North Carolina HB 1018: Durham/Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
H 2
HOUSE BILL 1018*
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/30/07

Short Title: Durham/Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance. (Local)
Sponsors:
Referred to:
March 27, 2007

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF DURHAM AND THE TOWN OF 2
WILLIAMSTON TO EXPEDITE REMOVAL OF OVERGROWN VEGETATION 3
BY AMENDING THE DEFINITION OF CHRONIC VIOLATOR. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1. G.S. 160A-200(a) reads as rewritten: 6
"(a) A municipality may notify a chronic violator of the municipality's overgrown 7
vegetation ordinance that, if the violator's property is found to be in violation of the 8
ordinance, the municipality shall, without further notice in the calendar year in which 9
notice is given, take action to remedy the violation and the expense of the action shall 10
become a lien upon the property and shall be collected as unpaid taxes.property. The 11
initial annual notice shall be served by registered or certified mail. A chronic violator is 12
a person who owns property whereupon, in the previous calendar year, the municipality 13
took remedial action at least three two times under the overgrown vegetation 14
ordinance." 15
SECTION 2. This act applies to the City of Durham and the Town of 16
Williamston only. 17
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law. 18