Greensboro, NC

Greensboro bars short-term rental hosts from allowing publicly announced or promoted gatherings that draw more than twice the number of people actually renting the property. The Land…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance defines two short-term rental types, and only a Homestay qualifies as the lighter-touch category: the host must be on site for the entire…

Greensboro caps how many people can sleep in a short-term rental: the Land Development Ordinance allows no more than two adults per bedroom actually being rented out. Children and…

Greensboro requires every short-term rental to pay all applicable taxes, including occupancy taxes, as a condition of keeping its zoning permit. The Land Development Ordinance also…

Greensboro limits on-site parking for short-term rentals to one car per bedroom being rented, and the rental carries the same parking rights, and the same neighborhood parking…

Stays of 30 days or longer in a Greensboro home generally fall outside the city's short-term rental rules and instead trigger landlord-tenant protections under NCGS Chapter 42. Hosts…

Greensboro can pull a short-term rental's zoning permit after just two verified violations of any city ordinance on the property within a single 365-day period. The same permit can…

Greensboro requires STR registration via zoning permit. Operators must display the permit number on the property and in all advertisements.

Guilford County does not mandate short-term-rental liability insurance in its ordinances. NC law also caps rental fees and limits registration, so insurance is a practical protection…

For the Bed & Breakfast Home use, yes. Guilford County's UDO requires the bed-and-breakfast to be the permanent residence of the owner or manager. The UDO does not impose a…

Greensboro allows backyard chickens and bees on lots of 7,000 square feet or larger, with coops set back 25 to 50 feet from property lines depending on lot size. Horses, cows, sheep…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance controls where veterinary clinics, pet groomers and kennels can operate, and it bans one specific site feature everywhere the use is allowed…

Keeping property in a condition that's offensive or dangerous to the community because of the number, type, variety, density or location of animals on it is a declared public nuisance…

Greensboro's leash-and-restraint requirement in City Code Section 5-3(a)(1) applies to "any animal, excluding cats." Dog and other pet owners must keep the animal on a leash, in a cage…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance classifies pet grooming as a Personal Service use within the Personal and Professional Services category, grouped with kennels and veterinary…

Greensboro LDO Sec. 30-8-11.3 allows beekeeping. Hives must be 50+ ft from property lines. Max one colony per 1,500 sq ft, up to 10 colonies total.

Guilford County Sec. 5-11 and 5-26 regulate exotic animals in Greensboro. Bears, lions, tigers, wolves prohibited. Other exotics need a free Animal Control permit.

Greensboro designates the land around Greensboro Country Park, the area near the Guilford Battleground, and Reedy Fork Creek down to Lake Townsend at Church Street as bird sanctuaries…

Greensboro requires every animal except cats to be under sufficient physical restraint, leash, fence, secure enclosure, or vehicle, whenever it is off the owner's premises, and bars…

Greensboro follows NC dangerous dog law (N.C.G.S. 67-4.1), behavior-based not breed-based. No BSL in effect. Dangerous dogs must be leashed and muzzled off property.

Guilford County does not ban pet stores from selling dogs or cats, but animal control officers can inspect any pet store or dealer facility to check for abuse, and anyone who sells…

Every dog or cat over six months old in Guilford County must be spayed or neutered unless the owner holds a $200 unaltered animal permit from the Department of Animal Services. Service…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance limits residential fences and walls to 4 feet within 15 feet of any street right-of-way, up to 6 feet along thoroughfare-adjacent yards with no…

Building a fence, wall or similar structure inside a Greensboro street right-of-way is unlawful without a written permit from the city manager under Sec. 26-8, and even with one, the…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance bans barbed or razor wire fences, electrified fences, and flammable-material fences citywide, except for enclosing livestock on agricultural…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance allows retaining walls to encroach into required yard setbacks, but caps their height at 4 feet wherever they sit inside a single-family home's…

