---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clinton/Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance."
description: "Clinton/Overgrown Vegetation Ordinance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "HB 32"
citation: "North Carolina HB 32 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "MUNICIPALITIES", "NOTIFICATION", "RATIFIED", "REP. BELL", "SAMPSON COUNTY", "PLANTS & TREES", "CLINTON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2009-02-02"
last_action: "2009-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36b36636-260d-4656-ba8d-ab0c27b5110a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=H32&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "6ef92c459763208a3a21c1ea3c30582550683fb53da6720a0012babd7e80f413"
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 HB 32 (2009) — Clinton/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/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H32v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H32v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H32v2.pdf)
4. **SL2009-3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H32v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **106–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- E. Floyd — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-03-05** Ch. SL 2009-3 `became-law`
- **2009-03-05** Ratified
- **2009-03-04** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-03-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-23** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-23** Rec From House
- **2009-02-19** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-02-18** Placed On Cal For 2/19/2009
- **2009-02-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-02-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-02-12** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-12** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-02-03** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2009-02-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-02-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36b36636-260d-4656-ba8d-ab0c27b5110a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).