{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-14-159.51","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-159.51","heading":"Requirements for removal of unauthorized persons.","body":"A property owner or an authorized representative of the property owner may initiate an expedited removal proceeding for the removal of an unauthorized person unlawfully occupying residential property pursuant to this Article. The complaint in the proceeding shall allege at least the following:\n(1)\tThe requesting party is the property owner or the authorized representative of the property owner.\n(2)\tThe property that is being unlawfully occupied is residential property or property used in connection with or appurtenant to residential property.\n(3)\tAn unauthorized person has entered the property after the property owner acquired the property and is remaining or residing unlawfully on the residential property of the property owner.\n(4)\tThe property was not offered or intended as an accommodation for the general public at the time the unauthorized person entered.\n(5)\tThe property owner or the authorized representative of the property owner has directed the unauthorized person to leave the residential property.\n(6)\tThe unauthorized person is not a tenant of the owner of the property being unlawfully occupied.\n(7)\tThe unauthorized person is not an owner of the property being unlawfully occupied.\n(8)\tThere is no pending litigation between the property owner and the unauthorized person related to the residential property.\n(9)\tNo other valid rental agreement or contract for deed has been entered into or formed by the property owner or a former property owner and the unauthorized person permitting the unauthorized person to occupy the residential property.\n(10)\tNo rent or other form of payment has ever been demanded of or paid by the unauthorized person to the property owner or to an authorized representative of the property owner in connection with the occupancy of the residential property. (2025-88, s. 1.)","path":["Chapter 14. Criminal Law.","SUBCHAPTER VI. CRIMINAL TRESPASS.","Article 22D. Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons from Residential Property."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_14/GS_14-159.51.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:56:32Z","sha256":"546de813154d2ebddeae0280069ddf933fe678a90432f8121669dfc33d6dfa47","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-14-159.50","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-14-159.52"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}