If any person shall engage in, or offer to or attempt to, engage in the business or practice of debt adjusting, or if any person shall hereafter act, offer to act, or attempt to act as a debt adjuster, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-424
Engaging, etc., in business of debt adjusting a misdemeanor
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case In the Matter of Mark Andrew Brunty (2015)
Most recently applied in In re Bacon (April 2017)
1963, c. 394, s. 2; 1969, c. 1224, s. 6; 1993, c. 539, s. 290; 1994, Ex
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