AN ACT authorizing the city of henderson to give annual notice to violators of the City's weeded lot ordinance.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The Charter of the City of Henderson, being Chapter 780 of the 1967 Session Laws, as amended, is amended by adding the following new section:
"Sec. 40.1. Weeded Lot Ordinance. The City may notify a violator of the City'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 City 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 City 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 is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of May, 2003.

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		 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives