Apex, NC

Apex requires odd-numbered addresses to water lawns Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and even-numbered addresses Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, every week, year-round: no shortage…

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance allows artificial turf as a grass substitute only where the Planning Director finds natural vegetation impractical, and bans it in landscape…

Apex requires yard waste to be separated from household garbage and placed loose, not bagged or containerized, at the curb for weekly town composting collection.

Apex requires a Tree Removal and/or Pond Drainage Permit from the Planning Department before cutting trees to facilitate development, under UDO Sec. 2.3.15.

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance requires all new landscaping on developed sites to be native or adaptive plant species reflecting the surrounding environment, with a stricter…

Turfgrass, weeds, vines, or briars over eight inches anywhere in Apex are a declared public nuisance, and vacant lots must be mowed to four inches three times a year by set May, July…

North Carolina makes water reuse, including captured rainwater, official state policy, and residential rain barrels used for outdoor irrigation are permitted statewide without a state…

Apex Town Code makes it unlawful to keep an animal or bird whose frequent or long continued noise disturbs the comfort and repose of neighbors, enforced as a misdemeanor under state…

Apex bans plainly audible noise that disturbs neighbors during nighttime hours, defined as 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., covering loud music, nighttime construction, and trash pickup or…

Apex bars construction noise in residential and business districts on weekday evenings, most of Saturday, and all Sunday and major holidays, unless the building inspector approves the…

Apex bans car stereos, radios, or other sound systems audible from 50 feet on public streets or at a private residence, and requires vehicle exhausts to run through a functioning…

Amplified outdoor sound on Apex, NC public property, streets, sidewalks, public vehicular areas, beyond set noise distance limits requires an on-site Apex Police Department permit, and…

Apex bans emission of unreasonably loud sound from any source under Town Code § 14-31, but exempts light-industrial and tech/flex zoned facilities from the nighttime garbage-collection…

Wake County Code §92.04(A)(2) exempts lawn care equipment and agricultural activities from the noise pollution ordinance during DAYTIME HOURS (7 a.m. - 11 p.m.). There is no…

Apex, North Carolina designates the entire town a bird sanctuary, making it unlawful to trap, hunt, shoot or kill native wild birds within town limits.

Apex, North Carolina bans keeping, breeding, or possessing exotic or non-native venomous animals anywhere within town limits, with only narrow institutional exceptions.

Apex bans keeping livestock and male chickens within town limits, but hens, horses, ponies, rabbits, and small neutered miniature pigs are allowed.

Apex adopted the Wake County Animal Control Ordinance as its own animal law in 1994. A cat is 'at large' unless restrained: on the owner's property under control, on a leash of ten…

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance requires veterinary clinics and animal hospitals in the O&I, B1, PC, TF, and MEC-CZ districts to operate inside a soundproof building with no odors…

Apex enforces the Wake County Animal Control Ordinance's leash and restraint rules: dogs off the owner's property must be on a leash no longer than ten feet, or they're legally at…

Apex requires pet grooming, day spa, and daycare businesses to operate entirely indoors, serve only companion animals, skip overnight boarding, and hold all required federal, state…

Apex has no town-wide spay/neuter mandate for dogs or cats. Its only mandatory-neuter rule is narrower: a miniature pig kept as a household pet must be neutered after eight weeks old…

Wake County has no breed-specific ban; instead it regulates individual dogs declared dangerous or potentially dangerous, requiring constant restraint, warning signs, sterilization and…

Beekeeping in Wake County is governed primarily by North Carolina state law, not by Wake County. NCGS Chapter 106, Article 55 (Bees and Honey) is administered by the NC Department of…

Apex allows licensed family child care homes as a home occupation, but caps floor area at 25% of the dwelling (or 500 sq. ft.) and limits enrollment to the number the state permits…

Apex caps home-based businesses at 25% of a dwelling's floor area or 500 square feet, whichever is less, and limits on-premises retail sale of homemade goods to the RA and RR…

Apex, NC caps home business signs at 12 by 12 inches on the house, with a bigger yard sign only on large lots, and requires a permit.

Home occupations in unincorporated Wake County can't create objectionable traffic and can't let customers come to the house to buy goods, under UDO §4-72-1(C) and §4-72-4(C).

