Bill Text: NC S170 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Clarify Nuisance Abatement Laws
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-09 - Re-ref Com On Judiciary II [S170 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-S170-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
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SENATE BILL 170
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Short Title: Clarify Nuisance Abatement Laws. |
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Sponsors: |
Senator Hartsell. |
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Referred to: |
Judiciary II. |
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March 2, 2011
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to clarify the nuisance abatement laws.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 19‑1(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) The erection, establishment, continuance,
maintenance, use, ownership or leasing of any building or place for the
purpose wherein or whereon repeated acts of assignation,
prostitution, gambling, illegal possession or sale of alcoholic beverages,
illegal possession or sale of controlled substances as defined in the North
Carolina Controlled Substances Act, or illegal possession or sale of obscene or
lewd matter, as defined in this Chapter, shall constitute a nuisance."
SECTION 2. G.S. 19‑1.2(6) reads as rewritten:
"(6) Every place which, as a regular course of
business, is used for the purposes wherein or whereon repeated acts of
lewdness, assignation, gambling, the illegal possession or sale of alcoholic
beverages, the illegal possession or sale of controlled substances as defined
in the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act, or prostitution, and every
such place in or upon which acts of lewdness, assignation, gambling, the
illegal possession or sale of alcoholic beverages, the illegal possession or
sale of controlled substances as defined in the North Carolina Controlled
Substances Act, or prostitution, are held or occur."
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective August 1, 2011, and applies to offenses committed or nuisances occurring on or after that date.
