---
type: "Bill"
title: "Henderson Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance."
description: "Henderson Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 356"
citation: "North Carolina SB 356 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "NOTIFICATION", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "SEN. SWINDELL", "VANCE COUNTY", "HENDERSON", "PLANTS & TREES", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. HOLLOMAN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-10"
last_action: "2003-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/941f8dd4-5741-429f-a41d-7cef869d674a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S356&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2e39c46d9b35c369fa8c3d4985a4b256341a3b745abaf8fce2ebda79d647c816"
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 356 (2003) — Henderson Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance.

## Version chain

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

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S356v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S356v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S356v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-40** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S356v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **108–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Holloman — cosponsor (person)
- Swindell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-14** Ch. SL 2003-40 `became-law`
- **2003-05-14** Ratified
- **2003-05-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-12** Placed On Cal For 5/13/2003
- **2003-05-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-01** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-01** Rec From Senate
- **2003-03-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-11** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/941f8dd4-5741-429f-a41d-7cef869d674a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).