Chapter 99C

When used in this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Competitor. - A skier actually engaged in competition or in practice for competition with the permission of the ski area operator on any slope or trail or portion of a slope or trail designated by the ski area …

A ski area operator may bring a civil action against a person who misuses a ski pass or season pass or who accesses or uses a ski area without authorization from the ski area operator and shall be entitled to recover an amount equal to the regular cost of a full season pass to th…

A ski area operator's agent or employee who detains or causes the arrest of any person shall not be held civilly liable for detention, malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, or false arrest of the person detained or arrested, if (i) within the premises of the ski area, (ii) i…

Evidence offered to prove past medical expenses shall be limited to evidence of the amounts actually paid to satisfy the bills that have been satisfied, regardless of the source of payment, and evidence of the amounts actually necessary to satisfy the bills that have been incurre…

It is the public policy of the State of North Carolina that waivers of liability executed in conjunction with winter sports are an express acknowledgement of the inherent risks set out in G.S. 99C-1(1b) enumerated in that document. (2026-49, s. 1(a).)

The provisions of G.S. 95-25.3 (minimum wage), 95-25.4 (overtime), 95-25.5 (youth employment), and 95-25.15(b) (record keeping) do not apply to a bona fide volunteer who volunteers at a ski area. For the purposes of this section, a "bona fide volunteer" is (i) a volunteer ski pat…

(a) A ski area operator is responsible for the maintenance and safe operation of any passenger tramway in the ski area operator's ski area and ensuring that the ski area is in conformity with the rules prescribed and adopted by the North Carolina Department of Labor pursuant to G…

A violation of any duty or responsibility placed on the skier, passenger, or skier's parent or guardian as set forth in G.S. 99C-2, to the extent the violation proximately causes injury to any person or damage to any property, shall constitute negligence on the part of the person…

The ski area operator shall, prior to the beginning of a competition, allow each competitor a reasonable visual inspection of the course or area where the competition is to be held. The competitor shall be held to assume risk of all course conditions including weather and snow co…

The operation of a passenger tramway shall not constitute the operation of a common carrier. (1981, c. 939, s. 1.)

Skiers are deemed to have knowledge of and to assume the inherent risks of skiing. (2026-49, s. 1(a).)

No ski area operator who has complied with G.S. 99C-2 shall be liable to any person who voluntarily participates in skiing for any damage or injury to property or persons that arises out of a person's participation in the activity that takes place in a ski area. (2026-49, s. 1(a)…

(a) Violation. - It shall be unlawful for any person to do any of the following acts: (1) Use a stolen, fictitious, or borrowed ski pass or season pass for the purpose of obtaining services of any kind from a ski area. (2) Ski at a ski area without a valid ski pass or season pass…

(a) Violation. - It shall be unlawful for a skier to leave the vicinity when the skier knows or should reasonably know that they were involved in a collision with another skier before giving his or her name and current address to an employee or agent of the ski area operator, a m…