A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT authorizing the city of durham and the town of williamston to expedite removal of overgrown vegetation by amending the definition of chronic violator.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A‑200(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	A municipality may notify a chronic violator of the municipality's overgrown vegetation ordinance that, if the violator's property is found to be in violation of the ordinance, the municipality 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. The initial annual 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 municipality took remedial action at least two times under the overgrown vegetation ordinance."
SECTION 2.  This act applies to the City of Durham and the Town of Williamston only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.