Guilford County's UDO does not set a spite-fence or shared-cost rule; those are civil matters. The county does bar fences that obstruct street-intersection sight lines or block access…

Greensboro's traffic engineer designates controlled residential parking areas where non-permit vehicles face a strict two-hour limit under City Code § 16-198. A street qualifies once…

Greensboro requires on-street vehicles to sit parallel to the curb and headed the same direction as traffic, and separately bans parking that blocks a sidewalk, driveway, crosswalk, or…

Greensboro will not release a towed vehicle until the owner obtains a signed release authorization form from the chief of police, and that form issues only after an impoundment hearing…

Greensboro doesn't ban overnight parking citywide; it restricts specific signed zones instead. Under §16-145, streets marked with legend E-3 prohibit parking from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m…

Greensboro enforces a Junked and Abandoned Motor Vehicles Ordinance under N.C.G.S. 160A-303. Vehicles without valid tags or inoperable on private property must comply within seven days.

Greensboro bans parking any motor vehicle wider than 80 inches or longer than 30 feet, plus any trailer, on city streets, with exceptions only for active loading/unloading, emergency…

Greensboro designates specific curbside legends F-1 through F-19 as commercial loading zones, each carrying its own operating window; F-18 reserves space for trucks of 15,000 pounds or…

Greensboro bars parking any vehicle on the front yard of a single-family or two-family home unless it sits on a hard all-weather surface, asphalt, concrete, brick, gravel (CABC) or…

Guilford County does not paint or regulate curb-color parking markings, because its roads are state-maintained by NCDOT, which controls all pavement markings and traffic-control…

Greensboro lets homeowners keep natural landscape areas and wooded yards instead of a mowed lawn under City Code § 17-1(a)(2)c, as long as the growth doesn't create a nuisance, stay…

Greensboro requires owners of trees overhanging any street or right-of-way to prune branches so they keep a clear 8-foot space above the street or sidewalk and don't block streetlights…

Greensboro's nuisance ordinance bans grass, weeds, and other noxious vegetation over twelve inches tall on any lot in the city. City Code § 17-1(a)(2) exempts chosen ornamental grasses…

When Greensboro removes a tree from city-owned property, streets, medians or parks, Section 19-41.1(d) requires the city to plant a replacement canopy tree in general proximity to the…

Guilford County has no ordinance banning or specifically regulating artificial turf on residential lots. Because turf is an impervious-type surface, it may count toward built-upon-area…

Backyard composting for your own yard and food waste is allowed; the county has no ordinance banning home compost bins. The public-nuisance code does bar accumulations of putrescible…

North Carolina makes water reuse, including captured rainwater, official state policy, and residential rain barrels used for outdoor irrigation are permitted statewide without a state…

Piedmont Triad Airport (GSO) has a FAA Part 150 program with sound insulation for homes in the 65 DNL contour. Noise maps updated 2022. Aircraft in flight federally preempted.

Greensboro bans car stereos audible 30 feet away, racing engines or spinning tires, and unmuffled engines under City Code § 18-50(c), (e) and (k). Each is listed as an unlawful…

Greensboro bars construction noise in residential districts between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., and in all other districts between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. City Code § 18-50(h) treats…

Greensboro exempts mowers, tillers, leaf blowers, edgers and weed eaters from its noise article only between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. under City Code § 18-54(k). Outside that window…

Greensboro caps noise at residential property lines using a table: 70 dB(C) daytime / 65 dB(C) nighttime in residential and traditional neighborhood zones, and 85/75 dB(C) in mixed-use…

Greensboro bans outdoor amplified sound between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. under City Code § 18-50.1, and separately caps public-property sound amplifiers at audible-beyond-30-feet under §…

Greensboro bars outdoor sound amplification, amplified instruments or sound reproduction devices between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. under City Code § 18-50.1(a). Exceptions cover…

Letting a dog or other animal bark, whine, howl, crow or cackle in a 'long-continued or frequent fashion' that interferes with a neighbor's use of their property is a public nuisance…

