---
type: "Bill"
title: "Make Overgrown Vegetation Law Statewide."
description: "Make Overgrown Vegetation Law Statewide."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 452"
citation: "North Carolina SB 452 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "NOTARY PUBLIC", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "PLANTS & TREES", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. STEIN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-05"
last_action: "2009-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86a11b09-83d9-4aa0-90c2-b76b3c94edfa"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S452&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "7a61270dc0710ef37de42216bc4af289f6237fbbe9245312305cd73ff5c24f8d"
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 452 (2009) — Make Overgrown Vegetation Law Statewide.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S452v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S452v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S452v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S452v3.pdf)
5. **SL2009-19** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S452v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **113–1** (pass) · lower
- Motion 8\To Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Albertson — cosponsor (person)
- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
- Goodall — cosponsor (person)
- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Soles — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Swindell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-04-30** Ch. SL 2009-19 `became-law`
- **2009-04-30** Signed By Gov. 4/30/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-04-27** Pres. To Gov. 4/24/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-04-23** Ratified
- **2009-04-22** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2009-04-21** Placed On Cal For 4/22/2009
- **2009-04-21** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2009-04-20** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-04-16** Placed On Cal For 4/20/2009
- **2009-04-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-04-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-04-08** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-24** Ref to the Com on Local Government I, if favorable, Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-19** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-03-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-09** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86a11b09-83d9-4aa0-90c2-b76b3c94edfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).