Gastonia, NC Environmental Rules: Erosion Control (2026)
Key Facts
- Adoption mechanism
- County ordinance adopted by reference citywide
- County ordinance date
- Adopted November 14, 2002
- Amendment date
- Amended March 13, 2003
- Effective date
- April 1, 2003
- Record location
- Copy on file with city clerk
- Enacting city ordinance
- Ord. No. 03-436, § 1, 5-6-03
Summary
Gastonia has no separate municipal erosion ordinance; instead Sec. 16-237 adopts Gaston County's Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control ordinance in its entirety as city law. The county measure, and every later amendment to it, applies automatically inside city limits, with a copy kept on file at the Gastonia city clerk's office.
The article entitled "Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control for Gaston County" adopted November 14, 2002 and amended March 13, 2003, to become effective April 1, 2003, is hereby adopted in its entirety as an ordinance of the city. All subsequent amendments thereto shall be likewise effective and enforceable in the city. A copy of said ordinance and all amendments thereto shall be kept in the office of the city clerk.
Full Breakdown
Sec. 16-237, the entirety of Chapter 16's Article IX, adopts "the article entitled 'Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control for Gaston County' adopted November 14, 2002 and amended March 13, 2003, to become effective April 1, 2003," as a Gastonia ordinance rather than writing the city's own construction-site erosion standards. The section further states that "all subsequent amendments thereto shall be likewise effective and enforceable in the city," so Gastonia does not need to re-adopt the ordinance each time Gaston County revises it, and the city clerk keeps a copy of the ordinance and all amendments on file for public reference.
This provision was enacted by Ord. No. 03-436, § 1, adopted May 6, 2003. Sec. 16-237 does not itself name an enforcing city officer, set a fee schedule, or list specific numeric site standards (buffer widths, grading limits, or similar figures); those terms live in the county ordinance text kept at the clerk's office, not in the Gastonia code itself. The section sits in Article IX, right after the 2012 repeal of the former extraterritorial-jurisdiction article, and it is the sole provision of that article.
Violations & Fines
Sec. 16-237 sets no fine schedule or stop-work authority of its own; because it adopts the county measure "in its entirety," violation penalties and enforcement procedures run under the terms of the Gaston County Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control ordinance and its amendments, the text of which the city clerk keeps on file rather than reprinting a separate city-code fine structure.
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