Infraction defined; sanctions
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 667 F. Supp. 2d 591 - Bostic v. Rodriguez (2009)
Most recently applied in State v. Berrier (March 2019)
1985, c. 764, 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) An infraction is a noncriminal violation of law not punishable by imprisonment. Unless otherwise provided by law, the sanction for a person found responsible for an infraction is a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). The proceeds of penalties for infractions are payable to the county in which the infraction occurred for the use of the public schools.
(b) The procedure for disposition of infractions is as provided in Article 66 of Chapter 15A of the General Statutes.
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.