N.C. Gen. Stat. § 108A-47: Limitations on payments.

No payment of assistance under this Part shall be made for the care of any person in a licensed facility that is owned or operated in whole or in part by any of the following:

(1) A member of the Social Services Commission, of any county board of social services, or of any board of county commissioners;

(2) An official or employee of the Department, unless the official or employee has been appointed temporary manager of the facility pursuant to G.S. 131E-237, or of any county department of social services;

(3) A spouse of a person designated in subdivisions (1) and (2). (1979, c. 702, s. 10; 1981, c. 275, s. 1; 1995, c. 298, s. 1; c. 535, s. 6; 2010-31, s. 10.19A(g).)