Greensboro caps accessory structures like sheds and detached garages in R- districts at 50% of the principal structure's building coverage or 600 square feet, whichever is larger. They…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance does not require the property owner to live in the primary dwelling or the accessory dwelling unit. It does require the two to stay under one…

Guilford County allows one accessory dwelling unit per lot in the AG district, every residential zoning district and MXU, under UDO Subsec. 5.4.B. An ADU built inside the main house is…

Guilford County treats tiny homes as a distinct land use only through a formal 'Tiny Housing Development,' permitted in the RM8, RM18 and RM26 districts under UDO Subsec. 5.4.C. A…

Greensboro's home occupation rule bars anyone who doesn't live in the house from working there, reporting there for pay, or even picking up supplies at the dwelling. The ban applies…

Greensboro caps a home occupation at 30% of the dwelling's gross floor area and requires it be conducted entirely inside the house, invisible from the street. Outdoor storage is banned…

A Greensboro home occupation may display just one sign, and it has to be mounted flat against the front wall, no bigger than 4 square feet and no higher than 6 feet. Only external…

Greensboro allows family child care homes in residential zones. Homes serving 3-8 children need a state DCDEE license under N.C.G.S. 110-86 plus a city business permit.

North Carolina has no cottage food law in the usual sense: there is no statutory sales cap, no annual gross-receipts ceiling, and no permit fee. Instead the state treats a home kitchen…

Greensboro requires an electrical permit before hooking up a spa, hot tub, or hydromassage tub, charged at a flat $20.00 per unit under City Code § 6-123. The city also deleted its…

Greensboro doesn't run a separate swimming-pool building code, but installing a residential pool still triggers an electrical permit from the city's electrical inspection department…

Burning leaves, brush, trash, or any other refuse anywhere inside Greensboro's corporate limits is outright prohibited under City Code § 10-23. The only way around it is a…

Greensboro requires a Fireworks/Pyro/Special Effects Event permit from the fire prevention bureau before any organized display, priced at $300 for the first event and $150 for each…

Propane cylinders must be stored outdoors and upright in Guilford County, never indoors, in a crawl space, or near ignition sources. North Carolina adopts NFPA 58, and larger tanks…

Guilford County sets no mandatory defensible-space brush-clearance rule like fire-prone Western states. Land-clearing brush and limbs may be burned only with an NC Forest Service…

North Carolina requires operable smoke alarms in every rental dwelling, and the state building code requires them in all new and renovated homes. Guilford County follows state law…

Small backyard recreational fires for cooking, warmth, or pleasure are allowed in Guilford County without a burn permit, as long as only clean wood is burned. The fire must stay under…

North Carolina vests statewide wildfire response and burn ban authority in the Commissioner of Agriculture and the State Forester, whose declared bans override local burn permits.

Greensboro requires new construction and substantially improved residential structures in special flood hazard areas to elevate the reference level, including any basement, no lower…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance treats boat docks as water dependent structures that may be built inside drainage maintenance, utility, and water quality conservation…

Greensboro requires a grading permit and an approved soil erosion and sedimentation control plan before any land-disturbing activity that uncovers more than one acre, disturbs highly…

Greensboro requires an approved stormwater management plan and separate maintenance plan before the Planning Director can issue a development permit. The Technical Review Committee…

Greensboro participates in the National Flood Insurance Program and regulates development in FEMA-designated Special Flood Hazard Areas. Multiple creeks and streams throughout the city…

The Coastal Area Management Act, N.C.G.S. 113A-100 through 113A-134.3, requires CAMA permits for development in 20 coastal counties and Areas of Environmental Concern, preempting local…

Greensboro designates cultural and historic landmarks through the Guilford County Joint Historic Preservation Commission, an 11-member body with three seats appointed by the Greensboro…

