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Bona Fide Farms and Development Regulations

Code Officials Handbook: A Legal Guide to Administering Building and Property Codes in North Carolina

North Carolina Notary Public Manual (2026)

Abuse, Neglect, Dependency, and Termination of Parental Rights Proceedings in North Carolina, 2025 Edition

Should States Put Food Back on the Table? An Examination of Food in the Sales Tax Base

Iryna's Law and Pretrial Release

Setting Conditions of Release

Magistrates' Procedure in Small Claims Cases

Protections for Military Servicemembers in North Carolina Power of Sale Foreclosures

2025 North Carolina Legislation Related to Planning and Development

Rule 17 Guardians ad Litem for Respondents in Abuse, Neglect, Dependency, and Termination of Parental Rights Proceedings: Frequently Asked Questions

Delinquency Law: Original Juvenile Jurisdiction and Juvenile Jurisdiction Over Parents, Guardians, and Custodians

How Are We Doing? Evaluating Manager and Board Performance, Second Edition

Applications for Process before North Carolina Magistrates

Opportunities Online: Effectively Marketing Employability Skills to Young Adults

Creating and Managing a Capital Improvement Plan

Driver's License Revocations, Restorations, and Limited Driving Privileges in North Carolina, 2025 Edition

North Carolina Sentencing Handbook with Felony, Misdemeanor, and DWI Sentencing Grids, 2025 Edition

Squatters Beware: Navigating North Carolina's Expedited Removal Law

Strategic Planning for Elected Officials, Second Edition

2026 Property Tax Calendar

Stages of Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases: From Report to Final Disposition, 2025 Edition

Detention of Noncitizens: Understanding North Carolina Law on Immigration Detainers

Obtaining a Court Order for the Provision of Protective and Emergency Services for a Disabled Adult, November 2025 Edition

Promising Practices for Timely Completion of Building Inspections in North Carolina

Capacity to Proceed in Criminal Cases in North Carolina

Contracts between Cities and Sheriffs (and Counties) for Law Enforcement

2025–26 Finance Calendar of Duties for City and County Officials

Archive: Sentencing Charts for Impaired Driving Offenses Sentenced Pursuant to G.S. 20-179 [Applicable to offenses committed before October 1, 2013]

North Carolina Pattern Jury Instructions for Civil, Criminal, and Motor Vehicle Negligence Cases, 2025 Edition (eBook)

Confidential Informants in North Carolina: Discovery, Audio/Video Recordings, and Motions to Reveal Identity

A Guide to Civil Litigation for Non-Attorneys in Local Government

Probation Violations in North Carolina, Second Edition, 2025

Local Boards of Health in North Carolina

Consolidated Human Services Boards in North Carolina

Consolidated Human Services Boards cover

North Carolina Crimes: A Guidebook on the Elements of Crime, Eighth Edition, 2025

Dangerous-Dog Hearings and Procedures: A Guide for Local Governments

Using AI to Strengthen the North Carolina Benchmarking Project

Breaking Down Social Capital: What Is It and What Does It Mean for Community Development Organizations?

Disclosing Adult Protective Services Information and Records: The Legal Framework in North Carolina

The Law of Vehicle Seizure and Forfeiture in North Carolina

North Carolina Benchmarking Project Report 2025: Outcomes and Strategies

Double Jeopardy in North Carolina

Arrest Warrant and Indictment Forms, 2025 Edition

County and Municipal Government in North Carolina, 2025 Edition

Tax Foreclosures: An Overview

Artificial Intelligence and Community Mediation—Views from Six Experts

Court Oversight Tools as Applicable to Trusts

North Carolina Trial Judges’ Bench Book, District Court, Family Law, 2024 Edition

North Carolina Benchmarking Project Report 2026: Employee Retention

Fundamentals of Property Tax Collection Law in North Carolina, Second Edition

Arrest Warrant and Indictment Forms, 2026 Edition

Index of Select Emergency Management Resources for North Carolina Local Governments

Reference Guide for Local Government Public Officials

Errata—North Carolina Crimes: A Guidebook on the Elements of Crime, Eighth Edition, 2025

2016 Supplement to the 2015 Punishment Chart for North Carolina Crimes and Motor Vehicle Offenses (Free PDF)

Errata–Update to Incorporation of a North Carolina Town, Third Edition (Free PDF)

Emerging Issues in Confrontation Litigation: A Supplement to Crawford v. Washington: Confrontation One Year Later

Errata—North Carolina Crimes: A Guidebook on the Elements of Crime, Eighth Edition, 2025

Errata–Update to Incorporation of a North Carolina Town, Third Edition (Free PDF)

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Local Government Budgeting: A Guide for North Carolina Elected Officials

The adoption of a budget is one of the most important activities undertaken by local government officials each year. The budget serves as the elected board's primary opportunity to establish community priorities and as a tool for planning community services and programs, communicating priorities, and properly managing finances. The budget process, however, with its big numbers, multiple...

Rule 404(b): Evidence of Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts

The admissibility of Rule 404(b) evidence is one of the most litigated evidence issues. The rule pertains to evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts. This bulletin explains Rule 404(b) and provides a framework for analyzing admissibility issues regarding other crimes, wrongs, or acts evidence

North Carolina Prosecutors’ Trial Manual, Fifth Edition, August 2012 (E-book)

This manual is no longer for sale. For access to the content regarding the criminal procedure that governs the prosecution of crimes in North Carolina, please visit our new digital knowledge base: NC PRO. This new tool features not only updated information from this manual but incorporates other reference...

Remote Testimony and Related Procedures Impacting a Criminal Defendant's Confrontation Rights

Since the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Crawford v. Washington, and even more so after its ruling in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, interest has been growing in the use of remote testimony as a method to satisfy the Confrontation Clause when a witness cannot be present at trial. Almost all recent proposals for implementation of remote testimony have called for remote two-way...

Magistrate Procedures for Ordering Civil License Revocations and the Seizure and Impoundment of Motor Vehicles

This bulletin focuses on the procedures governing civil license revocation and the seizure and impoundment of motor vehicles. This discussion is flanked at the beginning by a review of police processing procedures in implied consent cases and at the end by two appendixes. Appendix A contains Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) forms referenced in the discussion, and Appendix B presents...

HUB Participation in Building Construction Contracting by N.C. Local Governments: Statutory Requirements and Constitutional Limitations

This bulletin focuses on the legal requirements for Historically Underutilized Business [HUB] participation in local government contracting: Part I outlines the statutory requirements under North Carolina law for HUB participation in public construction and repair projects, and Part II examines the constitutional limitations placed on such programs by federal court jurisprudence. To have...

Evaluation of Driver Education Teaching Mode in North Carolina: Final Report

Executive Summary

Statistics for Public Administration: Practical Uses for Better Decision Making, Second Edition

This publication is available for purchase directly from the publisher, the International City/County Manager's Association

Click here to view an excerpt.Click here to view the preface and table of contents. This book offers research design and basic applied statistics to demonstrate how they can help public managers do their jobs better and become educated...

Evaluation of the 2012 North Carolina Super Summer Meals Pilot

One in four children in North Carolina is now considered at risk of hunger or food insecurity, defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a lack of access to enough food for an active, healthy life and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods. Two years ago, Governor Bev Perdue announced her intention to bring the No Kid Hungry campaign, a rapidly growing...