Person from whom effective consent may be obtained
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 170 N.C. App. 299 - State v. Hernandez (2005)
Most recently applied in 204 N.C. App. 170 - State v. Toledo (May 2010)
1973, c. 1286, 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.
The consent needed to justify a search and seizure under G.S. 15A-221 must be given:
(1) By the person to be searched;
(2) By the registered owner of a vehicle to be searched or by the person in apparent control of its operation and contents at the time the consent is given;
(3) By a person who by ownership or otherwise is reasonably apparently entitled to give or withhold consent to a search of premises.
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.