NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 952

HOUSE BILL 1179

 

 

AN ACT TO GRANT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AUTHORITY TO REGULATE THE DISPOSING AND DISCARDING OF TRASH WITHIN COUNTIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 153-9 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection at the end thereof to read as follows:

"§ 153-9(67).  To provide for the removal and disposal of trash, garbage, etc. The Board of County Commissioners of any county is hereby authorized to enact ordinances governing the removal, method or manner of disposal, depositing or dumping of any trash, debris, garbage, litter, discarded cans or receptacles or any waste matter whatsoever within the rural areas of the county and outside and beyond the corporate limits of any municipality of said county. An ordinance adopted pursuant hereto may make it unlawful to place, discard, dispose, leave or dump any trash, debris, garbage, litter, discarded cans or receptacles or any waste matter whatsoever upon a street or highway located within that county or upon property owned or operated by the county unless such trash, debris, garbage, litter, discarded cans or receptacles or any waste matter is placed in a designated location or container for removal by a specific garbage or trash service collector.

Boards of County Commissioners may also provide by ordinance enacted pursuant to this section, that the placing, discarding, disposing, leaving or dumping of the articles forbidden by this section shall, for each day or portion thereof the articles or matter are left, constitute a separate offense, and that a person in violation of the ordinance may be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisoned not exceeding 30 days, or both, for each offense."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of March, 1974.