Granville County, NC Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

Section 38-107 governs the county-owned municipal solid waste landfill, and subsection (e) is direct: no person may loiter or rummage about the landfill or remove articles from it. The same section bars depositing material anywhere except where authorized agents or official signs indicate, § 38-107(f), and separately bars discharging firearms, fireworks or explosives on landfill property, § 38-107(g). Only county residents can use the landfill's convenience sites at all, per § 38-107(a), and the attendant can ask for identification to confirm residency before letting anyone in, § 38-107(b).

Section 38-113 covers the smaller neighborhood drop-off points instead of the main landfill, and it carries its own loitering ban in subsection (e): no person shall loiter and/or congregate on any container site property, and no vehicle shall be left unattended on such property. That subsection sits alongside a ban on removing contents from the containers, § 38-113(g), and a residency requirement matching the landfill's, § 38-113(h): only persons residing in the county can use a convenience site at all.

Both loitering bans are scoped to solid waste property, the landfill and the container sites, not to streets, parks or private property generally; Granville County's Code has no separate general loitering offense in Chapter 35, Offenses. Section 38-103(c) puts the solid waste director in charge of enforcing both articles, and neither subsection sets its own fine, so a violation defaults to the general civil penalty procedure in Code § 1-6.