---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rocky Mt. Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance."
description: "Rocky Mt. Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 83"
citation: "North Carolina SB 83 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BLANK BILL", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "SEN. SWINDELL", "EDGECOMBE COUNTY", "NASH COUNTY", "FRANKLIN COUNTY", "VANCE COUNTY", "ROCKY MOUNT", "PLANTS & TREES", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2003-02-17"
last_action: "2003-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e1c9f17-da19-4441-91bf-9b02aefe4256"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S83&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f42bad8615454f04b7f23631a5872746d792058bdfd19af6eb68b7af4df7959d"
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 83 (2003) — Rocky Mt. 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/S83v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S83v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S83v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S83v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-80** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S83v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Swindell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-27** Ch. SL 2003-80 `became-law`
- **2003-05-27** Ratified
- **2003-05-22** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-21** Placed On Cal For 5/22/2003
- **2003-05-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-30** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-30** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-28** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-24** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-04-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-09** Re-ref Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-09** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2003-02-18** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e1c9f17-da19-4441-91bf-9b02aefe4256`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).