Publications

This bulletin reviews the laws, regulations, and standards that apply to the offices to North Carolina's registers of deeds, including those that apply to electronic records. Rules for electronic records are only now taking shape, and this bulletin considers some questions to which the answers are not yet entirely clear.

This bulletin discusses the legal issues that North Carolina public employers should consider before they use the Internet to conduct or supplement background checks of prospective employees.

This bulletin eliminates confusion surrounding tax foreclosures by debunking ten popular myths about the process.

The economic recession that began in 2008 continues to have a profound effect on housing and other forms of land development. Faced with a continuing recession in 2010, the General Assembly took further action to provide relief for developers whose projects have been delayed. New legislation was enacted to extend these permit approvals for an additional year. Local governments were, however,...