§ 12-14. Drainage.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any owner, lessee, tenant or any occupant of any building or premises within the town to keep or permit thereon any standing water or matter or substance injurious to health or so offensively odorous as to constitute a nuisance.

(b)

All sewerages, excavations, ditches or open spaces thereon in which water at any time stagnates or rises, or which are damp, and in which foul and unwholesome gases are generated, and all premises therein on which water shall pond, shall, upon written notification by and through the Town Manager, be provided with proper drainage by the owner thereof, to be filled up with sand, gravel or some other imperishable matter in such a manner as to not obstruct proper drainage of water.

(c)

Upon the establishment of grades by the town for drainage systems, it shall be the duty of any property owners to conform thereto and to provide at their own expense a proper and adequate system of drainage over their respective premises so as to abate and prevent nuisances.

(Code 1977, § 8-5020; Code 1986, § 7-16)

State law reference

Drainage, G.S. ch. 156.