The General Statutes of North Carolina is the current code of all permanent North Carolina law of a general nature. It was adopted in 1943 and is updated annually by the laws passed during each legislative session. A new edition of the statutes is published biennially and kept up to date in between editions by interim supplements. Superseded (or outdated) statutes and codes are available for researching how a statute read in earlier years.
Note: The Legislative Library's collection is incomplete. Several cumulative supplements and some pre-1943 code editions are missing.
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Statutory Codifications with Abbreviations
Potter's Revisal (1821, 1827)............................. P.R.
Revised Statutes (1837).....................................R.S.
Revised Code (1854)..........................................R.C.
Code of Civil Procedure (1868)............................C.C.P.
Code (1883).....................................................Code
Revisal of 1905..................................................Rev.
Consolidated Statutes (1919, 1924)....................C.S.
North Carolina General Statutes (1943)................G.S.