North Carolina has no cottage food law in the usual sense: there is no statutory sales cap, no annual gross-receipts ceiling, and no permit fee. Instead the state treats a home kitchen…

In Apex's residential districts, an accessory apartment (Apex's term for an ADU) must stay under the same ownership as the principal single-family home: it can't be sold or conveyed…

Apex allows one accessory apartment per single-family home, attached or detached, capped by UDO size limits, but requires it stay in the same ownership as the principal home in…

Apex requires detached carports to stay at least 5 feet from side and rear property lines, 10 feet from the main house, and out of the front yard unless set back 60 feet, per the…

Apex prohibits overnight parking from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on six named streets, and separately bans RVs, trailers, and boats overnight in town-owned lots.

Apex's UDO requires multi-family and apartment projects to install EV-Ready and EV charging spaces under Table 8.3-9, with an affordable-housing exemption and a 10-space minimum…

Apex limits designated loading zones to 15 minutes of loading and unloading only, 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and requires vehicles to run their 4-way flashers the entire time.

Apex bans parking within 15 feet of driveways, crosswalks, and fire hydrants, and requires vehicles to park with the curb-side wheel to the curb: never against traffic. Violations…

Apex prohibits parking any RV, trailer, or boat overnight in town-owned or leased parking lots, defined as 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., under the general parking ordinance in Chapter 20.

When the Town of Apex has a vehicle towed, section 20-39 requires notice to the registered owner within 24 hours for a North Carolina plate and 72 hours for an out-of-state one, and…

Apex, North Carolina, makes it unlawful to let a motor vehicle become "abandoned" on public or private property, with separate thresholds for town land, private land, and public…

Any new driveway or expanded driveway that ties into an NCDOT-maintained road in unincorporated Wake County requires an NCDOT Driveway Permit under 19A NCAC 02B .0610 and the NCDOT…

Apex fences must use wood, stone, brick, block, or wrought iron; plywood, sheet metal, and concrete slabs are banned, and barbed wire is restricted to farms and livestock.

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance caps freestanding fences and walls at 7 feet, holds front-yard fences to 48 inches, bars plywood, particleboard, and sheet-metal fencing, and…

Apex requires a building permit and a licensed engineer's certification for retaining walls with more than 5 feet of cumulative vertical relief within 50 feet, and caps single-family…

Fences that primarily enclose the perimeter of a lot in unincorporated Wake County are exempt from the Land Use Permit otherwise required for construction and structures.

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance lets above-ground and in-ground pools sit no closer than 5 feet from a side or rear property line, the same accessory-structure setback that…

Apex, NC treats hot tubs and spas as single-family recreational accessory uses: they must meet the state building code's safety barrier rules, sit at least 5 feet from side or rear lot…

Apex bans backyard campfires unless kept at least 25 feet from any structure and property line, capped at four square feet, and ringed with two tiers of brick under Town Code § 9-48.

Apex bans all open burning and outdoor burning within town limits unless specifically permitted by ordinance, covering burn barrels, refuse fires, and yard debris; violations are…

Apex prohibits firing or discharging fireworks anywhere in town without a permit from the town council, treating it as a noise violation punishable as a misdemeanor under state law.

Smoke alarms in Wake County dwellings follow the NC Residential Code §R314 and the NC Fire Code §907. Homes built or substantially renovated on or after June 30, 1999 must have a smoke…

North Carolina regulates propane storage statewide under G.S. Chapter 119, Article 5. The Board of Agriculture adopts a code of safety, NFPA 58 via 02 NCAC 38 .0700, governing the…

North Carolina vests statewide wildfire response and burn ban authority in the Commissioner of Agriculture and the State Forester, whose declared bans override local burn permits.

Short-term rental guests in unincorporated Wake County are subject to Chapter 92 of the Wake County Code (adopted 12-4-2023). §92.05(D) singles out playing radios, stereos, TVs…

Wake County levies a 6% Room Occupancy Tax on the gross receipts from rental of any room, lodging or accommodation furnished by a hotel, motel, inn, tourist camp, Airbnb, VRBO or…

Wake County itself does not issue a single short-term rental permit for unincorporated areas: the Wake County Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) regulates homestays and tourist homes…

Apex's UDO bans permanent illuminated tubing and string lights on trees, rooflines, and building walls, but carves out an explicit exception for reasonable, customary holiday…

Apex's zoning code bans billboards, exposed LED signs, and changeable-copy signs outright in every zoning district, with narrow exceptions for gas price displays, menu boards, and…

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance caps window signage at 25% of total window area per facade on non-residential buildings, and requires temporary window signs to be mounted on the…

In Apex, non-commercial yard and garage sale signs on residential property are exempt from the town's sign-permit, size, and duration limits, but they can't be placed in the public…

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance prohibits billboards, pole signs, and other off-premise advertising in every zoning district, so no freeway-facing billboard can be erected…

North Carolina law permits political signs in state highway rights-of-way during election periods with size and timing restrictions.

