GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1546

Short Title:  Greenville Fees/Weedy Lots.	(Local)

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Sponsors: Representatives Tolson; and Rogers.

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Referred to:  Local and Regional Government I, if favorable, Finance.

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May 27, 1998

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF GREENVILLE TO CHARGE A FEE NOT TO EXCEED TEN DOLLARS FOR UNCERTIFIED COPIES OF POLICE INCIDENT OR ACCIDENT REPORTS AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY TO GIVE ANNUAL NOTICE OF VIOLATION TO CHRONIC VIOLATORS OF THE CITY'S OVERGROWN VEGETATION ORDINANCE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The City may charge a fee not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) for an uncertified copy of a police incident or accident report, except that a representative of a newspaper, wire service, radio station, or television station shall not be charged a fee that exceeds the City's actual cost of making the uncertified copy.  The fees collected shall be used for law enforcement purposes only.  
Section 2. The City may notify a chronic violator of the City's overgrown vegetation ordinance that, if the violator's property is found to be in violation of the ordinance, the City 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 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 City took remedial action at least three times under the overgrown vegetation ordinance.
Section 3. This act applies to the City of Greenville only.
Section 4. This act is effective when it becomes law.