A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT authorizing the city of durham to give annual notice to chronic violators of the city's refuse and debris ordinance without FurTHER notice that calendar year and authorizing the city of durham to give annual notice to chronic violators of the city's overgrown vegetation ordinance without FurTHER notice that calendar year.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  A municipality may notify a chronic violator of the municipality's refuse and debris ordinance that, if the violator's property is found to be in violation of the ordinance, the municipality may, without further notice in the calendar year in which the notice is given, take action to remedy the violation, and the expense of the action shall become a lien upon the violator's property and shall be collected as unpaid taxes. The initial annual notice shall be served by registered or certified mail.  Under this section, a chronic violator is a person who owns property whereupon, in the previous calendar year, the municipality took remedial action at least three times under the refuse and debris ordinance.
SECTION 2.  Section 2 of S.L. 1999‑58, as amended by S.L. 2000‑33, S.L. 2000‑38, and S.L. 2001‑107, reads as rewritten:
"Section 2. This act applies to the Cities of Durham, Gastonia, High Point, Lexington, Roanoke Rapids, and Winston‑Salem only."
SECTION 3.  Section 1 of this act applies to the City of Durham only.
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.