Greensboro's Downtown Design Overlay (DDO) district, created by Ordinance 10-133 on September 7, 2010, requires every construction and development project inside its boundaries to…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance requires cut-off fixtures on any outdoor light producing more than 4,050 lumens, caps light poles at 35 feet, and bans flashing, revolving or…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance caps outdoor light spilling onto a neighbor's yard at one footcandle measured at any abutting residentially used property line or adjacent…

Digital and electronic billboards in Greensboro cannot shine more than 1 foot-candle above ambient light, measured from the nearest property line or street right-of-way, under the Land…

Outdoor advertising signs facing an Interstate highway get extra height and faster message-change allowances under Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance. A billboard within 400 feet…

Window wraps and other signs applied to storefront glass count as attached signs under Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance and are capped by the same wall-area percentage that…

Electronic outdoor advertising signs, commonly called digital billboards, need a sign permit and may only go up in the C-M, AO, LI and HI zoning districts under Greensboro's Land…

Campaign signs count as temporary signs allowed without a permit in every zoning district under Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance. In nonresidential districts they cannot exceed…

In unincorporated Guilford County, all signs except State/Federal ones are regulated by the Unified Development Ordinance, Article 7. Temporary signs such as yard/garage-sale signs…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance keeps sexually oriented businesses, sex shops, sexually oriented cabarets, media stores, and motion picture theaters, at least 1,200 feet from…

Every junk dealer in Greensboro must keep a permanent purchase log open to police inspection and file a daily report with the police chief on specified secondhand items, auto parts…

Greensboro doesn't license every tow-truck company; it regulates the wrecker companies it contracts with for police-directed towing. Sec. 16-39(h) puts fee schedules through a…

Greensboro requires any business that employs or contracts others to perform massage to hold a city business permit under Chapter 14.5, even though an individually state-licensed…

Greensboro requires every pawnbroker to keep a permanent ledger of each pawned item, owner, description, and loan amount, and to file a daily report with the police chief covering the…

North Carolina regulates retail sale of vapor products and e-cigarettes under NCGS 14-313 and requires licensure under NCGS Chapter 105, while the federal Tobacco 21 law sets the…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance sets aside a dedicated AG, Agricultural District for farm residences, farm tenant housing and scattered non-farm homes on large tracts…

Guilford County's Voluntary Agricultural District Program, run under state authority in G.S. 106-735 through 106-743, lets qualifying farmland enroll to gain protection from nuisance…

Greensboro's noise ordinance does not apply to electrical generators or water pumps while the power is actually out, so running one overnight during a storm outage is not a code…

Greensboro bars and restaurants may run outdoor speakers or TVs until 2 a.m. instead of the city's normal 11 p.m. noise curfew, but only if the sound stays at or below 70 dB(C)…

City Code Section 6-31 requires an automatic fire sprinkler system meeting NFPA Standard 13 or 13R in every fraternity and sorority house in Greensboro. Connections must sit on the…

Greensboro requires a permit from the city plumbing inspector for the installation, extension, alteration, or general repair of any plumbing system under City Code § 6-269. Minor…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance sets separate zoning standards for child day care centers, the larger, non-residential kind serving 16 or more children, apart from in-home day…

No one may start construction, alteration, repair, removal or demolition of a building in Greensboro without a written permit from the building inspector under City Code § 6-56, unless…

Greensboro landlords must disclose lead paint in pre-1978 housing under federal law. EPA penalties reach $19,507 per violation. NC Real Estate Commission also enforces.