Apex's home occupation rules cap vehicle work at one vehicle in a standard parking space, ban commercial trucks and wreckers, and forbid any equipment that produces noise, vibration…

Apex's UDO classifies tattoo parlors as a distinct commercial use tied to North Carolina tattooing law, and recognizes body piercing only as an accessory activity to a tattoo parlor…

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance requires vape and tobacco stores to locate at least 1,000 feet from any public or private school, a locational standard layered on top of normal…

Apex, NC pawn shops must follow the North Carolina Pawnbrokers Modernization Act and cannot locate within 1,000 feet of another pawn shop, tattoo parlor, or adult establishment under…

Apex requires posted signage, a police report, and a fast release window before a tow company can nonconsensually tow a vehicle from private lots in town.

Wake County requires a county license from the Tax Collector before operating a massage parlor, health salon or physical culture studio, with approval turning on the applicant's moral…

Wake County requires sexually oriented businesses to win a Special Use Permit and meet strict 1,000-2,000 foot spacing rules from schools, churches, homes and residential zones.

Apex bans consuming or possessing open malt beverages and unfortified wine on public streets and town property, with a carve-out for the Downtown Apex Social District.

Apex bans habitually loafing or loitering on streets and sidewalks that blocks passage to a business or private property; officers must warn first, then arrest for continued violations.

Apex pedestrians crossing outside a marked or unmarked intersection crosswalk must yield to all vehicles on the roadway, under Town Code Chapter 20.

Apex, North Carolina requires a town permit before anyone may beg on a public street or public place, with an exemption for church, religious or charitable donation requests.

Apex allows skateboarding on sidewalks with due caution and a 10 mph limit, but bans it outright on sidewalks along stretches of North Salem and Chatham Streets downtown.

Apex prohibits using, consuming, or possessing any narcotic drug, hallucinogen, or other controlled substance in any town park without a valid physician's prescription, making…

Apex bans smoking, vapor products, and tobacco use in all town parks, greenways, and park property outside posted designated smoking areas, enforced as a $50 infraction.

Apex requires commercial, industrial, and some residential customers to use town-specified dumpsters, with the town controlling screening, placement, size, and number under Town Code §…

Apex requires garbage cans out by 5 a.m. on collection day and removed from curb by 7 p.m.; no cans may sit out on Sunday.

Apex, NC picks up appliances, water heaters, furniture and other bulk items curbside for a fee set by the town's current fee schedule.

Apex collects yard waste curbside weekly, year-round, but only for residents inside the town's corporate limits: commercial, industrial, and institutional properties get no service…

Apex requires garbage cans at curbside by 5 a.m. on collection day, removed by 7 p.m., and bars any container left out front on Sundays.

Apex requires curbside garbage containers out by 5 a.m. and removed by 7 p.m. on collection day, with no Sunday display.

Apex Town Code bans depositing garbage in any street, alley, public place, or private property outside a permitted container; violators face a misdemeanor charge under North Carolina…

North Carolina prohibits disposal of specific recyclable materials in landfills statewide under G.S. 130A-309.10, applying uniformly to all residents, businesses, and waste haulers.

Apex town parks close nightly, most at 10:00 p.m. and some at 9:00 p.m. or sunset, and Town Code makes it unlawful to enter or remain in a park after posted closing hours at the main…

North Carolina permits cities and counties to enact juvenile curfews under general police power but requires constitutional safeguards under state law.

