42-14.1. Rent control.
No county or city as defined by G.S. 160A-1 may enact, maintain, or enforce any ordinance or resolution which regulates the amount of rent to be charged for privately owned, single-family or multiple unit residential or commercial rental property. This section shall not be construed as prohibiting any county or city, or any authority created by a county or city for that purpose, from:
(1) Regulating in any way property belonging to that city, county, or authority;
(2) Entering into agreements with private persons which regulate the amount of rent charged for subsidized rental properties; or
(3) Enacting ordinances or resolutions restricting rent for properties assisted with Community Development Block Grant Funds. (1987, c. 458, s. 1.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 42 - Landlord and Tenant
Article 1 - General Provisions.
§ 42-1 - Lessor and lessee not partners.
§ 42-2 - Attornment unnecessary on conveyance of reversions, etc.
§ 42-3 - Term forfeited for nonpayment of rent.
§ 42-4 - Recovery for use and occupation.
§ 42-5 - Rent apportioned, where lease terminated by death.
§ 42-6 - Rents, annuities, etc., apportioned, where right to payment terminated by death.
§ 42-7 - In lieu of emblements, farm lessee holds out year, with rents apportioned.
§ 42-8 - Grantees of reversion and assigns of lease have reciprocal rights under covenants.
§ 42-9 - Agreement to rebuild, how construed in case of fire.
§ 42-10 - Tenant not liable for accidental damage.
§ 42-11 - Willful destruction by tenant misdemeanor.
§ 42-12 - Lessee may surrender, where building destroyed or damaged.
§ 42-13 - Wrongful surrender to other than landlord misdemeanor.
§ 42-14 - Notice to quit in certain tenancies.
§ 42-14.2 - Death, illness, or conviction of certain crimes not a material fact.
§ 42-14.3 - Notice of conversion of manufactured home communities.
§ 42-14.4 - Notice to State Bar of attorney default on lease.
§ 42-14.5 - Foreseeability not created by criminal record; no duty to screen.