Any penalty imposed for violation of this Article shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any civil or administrative penalty or sanction authorized by law. If a violation of this Article is a violation of a federal law or the law of another state, a conviction or acquittal under federal law or the law of another state for the same act is a bar to prosecution in this State.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-97
Other penalties
Known as the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act
The act spans §§ 90–90 (54 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 134 N.C. App. 338 - State v. White (1999)
Most recently applied in 249 N.C. App. 361 - Saunders v. ADP TotalSource Fi Xi, Inc. (September 2016)
1971, c. 919, s. 1.
How often courts cite this section
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.
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.