Greensboro requires an electrical permit and inspection by the electrical inspector before any wiring, device, appliance or equipment is installed, altered or added to a building under…

Greensboro's building code lays out seven required inspection checkpoints, from location and footing through the final inspection, under City Code Section 6-61. The building inspector…

Guilford County requires carbon monoxide alarms in unincorporated dwellings whenever permitted interior work triggers it: alterations, repairs, fuel-fired appliance swaps or additions…

Leaving objects that block a Greensboro sidewalk, street, or building entrance is a misdemeanor: the code lets police remove blocking items on the spot, and it's separate from the…

Greensboro splits the cost of building or repairing a sidewalk between the city and the abutting property owner under Sec. 26-65. City Council decides which streets get sidewalks and…

Placing anything that blocks or impedes a Greensboro street, sidewalk or right-of-way requires a Temporary Right-of-Way (TROW) encroachment permit from the city manager under Sec…

Greensboro landlords must fix broken plumbing, exposed wiring, unsafe heating equipment, and leaking fuel tanks within 48 hours of written notice under § 11-8. Section 11-10 separately…

Greensboro cannot require most rental owners to register with the city, per § 11-40(c), but a dwelling with more than four verified code violations in 12 months, or two or more in 30…

For nonpayment of rent, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-3 requires a 10-day demand for past-due rent before the lease term is forfeited. The landlord then files summary ejectment under Article 3…

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-46 caps residential late fees on monthly rent at $15 or 5% of the monthly rent, whichever is greater, and bars charging the fee until rent is at least five days…

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-14 sets notice periods to end periodic tenancies: seven days for month-to-month, two days for week-to-week, and one month or more before the year ends for…

North Carolina law preempts local rent control. Under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-14.1, no county or city may enact, maintain, or enforce any ordinance that regulates the amount of rent…

North Carolina caps a residential security deposit by tenancy length under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-51: two weeks' rent for week-to-week, one and one-half months' rent for month-to-month…

North Carolina recognizes adverse possession after 20 years of open, continuous possession under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-40, or after 7 years if the possessor holds under color of title…

Greensboro's inspection department may only conduct periodic housing inspections when there's 'reasonable cause,' defined in § 11-40(a) as a two-violation history, a complaint, actual…

A tenant complaint is enough to trigger a Greensboro housing inspection. Under §11-38, the inspector must diligently examine buildings and dwelling units for unfit conditions, and…

It is unlawful to camp on any public street, sidewalk, passageway, or building entrance/exit anywhere in Greensboro. City Code § 18-44(g) defines 'to camp' as placing bedding, sleeping…

Greensboro bars sitting, lying down, or placing objects like a blanket or chair on a public sidewalk or street between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7 a.m. to midnight…

Greensboro lists block parties as a special event requiring a permit, but shortens the filing window to 30 days ahead for a residential street closing instead of the standard 60 days…

Reserving a Greensboro public facility like a park for a gathering runs through a facility use permit under the city's special events coordinator, who decides case-by-case whether the…

Greensboro treats a festival as a special event needing a permit, and only vendors listed and authorized in that permit's application can sell goods, food or beverages inside the…

Restaurants inside Greensboro's Downtown Sidewalk Cafe District can get a two-year city manager permit to serve on the sidewalk. Seating is capped at half the indoor capacity, and…

A Greensboro parade, any march or procession on a public street that doesn't follow normal traffic rules, needs a special event permit filed 60 days ahead, though small unamplified…

Greensboro requires any business or multi-unit residential complex not eligible for curbside pickup to install a city-approved stationary container between six and eight cubic yards…

Greensboro collects yard waste weekly from curbside households, but grass, leaves and clippings must go in biodegradable paper bags or city carts, limbs must be bundled under five feet…

Greensboro treats illegal dumping of trash, refuse, or hazardous waste on public or private property as a civil offense under City Code § 17-8, not a criminal charge. City-designated…

Greensboro charges $100 per dumpster every time, starting with the second occurrence, that crews have to empty a recycling container as regular trash because it's contaminated with…

Greensboro's solid waste manager sets citywide collection routes and schedules, and no owner or occupant may prohibit or prevent weekly solid waste collection at their premises…

Greensboro residents must set solid waste containers at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on collection day and pull them back to storage within twelve hours after pickup. Carts can't sit on the…

Greensboro provides once-a-week curbside bulk trash pickup to residential units and small businesses on the automated collection system, but items must be separated from other refuse…

