GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
SESSION LAW 2007-220
SENATE BILL 608
AN ACT authorizing the city of durham to expedite removal of refuse and debris, and overgrown vegetation, by amending the definition of chronic violator.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of S.L. 2003-133 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 1. A municipality may notify a
chronic violator of the municipality's refuse and debris ordinance that, if the
violator's property is found to be in violation of the ordinance, the
municipality may, without further notice in the calendar year in which the
notice is given, take action to remedy the violation, and the expense of the
action shall become a lien upon the violator's property and shall be collected
as unpaid taxes. The initial annual notice shall be served by registered or
certified mail. Under this section, a chronic violator is a person who owns
property whereupon, in the previous calendar year, the municipality took
remedial action at least three two times under the refuse and
debris ordinance."
SECTION 2. G.S. 160A-200(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) A municipality may
notify a chronic violator of the municipality's overgrown vegetation ordinance
that, if the violator's property is found to be in violation of the ordinance,
the municipality shall, without further notice in the calendar year in which
notice is given, take action to remedy the violation and the expense of the
action shall become a lien upon the property and shall be collected as unpaid
taxes. The initial annual notice shall be served by registered or certified
mail. A chronic violator is a person who owns property whereupon, in the
previous calendar year, the municipality took remedial action at least three
two times under the overgrown vegetation ordinance."
SECTION 3. This act applies to the City of Durham only.
SECTION 4. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 2007.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives