---
type: "Bill"
title: "Durham/Monroe Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance."
description: "Durham/Monroe Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 478"
citation: "North Carolina SB 478 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "NOTIFICATION", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "SEN. GULLEY", "DURHAM COUNTY", "UNION COUNTY", "MONROE", "DURHAM", "PLANTS & TREES", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-19"
last_action: "2003-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ec0b84b-52fa-48da-a13f-9704ca09e090"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S478&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cea59edde5e4e0f6382e708fb936c839881d8a7ddea9cc4127e627f1bfd4aded"
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 478 (2003) — Durham/Monroe 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/S478v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S478v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S478v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S478v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-77** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S478v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gulley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-22** Ch. SL 2003-77 `became-law`
- **2003-05-22** Ratified
- **2003-05-21** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2003-05-20** Placed On Cal For 5/21/2003
- **2003-05-20** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2003-05-19** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-15** Placed On Cal For 5/19/2003
- **2003-05-14** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-14** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-15** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-15** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-20** Ref To Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ec0b84b-52fa-48da-a13f-9704ca09e090`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).