NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 655

HOUSE BILL 155

 

 

AN ACT CONCERNING NUISANCES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  General Statute 19-1 is hereby amended and rewritten so that the same shall hereafter read as follows:

"§ 19-1.  What are nuisances under the Chapter. — (a) The erection, establishment, continuance, maintenance, use, ownership or leasing of any building or place for the purpose of assignation, prostitution, gambling, illegal possession or sale of intoxicating liquors or illegal possession or sale of narcotic drugs as defined in the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act shall constitute a nuisance; and

(b)        The erection, establishment, continuance, maintenance, use, ownership or leasing of any building or place wherein or whereon are carried on, conducted, or permitted repeated acts which create and constitute a breach of the peace shall constitute a nuisance.

(c)        The building, or place, or the ground itself, in or upon which a nuisance as defined in subsections (a) or (b) above is carried on, and the furniture, fixtures, and contents, are also declared a nuisance, and shall be enjoined and abated as hereinafter provided."

Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1971.