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

Section 9-1-102 of the Greenville City Code sets the Minimum Housing Code's standards for controlling insects, rodents and infestations. Subsection (A) requires every dwelling to have supplied and installed screens on every door opening directly to outdoor space, exempting sliding doors, self-closing doors, mobile home doors with self-closers, and doors into rooms that are artificially ventilated or air conditioned year-round. The same screening requirement extends to every window or other opening to outdoor space, with the same exemption for spaces kept ventilated by an operable heating and air conditioning system.

Subsection (B) is the rodent-specific standard: every basement or cellar window used for ventilation, and any other opening to a basement that could let rodents in, must be fitted with screens or another approved device that effectively prevents entrance. Subsection (C) rounds out the sanitation picture by requiring adequate garbage disposal facilities or storage containers, with at least one 32-gallon outside garbage can required for single-family residences, and places responsibility for garbage removal on the owner, operator or agent in control of the dwelling. Because this sits in the same chapter as the rest of the Minimum Housing Code, a property with unscreened basement openings or missing garbage containers can be cited during a routine or complaint-driven inspection by the Code Enforcement Supervisor, and folded into the same repair-order process used for other habitability deficiencies.