The General Statutes of North Carolina is the current code of all permanent North Carolina law of a general nature.  It was adopted in 1943 and is updated annually by the laws passed during each legislative session.  A new edition of the statutes is published biennially and kept up to date in between editions by interim supplements.  Superseded (or outdated) statutes and codes are available for researching how a statute read in earlier years.

Note: The Legislative Library’s collection is incomplete. Several cumulative supplements and some pre-1943 code editions are missing.

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Statutory Codifications with Abbreviations

Potter’s Revisal (1821, 1827)…………………………. P.R.
Revised Statutes (1837)…………………………………..R.S.
Revised Code (1854)………………………………………..R.C.
Code of Civil Procedure (1868)………………………..C.C.P.
Code (1883)……………………………………………………..Code
Revisal of 1905…………………………………………………Rev.
Consolidated Statutes (1919, 1924)…………………C.S.
North Carolina General Statutes (1943)…………..G.S.