Greensboro, NC Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

' That duty sits alongside related open-area standards in the same section, yards, courts, parking lots, and driveways must be kept clean and free of physical hazards, garbage, junk, junked vehicles, and vehicle parts; there can be no heavy undergrowth or plant growth accumulation that is noxious or that, because it's overgrown, may provide harborage for criminal activity; and adequate lighting must be maintained to prevent harborage. Surface and subsurface water must be properly drained to prevent stagnant pools, another rodent and mosquito breeding driver the code targets directly.

00 per day) for a repeat violation at the same property within a rolling 12-month period. The related residential housing code reinforces the same duty for dwellings, § 11-9(a)(3) makes an occupant responsible for exterminating insects or rodents when their unit alone in the building is infested and the owner has provided a reasonably pest-proof building, while § 6-332(g)(3) requires interior surfaces to be free of infestation as well.