{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-122c-65","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 122C-65","heading":"Offenses relating to clients.","body":"(a)\tFor the protection of clients receiving treatment or habilitation in a 24-hour facility, it is unlawful for any individual who is not a developmentally disabled client in a facility:\n(1)\tTo assist, advise, or solicit, or to offer to assist, advise, or solicit a client of a facility to leave without authority;\n(2)\tTo transport or to offer to transport a client of a facility to or from any place without the facility's authority;\n(3)\tTo receive or to offer to receive a minor client of a facility into any place, structure, building, or conveyance for the purpose of engaging in any act that would constitute a sex offense, or to solicit a minor client of a facility to engage in any act that would constitute a sex offense;\n(4)\tTo hide an individual who has left a facility without authority; or\n(5)\tTo engage in, or offer to engage in an act with a client of a facility that would constitute a sex offense.\n(b)\tViolation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1899, c. 1, s. 53; Rev., s. 3694; C.S., s. 6171; 1963, c. 1184, ss. 1, 6; 1985, c. 589, s. 2; 1989, c. 625, s. 11; 1993, c. 539, s. 921; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)","path":["Chapter 122C. Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Act of 1985.","Article 3. Clients' Rights and Advance Instruction.","Part 1. Client's Rights."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_122C/GS_122C-65.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T18:19:22Z","sha256":"b8edef99b6e93fc755d316377e0d28051608444014f9aff04bf4986d2a0cf89b","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-122c-64","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-122c-66"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}