N.C. Gen. Stat. § 74F-3
Licenses required; violation
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Current — April 1, 2022
As of December 1, 2021
(1) No person shall perform or offer to perform locksmith services in this State unless the person has been licensed under the provisions of this Chapter. Every person providing locksmith services as defined under G.S. 74F-4(5) to buildings containing medical records, pharmaceutical records, educational records, criminal records, voting records, tax records, legal records, or personnel records, including any person providing locksmith services who is employed by or working for a school, college, university, hospital, company, institution, or government facility shall be licensed in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.
(1) No person shall perform or offer to perform locksmith services in this State unless the person has been licensed under the provisions of this Chapter. Every person providing locksmith services as defined under G.S. 74F-4(5) to buildings containing medical records, pharmaceutical records, educational records, criminal records, voting records, tax records, legal records, or personnel records, including any person providing locksmith services who is employed by or working for a school, college, university, hospital, company, institution, or government facility shall be licensed in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.
(2) Unless the conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, a violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor for the first offense. A second or subsequent offense is a Class I felony.
(2) Unless the conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, a violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor for the first offense. A second or subsequent offense is a Class I felony.
History
(2001-369, s. 1; 2013-370, ss. 1, 2.)
Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2013-370, s. 1, effective October 1, 2013, added "violation" in the section heading; and added the second sentence in subsection (a).
Session Laws 2013-370, s. 2, effective December 1, 2013, redesignated the formerly undesignated provisions of this section as present subsections (a) and (b); and rewrote subsection (b), which formerly read "A violation of this section is a Class 3 misdemeanor unless the conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment." For applicability, see editor's note.
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.