Research Guides: North Carolina Legal Research: NC Statutes

General Statutes of North Carolina Annotated
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Call Number: North Carolina Collection KFN7429 .N67
This is the official version, published by Lexis. At the beginning of each volume is a message written by the North Carolina General Assembly Legislative Services Office stating that the general statutes were published under its supervision. An unofficial version will not contain this message.
West’s North Carolina General Statutes Annotated
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Call Number: North Carolina Collection KFN7430 1943 .A4
The unofficial version of the North Carolina General Statutes. Use for research purposes only, and be sure to check any language against the official Lexis print version.

North Carolina General Statues
Free online version. Please note, even though it’s provided by the North Carolina General Assembly, it is not an official version of the North Carolina General Statutes. Be sure to check the language against the Lexis official print version of the statutes.

Historical

Sometimes in the course of your legal research, you need to know what the law was at a certain point in the past (for example, if you are representing a client who was charged with a crime before the law was amended).

Campbell Law Library has superseded statutes in remote storage. Contact a librarian to have the volume retrieved for you.

Historical Statutes on Westlaw
From 1999. As always with an online resource, you will want to check it with the official print version to ensure its accuracy. With historical bills, it’s especially important to check the dates and whether the changes were incorporated from a later supplement.

Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources
Contains the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charter, law dictionaries, digests and more.