GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005
SESSION LAW 2005-45
HOUSE BILL 987
AN ACT authorizing the towns of cramerton and grifton to give annual notice to violators of the town's weeded lot ordinance.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. The Town may notify a violator of the Town's weeded lot ordinance that if the violator's property is found to be in violation of the ordinance again in the calendar year in which notice is given, the Town shall, without further notice, take action to remedy the violation, and the expense of that action shall be charged to the violator. The notice may also provide that for each additional violation the Town shall charge the violator the expense of the action and a surcharge of up to fifty percent (50%) over the expense to remedy the preceding violation. Notice of violation shall be served by registered or certified mail.
SECTION 2. This act applies only to the Towns of Cramerton and Grifton.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of May, 2005.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives