In their continuous search for sources of revenue, North Carolina's local governments have frequently eyed a local income tax as a possible addition to locally levied taxes. Campbell discusses the advantages and disadvantages to adding a local income tax to the existing system.
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18154
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In searching for devices to protect and enhance environmental quality in urban and suburban areas, conservationists and land-use planners in many areas are giving increasing attention to conservation easements--a land use technique for protecting the environment that lies somewhere between zoning regulations and outright free simple acquisition of property.
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18165
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This article reviews recent judicial decisions dealing with the financing of public education in light of two US Supreme Court cases, and the education of mentally handicapped children, metropolitan desegregation, and student fees for education.
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18180
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Any consideration of the local tax structure in North Carolina must deal in large measure with the ad valorem property tax. The property tax is the mainstay of local government finance, providing over 90 percent of the revenues that find their way to city and county treasuries.
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18254
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The legal and administrative problems that arise in the property taxation of mobile homes stem basically from the fact that the mobile home is used as shelter; although resembling a conventional home it can be moved. Their movability but also their attached to the land as personal property make them a contentious issue for property taxation.
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