North Carolina General Statutes
Article 5 - Maternal and Child Health and Women's Health.
§ 130A-131.9D - Effect of compliance with maintenance standard.

130A-131.9D. Effect of compliance with maintenance standard.
Any owner of a residential housing unit constructed prior to 1978 who is sued by a current or former occupant seeking damages for injuries allegedly arising from exposure to lead-based paint or lead-contaminated dust, shall not be deemed liable (i) for any injuries sustained by that occupant after the owner first complied with the maintenance standard defined under G.S. 130A-131.7 provided the owner has repeated the steps provided for in the maintenance standard annually for units in which children of less than six years of age have resided or regularly visited within the past year and obtained a certificate of compliance under G.S. 130A-131.9E annually during such occupancy; or (ii) if the owner is able to show by other documentation that compliance with the maintenance standard has been maintained during the period when the injuries were sustained; or (iii) if the owner is able to show that the unit was lead-safe housing containing no lead-based paint hazards during the period when the injuries were sustained. (1997-443, s. 15.30(b); 1998-209, s. 4.)

Structure North Carolina General Statutes

North Carolina General Statutes

Chapter 130A - Public Health

Article 5 - Maternal and Child Health and Women's Health.

§ 130A-124 - Department to establish maternal and child health program.

§ 130A-125 - Screening of newborns for metabolic and other hereditary and congenital disorders.

§ 130A-126 - Rule-making authority for birth - three-year-old early intervention program.

§ 130A-127 - Department to establish program.

§ 130A-128.1 - Department to provide free educational information about umbilical cord stem cells and umbilical cord blood banking.

§ 130A-128A - Recodified as GS130A-128.1 by Session Laws 2009-570, s43.1, effective August 28, 2009.

§ 130A-129 - Department to establish program.

§ 130A-130 - Duties of local health departments.

§ 130A-131 - Council on Sickle Cell Syndrome; appointment; expenses; terms.

§ 130A-131.1 - Council membership.

§ 130A-131.2 - Council role.

§ 130A-131.5 - Commission to adopt rules.

§ 130A-131.7 - Definitions.

§ 130A-131.8 - Laboratory reports.

§ 130A-131.9 - Examination and testing.

§ 130A-131.9A - Investigation to identify lead poisoning hazards.

§ 130A-131.9B - Notification.

§ 130A-131.9C - Abatement and remediation.

§ 130A-131.9D - Effect of compliance with maintenance standard.

§ 130A-131.9E - Certificate of evidence of compliance.

§ 130A-131.9F - Discrimination in financing.

§ 130A-131.9G - Resident responsibilities.

§ 130A-131.9H - Application fees for certificates of compliance.

§ 130A-131.10 - Manner of disposition of remains of pregnancies.

§ 130A-131.15A - Department to establish program.

§ 130A-131.16 - Birth defects monitoring program established; definitions.

§ 130A-131.17 - Confidentiality of information; research.

§ 130A-131.25 - Office of Women's Health established.

§ 130A-131.30 - Healthy Out-of-School Program established.

§ 130A-131.31 - Definitions.

§ 130A-131.32 - Program development.

§ 130A-131.33 - Certificate; program information.

§ 130A-131.34 - Certificate renewal.

§ 130A-131.35 - List of programs.