Harnett County, NC Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

111(C)(4) regulates recreational campgrounds as a commercial use under the Unified Development Ordinance, and subsection (a)(7) puts an ongoing maintenance duty on the park owner: keep all park-owned facilities, spaces, improvements, equipment, open space, recreational open space, and common areas in good repair, in a manner that prevents the accumulation or storage of material that would cause insect or rodent breeding and harborage, and provide trash receptacles as part of that upkeep. This sits alongside other campground requirements in the same subsection: adequate restroom facilities per the county Health Department's sanitary standards, water and sewage disposal built to the Department of Public Utilities' and Health Department's standards, staff or on-call contact available to campers 24 hours a day, and a flat ban on using a campground as a permanent residence.

Prohibited uses within a recreational campground explicitly include junk motor vehicles and outdoor storage of RVs, boats, lumber, or other construction material, both of which are exactly the kind of clutter that attracts rodents. The county's Departments of Planning Services and Health can inspect a campground for compliance, and because this sits in the zoning code rather than a standalone health ordinance, a rodent-harborage violation is enforced as a land-use violation rather than through a separate health citation.