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

Moore County's Solid Waste Container Ordinance, adopted October 5, 1989 under Chapters 153A-121 and 153A-136 of the North Carolina General Statutes, governs the drop-off sites the county's Solid Waste Department operates throughout unincorporated Moore County. Section 8-185 makes it unlawful to loiter or congregate on container site property and separately bars leaving a vehicle unattended there; an abandoned vehicle is towed away at the owner's expense, not the county's. 00 reward for catching anyone who burns one, Section 8-184 bans scavenging, climbing on or damaging a container, and Section 8-182 lists what may never go into a container, including oil, poisons, chemicals, tires and lead-acid batteries.

Section 8-186 requires solid waste to be placed in, not around, a container. These sites, defined in Section 8-176 as any place the Moore County Solid Waste Department owns, leases or operates for collecting refuse, are limited under Section 8-181 to residential waste and designated recyclables from county residents during posted operating hours; contract haulers must use the landfill or transfer station instead. S. 14-4, with each day of a continuing violation charged as a separate offense.