NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 778

SENATE BILL 455

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF HIGH POINT TO PROMULGATE ORDINANCES REQUIRING THE OWNERS OF PROPERTY TO REMOVE ANY WEEDS, UNDERGROWTH, DEBRIS, TRASH OR OTHER OFFENSIVE MATTER OR THING.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Council of the City of High Point is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to promulgate ordinances, rules and regulations requiring the owner of any property on which there exists any debris, garbage, litter, weeds, undergrowth, trash or other offensive matter or thing to remove the same. If after due notice and an opportunity to be heard, the owner fails or refuses to remove such debris, garbage, litter, weeds, undergrowth, trash or other offensive matter or thing, the City of High Point is hereby authorized and empowered to cause the same to be removed and the cost of removal shall become a lien upon the property from which such removal occurred.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1959.