Full text of one North Carolina (NC) General Statutes section, by citation.

Use for "what does G.S. 14-72.1 say". Accepts any spelling — "14-72.1", "G.S. 14-72.1", "§ 14-72.1". Returns catchline, body, history note, and when it was first enacted and last amended. as_of gives the text observed on a past date; pending lists variants enacted but not yet effective.

Carries codified_through, session_laws_through and a legislation_note naming any enacted act that touches this section outside the codified text. An uncodified override ("Notwithstanding G.S. ...") is never codified, so it is reported regardless of the watermark. PENDING BILLS ARE NOT COVERED — a ratified bill is not law and appears in neither source, so an empty note is not evidence nothing passed.

as_of RESOLVES AGAINST OBSERVED VERSIONS, NOT EFFECTIVE DATES — it answers "what did this database hold on that date", so it cannot reach text from before the first ingest run. For "what took effect on 1 October" use recent_law_changes(source="effective").

Section-level only — ask for "20-141", not "20-141(j1)". For WHEN it changed use amendment_history; for WHAT changed use diff_statute.