North Carolina Code § 31D-2-201

Creation of power of appointment.
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(a) A power of appointment is created only if all of the following apply:
(1) The instrument creating the power is valid under applicable law.
(2) Repealed by Session Laws 2021-53, s. 4.1, effective June 25, 2021.
(3) The terms of the instrument creating the power manifest the donor's intent to create in a power holder a power of appointment over the appointive property exercisable in favor of a permissible appointee.
(b) Repealed by Session Laws 2021-53, s. 4.1, effective June 25, 2021.
(c) A power of appointment may not be created in a deceased individual.
(d) Subject to an applicable rule against perpetuities or restraint on alienation, a power of appointment may be created in an unborn or unascertained power holder.

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