Apex's traffic code bans stopping, standing, or parking in a marked bike lane on any public street, with a narrow exception allowing a driver to pause briefly for actual passenger or…

Apex caps sidewalk scooter speed at 10 mph, requires yielding to pedestrians, and bans riding scooters on sidewalks along North Salem Street and Chatham Street downtown under Town Code…

North Carolina runs two entirely separate regimes, and which one you are in is decided by five miles per hour. A golf cart is defined as a vehicle not capable of exceeding 20 mph, and…

Apex bans building or leaving structures, vehicles, or stored items on streets and sidewalks, with narrow carve-outs for merchandise display, baby carriages, and permitted downtown…

Apex property owners must keep the sidewalk abutting their lot in good, safe repair and free of debris, trash, ice, and snow, or the Town can do the work and lien the property for the…

Apex requires a written irrigation encroachment permit before anyone installs or maintains an irrigation system in a street right-of-way; the Department of Engineering and Construction…

Apex requires a permit from the code enforcement officer before installing, altering, or adding any electrical wiring, device, appliance, or equipment, under the town's adopted North…

Apex builders must notify the code enforcement officer and receive approval before footings, before structural concrete pours, before framing is concealed, and again at final…

Apex requires a permit before any alteration, removal, demolition, or other building operation begins, with detailed plans required for jobs over $30,000 and permits voided if work…

Apex requires a permit from the plumbing inspector before any plumbing or gas work is installed, altered, or added, under the state-adopted North Carolina Plumbing Code, enforced by…

Apex requires a town permit, issued by the Chief of Police, before any parade, picket line, or group demonstration of ten or more people on town streets, sidewalks, or public grounds…

Organized athletic leagues, fundraisers, and commercial activity in Apex parks and greenways require a permit from the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department…

Apex regulates street fairs and festivals under its special events ordinance: vendors may sell only with the event organizer's permission inside the marked event boundary, and wheeled…

Apex allows sidewalk food-service tables only in the Central Business District, with a mandatory 36-inch clear path and Planning Department approval.

In Apex, North Carolina, delivery vehicles serving commercial or business establishments may not deliver, unload, or idle their engines between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.; facilities in…

Apex requires bars, nightclubs, wine bars, and taprooms to keep outdoor operations at least 100 feet from residential zoning and bans outdoor amplified entertainment next to…

Apex, North Carolina bars sounding a horn or signal device on a vehicle that is not moving, except as a danger signal, and bans creating harsh or unreasonably loud horn noise or…

Apex requires the exhaust of any stationary internal combustion or steam engine, including portable and standby generators, to be discharged through a muffler that prevents loud or…

New homes and other structures in Apex's mapped flood hazard areas must be built at least 2 feet above the base flood elevation.

Apex prohibits any non-stormwater discharge into its municipal storm sewer system and bans illicit drainage connections, enforcing violations with civil penalties running up to $500+…

Apex requires an approved erosion control plan and a town grading permit before any land-disturbing activity uncovers more than 20,000 square feet, inside the corporate limits and the…

Apex requires a floodplain development permit before any development in a Special Flood Hazard Area, inside town limits or its extraterritorial jurisdiction.

The Coastal Area Management Act, N.C.G.S. 113A-100 through 113A-134.3, requires CAMA permits for development in 20 coastal counties and Areas of Environmental Concern, preempting local…

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance exempts bona fide farms, as defined by North Carolina law, from all UDO zoning, site plan, and development requirements, protecting agricultural…

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance exempts bona fide farms from all town zoning rules under UDO Sec. 1.4.4, covering both the corporate limits and Apex's extraterritorial…

Apex's UDO protects any tree 18 inches or larger in caliper, except pines, as a 'Specimen Tree,' triggering preservation requirements in site plan and subdivision review across town…

Apex has no separate heritage-tree registry; instead, new development must survey and preserve 'specimen trees', any non-pine tree 18 inches or larger in caliper, within the required…

New developments along Apex thoroughfares must install streetscape buffer trees in linear or clustered plantings, giving each large canopy tree at least 350 square feet of pervious…

Apex's UDO defines front, side and rear yard setbacks by measurement rule, then sets minimum building-to-building spacing for multi-family, apartment, congregate-living and…

Single-family homes in Apex's Rural Residential district are capped at 36 feet under the Unified Development Ordinance's dimensional table, measured from finished floor to the roof's…

Residential lots in Wake County's non-watershed zoning districts may not exceed 30 percent impervious surface coverage under the UDO's dimensional standards table.

Apex's Small Town Character Overlay District imposes mandatory building placement, massing, and façade standards on new construction and redevelopment in downtown Apex, capping front…

Apex allows residential yard sales without a permit, but caps them at two consecutive days, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and no more than four sales per address each calendar year under the…

Apex requires a police department permit for transient and mobile food vending, bans it in residential zones, and imposes a separate right-of-way permit with strict setbacks from…

Apex requires a Town police department permit before anyone operates a mobile food unit, with fixed operating hours, zoning limits, and a separate right-of-way permit for street…

Apex requires a police-issued permit for any pushcart or mobile food unit, and a separate right-of-way permit with strict spacing rules if the cart serves customers from a public…

Apex requires owners of vacant lots to cut weeds, grass, and noxious growth to four inches by May 31, July 31, and September 30 each year, or face daily civil penalties.

