{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-90-210.25b","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-210.25B","heading":"Persons with criminal history.","body":"(a)\tWhen considering an application for license, permit, or registration, the Board may find that criminal conviction for sexual offense against a minor is indicative of the applicant's lack of fitness to practice funeral service.\n(b)\tFor purposes of this Article, the term \"sexual offense against a minor\" means a conviction of any of the following offenses: G.S. 14-27.23 (statutory rape of a child by an adult), G.S. 14-27.25(a) (statutory rape of a person who is 15 years of age or younger and where the defendant is at least six years older), 14-27.28 (statutory sexual offense with a child by an adult), G.S. 14-27.30 (statutory sexual offense with a person who is 15 years of age or younger and where the defendant is at least six years older), G.S. 14-190.16 (first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor), G.S. 14-190.17 (second degree sexual exploitation of a minor), G.S. 14-190.17A (third degree sexual exploitation of a minor), G.S. 14-190.18 (promoting prostitution of a minor), G.S. 14-190.19 (participating in prostitution of a minor), G.S. 14-202.1 (taking indecent liberties with children), G.S. 14-202.3 (solicitation of child by computer or certain other electronic devices to commit an unlawful sex act), G.S. 14-202.4(a) (taking indecent liberties with a student), G.S. 14-318.4(a1) (parent or caretaker commit or permit act of prostitution with or by a juvenile), or G.S. 14-318.4(a2) (commission or allowing of sexual act upon a juvenile by parent or guardian). The term shall also include a conviction of the following: any attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy to commit any of these offenses or any aiding and abetting any of these offenses. The term shall also include a conviction in another jurisdiction for an offense which if committed in this State has the same or substantially similar elements to an offense against a minor as defined by this section.\n(c)\tIf a person or entity holding a license, permit, or registration in another jurisdiction has the license revoked, suspended, or placed on probation because of a felony conviction other than those enumerated above, the board shall impose a sanction equal to or greater than to the sanction imposed by the other jurisdiction.\n(d)\tIf a person or entity holding a license, permit, or registration in another jurisdiction has the license revoked, suspended, or placed on probation because of conduct related to fitness to practice as described in G.S. 90-210.25(e), the board shall impose a sanction equal to or greater than the sanction imposed by the other jurisdiction. (2012-194, s. 71; 2015-62, s. 1(c); 2015-181, ss. 45, 47; 2025-76, s. 3.6.)","path":["Chapter 90. Medicine and Allied Occupations.","Article 13A. Practice of Funeral Service."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_90/GS_90-210.25B.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T18:12:48Z","sha256":"5698677fb7b16a07b7a0cead8aa1291cce167603e4b2d2564cbd86888cc2e76a","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-90-210.25a","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-90-210.25c"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}