GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 742

HOUSE BILL 2037

 

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF GREEN LEVEL IN ALAMANCE COUNTY TO AUTHORIZE ENACTMENT OF A PROPERTY MAINTENANCE ORDINANCE AND THE ASSESSMENT OF CERTAIN COSTS OF ENFORCEMENT AS A LIEN AGAINST THE PROPERTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Charter of the Town of Green Level, being Chapter 942, 1989 Session Laws, is amended by adding the following new Chapter:

"Chapter VI.

"Additional Police Power Authority.

"Sec. 6.1.  Removal of trash, weeds; lien.  The Town Council may require the owner or owners of all premises, vacant or improved, to keep the same free from trash, obnoxious weeds, overgrowth, solid wastes, and stagnant water and may provide that in the case of failure on the part of such owner or owners to comply with any such requirement, an employee or contractor of the Town may go upon their premises and perform such work as may be necessary to comply with such requirement, and the Town may charge the cost thereof against the premises upon which such work is performed.

The costs to the Town of any work performed under this section shall constitute a lien against the premises upon which the work is performed and may be collected in the same manner as taxes upon real property.  The term 'costs' as used in this section shall include interest at the rate of eight percent (8%) per annum until said lien is paid.  Interest does not accrue until a bill for the costs becomes overdue."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of July, 1994.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives