General Counsel Manual

1. Contact Ann B. Wall, General Counsel:

   Ann B. Wall

   General Counsel

   North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State.

   [email protected]

   P.O. Box 29622

   Raleigh, NC 27626-0622

   Phone: 919-814-5400

   Or send an email to: [email protected]

2. Please put “Rulemaking List” in the subject line of your email or correspondence.

3. Tell us whether you want to be notified of all of our rulemaking matters OR if you just want to be notified about rulemaking on specific topics.

Our Rulemaking Topics:

• Charitable Solicitation Licensing
• Business Registration (formerly called Corporations) Rules
• Electronic Commerce Rules
• General Departmental and Administration Rules
• Land Records Rules
• Lobbying Rules
• Notary Public and Electronic Notary Public Rules
• Securities
• State Franchise for Cable Television Service
• Trademarks Rules
• Uniform Athlete Agents Act Rules
• Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Rules

Note: Emails related to our rulemaking will usually come from the following email address: [email protected].

Legal basis for the List: We maintain this list both because we want to share information with people interested in our work and because we are required to do so. The law requiring the list is G.S. § 150B-21.2(d):

"An agency must maintain a mailing list of persons who have requested notice of rulemaking. When an agency publishes in the North Carolina Register a notice of text of a proposed rule, it must mail a copy of the notice or text to each person on the mailing list who has requested notice on the subject matter described in the notice or the rule affected. An agency may charge an annual fee to each person on the agency's mailing list to cover copying and mailing costs."