Greensboro's automated curbside system provides every eligible household a ninety-gallon container for recyclables under the city's Recycle Greensboro program, covering glass…

Unincorporated Guilford County has no county-run trash truck: residents contract with a privately licensed solid waste hauler. Every hauler must hold a three-year license from the…

Selling any goods on a Greensboro street or sidewalk is flatly unlawful under Sec. 26-230(a), with one carve-out: pushcart mobile food vendors can sell on sidewalks in the central…

Greensboro confines sidewalk pushcart vending to the central business ("CB") zoning district and bars mobile food units and pushcarts alike from operating between 3:00 a.m. and 7:00…

Operating a food truck or pushcart in Greensboro requires an annual mobile food vendor permit under Sec. 26-234, issued only after the vendor already holds a chapter 13 business permit…

Greensboro cannot enact local firearm ordinances. North Carolina General Statute 14-409.40 reserves to the General Assembly the regulation of firearm possession, ownership, storage…

North Carolina issues concealed handgun permits through county sheriffs under NCGS 14-415.10 and recognizes reciprocity with many states; permitless carry is not authorized statewide.

North Carolina generally permits open carry of handguns and long guns without a permit, but local discharge ordinances and posted-property restrictions may apply under state law.

North Carolina permits transporting firearms in a vehicle, but a handgun carried concealed within reach generally requires a concealed handgun permit under NCGS 14-269 and 14-415.10.

Every nonresidential building and its grounds in Greensboro must be kept free of rodent, insect, and pest infestation under City Code § 6-333(c). The same section requires clean yards…

North Carolina authorizes syringe exchange programs under NCGS 90-113.27, and Guilford County Public Health partners with local nonprofits to provide sharps containers and safe…

Greensboro treats bed bug infestations as a violation of minimum housing standards when the landlord fails to maintain a sanitary, pest-free dwelling, requiring professional treatment…

Federal Tobacco 21 law and North Carolina state statute prohibit tobacco, vape, and nicotine product sales to anyone under 21 in Greensboro, with retailer-side enforcement through the…

North Carolina has not enacted a statewide flavored tobacco or flavored vape ban, and no state law authorizes local governments to ban flavored tobacco products, leaving flavor rules…

Cannabis delivery services are illegal in Greensboro because no commercial cannabis market exists in North Carolina; any transport for sale violates NCGS 90-95 and qualifies as drug…

Personal cannabis cultivation is illegal in Greensboro because North Carolina has not legalized medical or recreational marijuana; growing any amount remains a felony or misdemeanor…

Greensboro has no cannabis dispensary buffer zone ordinance because North Carolina has not authorized commercial cannabis sales; existing drug-free school zone enhancements under NCGS…

Riding a skateboard, roller skates or non-motorized scooter on any Greensboro street, on municipal building or parking-facility grounds, or on central business district sidewalks is…

Greensboro bans smoking in a defined list of enclosed public places, elevators, museums, libraries, theatres, large retail stores, city buildings and city or transit vehicles, under…

Greensboro bans possessing an open container of malt beverages or unfortified wine, or consuming either, on any public street, sidewalk, or city-owned property. City Code § 4-7 carries…

Urinating or defecating in any public place, street, sidewalk, alley, right-of-way, public building, or on private property in Greensboro is unlawful under City Code § 18-45, unless…

Greensboro repealed its dedicated panhandling ordinance (former § 13-201) in 2018 and now regulates aggressive solicitation through two general rules: § 18-46.1 restricts solicitation…

Greensboro HOA assessments are governed by N.C.G.S. 47F-3-115. Associations may levy assessments and record liens under 47F-3-116 for unpaid amounts including attorneys fees.

Greensboro HOA disputes may be resolved through mediation or arbitration under N.C.G.S. 47F. The Act requires notice and a hearing before fines under 47F-3-107.1.

