---
type: "Bill"
title: "Lexington/Winston-Salem Vegetation Ordinance."
description: "Lexington/Winston-Salem Vegetation Ordinance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "SB 453"
citation: "North Carolina SB 453 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "SEN. BINGHAM", "SEN. CUNNINGHAM", "GUILFORD COUNTY", "HIGH POINT", "FORSYTH COUNTY", "DAVIDSON COUNTY", "WINSTON-SALEM", "LEXINGTON", "PLANTS & TREES", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2001-03-13"
last_action: "2001-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b4938c4-c929-481c-add9-39c8a851b207"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=S453&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3247afb0b86ab8f4a5c371ea507347a12c7e0da304c7e5326f6653db29de8fc2"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina SB 453 (2001) — Lexington/Winston-Salem Vegetation Ordinance.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S453v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S453v2.pdf)
3. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S453v3.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S453v4.pdf)
5. **SL 2001-107** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S453v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **48–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-05-23** Ch. SL 2001-107 `became-law`
- **2001-05-23** Ratified
- **2001-05-22** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-21** Placed On Cal For 5/22/2001
- **2001-05-21** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2001-05-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-05-16** Placed On Cal For 5/17/2001
- **2001-05-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-05-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-04** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-04** Rec From Senate
- **2001-04-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-03-29** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-03-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-14** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b4938c4-c929-481c-add9-39c8a851b207`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).