Apex code enforcement can order an owner to repair a deteriorated dwelling or vacate and demolish a dilapidated one within 90 days; noncompliance lets the town placard, demolish and…

New construction and substantial improvements in Apex's mapped flood hazard areas, inside town limits and the extraterritorial jurisdiction, must have their lowest floor built at least…

Apex's open-burning ban doesn't touch your grill or smoker: charcoal, wood, propane and natural-gas cooking appliances are expressly exempt from Town Code Article IV, so no permit or…

Apex's code enforcement officer must proactively investigate dwelling conditions town-wide and keep an inventory of substandard housing, not just respond to complaints.

Apex code enforcement investigates a rental dwelling only after a petition from a public authority or at least five town residents alleging unfit conditions, triggering a formal…

Apex bars door-to-door peddling and soliciting from 8 p.m. to 9 a.m. and at any home posted "No Peddlers" or "No Solicitors," backed by a police-issued permit system.

Apex requires a police-issued permit before anyone peddles or solicits door-to-door, and bars the activity at homes before 9 a.m. or after 8 p.m.

New Apex developments must use shielded, full cutoff outdoor fixtures capped at 35 feet and 3,500 Kelvin under the Town's Unified Development Ordinance to curb light trespass onto…

Apex's Unified Development Ordinance requires site and subdivision plans to control glare and light spillover onto neighboring properties, capping fixture mounting heights and…

Apex's Minimum Housing Code (Town Code Ch. 5, Art. VII) sets fitness standards every rental dwelling must meet, sound structure, working plumbing, heat to at least 70°F, adequate…

For nonpayment of rent, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-3 requires a 10-day demand for past-due rent before the lease term is forfeited. The landlord then files summary ejectment under Article 3…

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-46 caps residential late fees on monthly rent at $15 or 5% of the monthly rent, whichever is greater, and bars charging the fee until rent is at least five days…

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-14 sets notice periods to end periodic tenancies: seven days for month-to-month, two days for week-to-week, and one month or more before the year ends for…

North Carolina law preempts local rent control. Under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-14.1, no county or city may enact, maintain, or enforce any ordinance that regulates the amount of rent…

North Carolina restricts cities from requiring residential rental registration, permits, or fees absent a specific qualifying public safety problem.

North Carolina caps a residential security deposit by tenancy length under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-51: two weeks' rent for week-to-week, one and one-half months' rent for month-to-month…

North Carolina recognizes adverse possession after 20 years of open, continuous possession under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-40, or after 7 years if the possessor holds under color of title…

Contributing historic structures in Apex's National Register Historic District cannot be relocated under the Town's Unified Development Ordinance. A historic structure outside the…

Apex's minimum housing code makes occupants responsible for exterminating insects and rodents in their own unit, but shifts that duty to the owner whenever the dwelling itself isn't…

Wake County Code §130.05 (adopted 11-9-2022, effective 12-9-2022) prohibits firearm discharge within 300 yards of any dwelling, school, church, warehouse, playground, or park without…

North Carolina issues concealed handgun permits through county sheriffs under NCGS 14-415.10 and recognizes reciprocity with many states; permitless carry is not authorized statewide.

North Carolina generally permits open carry of handguns and long guns without a permit, but local discharge ordinances and posted-property restrictions may apply under state law.

North Carolina permits transporting firearms in a vehicle, but a handgun carried concealed within reach generally requires a concealed handgun permit under NCGS 14-269 and 14-415.10.

It is unlawful in unincorporated Wake County to walk, stand, sit, lie or place an object so as to block pedestrian or vehicular passage while begging, panhandling or soliciting on the…

Home cultivation of marijuana is illegal in Wake County and statewide. Under NCGS §90-95(a)(1) it is unlawful to manufacture (which includes cultivation) any controlled substance, and…

Ground- and roof-mounted solar energy systems in unincorporated Wake County need permits, with FAA notice and a recorded decommissioning plan required for larger arrays.