Greensboro HOA boards are governed by N.C.G.S. Chapter 47F, the Planned Community Act. The Act requires at least one annual meeting, quorum rules, and defined voting procedures.

Greensboro HOA covenants are enforceable under N.C.G.S. 47F-3-102. Fines require written notice and a hearing under 47F-3-107.1 before the association can impose penalties.

North Carolina suspends an HOA's power to require landscaping irrigation once the area is designated severe, extreme, or exceptional drought and a government body has imposed water…

State law strips North Carolina homeowners associations of power to block the American or state flag on a member's own lot. G.S. 47F-3-121(1) voids any covenant restriction on a flag…

North Carolina's G.S. 47F-3-107.1 requires due process before an HOA can fine an owner. A hearing must be held before the executive board or an adjudicatory panel, with notice of the…

North Carolina lets a homeowners association foreclose on a house without ever filing a lawsuit. Under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47F-3-116, an assessment unpaid for 30 days can be turned into…

Greensboro exempts temporary holiday light displays from the Land Development Ordinance's outdoor lighting standards, and treats non-commercial lights, decorations and flags not…

Greensboro runs an automated red-light camera program under §16-58, authorized by G.S. §160A-300.1. Cameras at listed intersections photograph vehicles that cross the stop line on a…

Greensboro doesn't run a Class 1/2/3 e-bike scheme; it defines an "electric assisted bicycle" as a bike with a motor of 750 watts or less and a motor-only top speed of 20 mph, then…

Operating a commercial shared micromobility (scooter/bike-share) service in Greensboro's public right-of-way requires a permit from the director of transportation under Sec. 16-229…

Greensboro reserves signed bicycle-street lanes on streets listed in traffic schedule no. 11 for bicycles and micromobility vehicles only; driving or parking any other vehicle inside a…

North Carolina runs two entirely separate regimes, and which one you are in is decided by five miles per hour. A golf cart is defined as a vehicle not capable of exceeding 20 mph, and…

Greensboro no longer classifies most businesses for a general privilege license tax. Article II of Chapter 13 limits the surviving license to three activities: retail or wholesale beer…

Greensboro's Land Development Ordinance protects large, noteworthy 'specimen trees' as the third-highest priority for on-site conservation during development. A specimen tree is…

Anyone planting a tree in a Greensboro street right-of-way needs a written permit from the parks and recreation director first, and the species, size class, and spacing must match the…

Greensboro cannot set a hotel-specific living wage because North Carolina state law NCGS 95-25.1 preempts local minimum wages. Hotels follow the federal floor of 7.25 dollars per hour…

Greensboro's nuisance code bans letting kudzu, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, or any other invasive plant identified by the North Carolina Forest Service or Department of…

Greensboro cannot set its own minimum wage because North Carolina General Statute 95-25.1 preempts local wage ordinances. The state minimum tracks the federal floor of 7.25 dollars per…

North Carolina has no statewide predictive scheduling law and effectively preempts local fair workweek or predictive scheduling ordinances through its Wage and Hour Act framework.

Installing solar photovoltaic equipment in Greensboro requires both an electrical permit from the electrical inspector under § 6-111 and a $150 fire-prevention-bureau construction…

North Carolina voids any deed restriction, covenant, or HOA agreement that bans, or effectively bans, solar collectors on residential property, under G.S. 22B-20. The protection covers…

Once Greensboro's inspector finds a residential building 'unfit for human habitation' under Sec. 11-37, Sec. 11-39(b) forces the owner onto a 30-to-90-day order to either repair it, if…

Guilford County treats dumping on vacant land as a solid-waste public nuisance and can remove junked or abandoned vehicles from private property once declared a health or safety…

Greensboro treats a yard sale as a permitted accessory use rather than something that needs a permit, but caps how often you can hold one. Table 8-1 of the Land Development Ordinance…

Anyone going door to door in Greensboro to sell goods or services must get a business permit under City Code Sec. 13-202. Applicants selling at private residences also submit to a…

