GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 556
SENATE BILL 690

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF DURHAM TO AUTHORIZE THE MAKING OF EMERGENCY REPAIRS IN HOUSING CODE CASES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Charter of the City of Durham, being Chapter 671, 1975 Session Laws, is amended by adding the following new section:
"Sec. 102.3.  Emergency repairs in housing code cases.
(a)	The City Council may, by ordinance, authorize a housing appeals board created pursuant to G.S. 160A-446 to adopt ordinances ordering the housing inspector to repair a condition or conditions of a dwelling or dwelling unit that pose(s) an immediate threat of danger or harm to the safety of the occupants in such dwelling or dwelling unit.  Any ordinance adopted under this section shall provide that at least 72 hours notice will be given to the owner of and parties in interest in such dwelling or dwelling unit prior to the making of any repairs or improvements by the housing inspector.
(b)	The amount of the cost of such repairs, alterations, or improvements shall be a lien against the real property upon which such cost was incurred, which lien shall be filed, have the same priority and shall be collected as provided by Article 10 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of May, 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