North Carolina voids any deed restriction, covenant, or HOA agreement that bans, or effectively bans, solar collectors on residential property, under G.S. 22B-20. The protection covers…

North Carolina repealed its state commercial drone operator permit and knowledge test effective December 1, 2024, so commercial pilots now need only the FAA Part 107 remote pilot…

North Carolina General Statute 15A-300.1 and related laws set statewide rules for unmanned aircraft, banning drone surveillance without consent and weaponized drones, while federal law…

North Carolina has no statewide predictive scheduling law and effectively preempts local fair workweek or predictive scheduling ordinances through its Wage and Hour Act framework.

North Carolina lets exempt nonprofits run bingo and raffles under Chapter 14, Part 2's charitable-gaming statutes. Bingo requires a $200 annual license from the Alcohol Law Enforcement…

North Carolina's gambling law, N.C.G.S. § 14-292, makes it a Class 2 misdemeanor for anyone to bet money, property, or anything of value on a game of chance, whether the wager is…

North Carolina legalized sports wagering under G.S. Chapter 18C, Article 9, effective March 2024. The State Lottery Commission licenses online and in-person sportsbooks; interactive…

Under the North Carolina Planned Community Act, G.S. 47F-3-116, any assessment unpaid for 30 days or longer becomes a lien on the lot. If unpaid for 90 days or more, the association…

North Carolina's Planned Community Act requires HOAs to hold at least one association meeting each year (G.S. 47F-3-108) with 10-60 days' advance notice stating the agenda, and to give…

North Carolina law overrides certain HOA restrictions. G.S. 22B-20 voids covenants that prohibit residential solar collectors (with narrow visibility exceptions). G.S. 47F-3-121…

North Carolina suspends an HOA's power to require landscaping irrigation once the area is designated severe, extreme, or exceptional drought and a government body has imposed water…

State law strips North Carolina homeowners associations of power to block the American or state flag on a member's own lot. G.S. 47F-3-121(1) voids any covenant restriction on a flag…

North Carolina's G.S. 47F-3-107.1 requires due process before an HOA can fine an owner. A hearing must be held before the executive board or an adjudicatory panel, with notice of the…

North Carolina lets a homeowners association foreclose on a house without ever filing a lawsuit. Under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47F-3-116, an assessment unpaid for 30 days can be turned into…

North Carolina is one of the few states whose legislature expressly authorized sobriety and license checkpoints by statute. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-16.3A lets any law enforcement agency…

North Carolina never enacted an express right to record police, and it never enacted a buffer law either. What it has is a one-party consent wiretap statute: N.C. Gen. Stat. §…

North Carolina has no general stop-and-identify statute. A pedestrian stopped on the street commits no offense by declining to give a name, and the state's entire vagrancy article…

North Carolina is one of the few states that wrote consent searches into statute instead of leaving them to case law. Article 9 of Chapter 15A defines consent as a statement to the…

North Carolina has no statewide ban on plastic straws and does not authorize local governments to ban single-use plastic straws or other utensils.

Federal law sets the minimum tobacco purchase age at 21 nationwide, but North Carolina's own statute, NCGS 14-313, still sets the state age at 18, so retailers must follow the stricter…

North Carolina has not enacted a statewide flavored tobacco or flavored vape ban, and no state law authorizes local governments to ban flavored tobacco products, leaving flavor rules…

North Carolina lets any motor vehicle carry up to two spot lamps and up to two front auxiliary driving lamps, and it caps every other added lamp at 25 candlepower unless the beam is…

North Carolina has no statute telling you where a dash cam may be mounted. Part 9 of Article 3 of Chapter 20 regulates the windshield only for tint and for safety glass, and nothing in…

North Carolina has never authorised lane splitting and has never written a section that uses the phrase. The motorcycle lane statute, G.S. 20-146.1, entitles a motorcycle to the full…

North Carolina bans anything over a plate that makes part of it unreadable, and it names frames and clear covers specifically. G.S. 20-63(g) makes it an infraction to cover a plate…

North Carolina has no statute regulating radar detectors in a private passenger vehicle. The words radar and detector appear nowhere in the 868 sections of Chapter 20, the Motor…

North Carolina lets you run studded tires on any day of the year. G.S. 20-122(b) permits studs on regular and snow tires "for increased safety" so long as they project no more than one…

North Carolina allows aftermarket tint on any window except the windshield down to 35% total light transmission, with reflectance of 20% or less and no red, yellow or amber film. The…