Greensboro caps single-family homes in the R-3 district at 50 feet or 3 stories under Land Development Ordinance Table 7-1. Height is measured from the average finished-grade elevation…

In Greensboro's R-3 Residential Single-family district, buildings and roofed structures may cover no more than 30 percent of the lot under Land Development Ordinance Table 7-1, rising…

Greensboro's R-3 Single-family district under Land Development Ordinance Table 7-1 sets a 25-foot front setback (30 feet to a garage door), 15-foot side street setback, 35-foot…

New construction and substantial improvements in Special Flood Hazard Areas of unincorporated Guilford County must sit at least 2 feet above the Base Flood Elevation. The county's UDO…

Guilford County parks close at their posted hours, and Sec. 13-19 makes it unlawful to be in a county park outside those hours without express county permission. Sec. 13-20 backs the…

North Carolina permits cities and counties to enact juvenile curfews under general police power but requires constitutional safeguards under state law.

The county's most-cited zoning violations are building or using land without a permit, subdividing without approval, land-disturbing work without a permit, and unpermitted signs. Every…

Anyone can report a suspected zoning violation in unincorporated Guilford County by filing a written complaint with the Enforcement Officer, who logs it and investigates before…

North Carolina repealed its state commercial drone operator permit and knowledge test effective December 1, 2024, so commercial pilots now need only the FAA Part 107 remote pilot…

North Carolina General Statute 15A-300.1 and related laws set statewide rules for unmanned aircraft, banning drone surveillance without consent and weaponized drones, while federal law…

North Carolina lets exempt nonprofits run bingo and raffles under Chapter 14, Part 2's charitable-gaming statutes. Bingo requires a $200 annual license from the Alcohol Law Enforcement…

North Carolina's gambling law, N.C.G.S. § 14-292, makes it a Class 2 misdemeanor for anyone to bet money, property, or anything of value on a game of chance, whether the wager is…

North Carolina legalized sports wagering under G.S. Chapter 18C, Article 9, effective March 2024. The State Lottery Commission licenses online and in-person sportsbooks; interactive…

North Carolina is one of the few states whose legislature expressly authorized sobriety and license checkpoints by statute. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-16.3A lets any law enforcement agency…

North Carolina never enacted an express right to record police, and it never enacted a buffer law either. What it has is a one-party consent wiretap statute: N.C. Gen. Stat. §…

North Carolina has no general stop-and-identify statute. A pedestrian stopped on the street commits no offense by declining to give a name, and the state's entire vagrancy article…

North Carolina is one of the few states that wrote consent searches into statute instead of leaving them to case law. Article 9 of Chapter 15A defines consent as a statement to the…

North Carolina has no statewide ban on plastic straws and does not authorize local governments to ban single-use plastic straws or other utensils.

North Carolina lets any motor vehicle carry up to two spot lamps and up to two front auxiliary driving lamps, and it caps every other added lamp at 25 candlepower unless the beam is…

North Carolina has no statute telling you where a dash cam may be mounted. Part 9 of Article 3 of Chapter 20 regulates the windshield only for tint and for safety glass, and nothing in…

North Carolina has never authorised lane splitting and has never written a section that uses the phrase. The motorcycle lane statute, G.S. 20-146.1, entitles a motorcycle to the full…

North Carolina bans anything over a plate that makes part of it unreadable, and it names frames and clear covers specifically. G.S. 20-63(g) makes it an infraction to cover a plate…

North Carolina has no statute regulating radar detectors in a private passenger vehicle. The words radar and detector appear nowhere in the 868 sections of Chapter 20, the Motor…

North Carolina lets you run studded tires on any day of the year. G.S. 20-122(b) permits studs on regular and snow tires "for increased safety" so long as they project no more than one…

North Carolina allows aftermarket tint on any window except the windshield down to 35% total light transmission, with reflectance of 20% or less and no red, yellow or amber film. The…