Short title; purpose
Known as the False Claims Act
The act spans §§ 1-605 to 1-618 (14 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case United States ex rel. King v. Solvay S.A. (2011)
Most recently applied in Affinity Living Grp., LLC v. Starstone Specialty Ins. Co. (October 2018)
2009-554, s. 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) This Article shall be known and may be cited as the False Claims Act.
(b) The purpose of this Article is to deter persons from knowingly causing or assisting in causing the State to pay claims that are false or fraudulent and to provide remedies in the form of treble damages and civil penalties when money is obtained from the State by reason of a false or fraudulent claim.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.