Greenville, NC Rental Property Rules: Rental Registration (2026)

Article 6 of the city's Related Local Laws, ratified as Session Law 2001-104 and applicable to Greenville alone, gives the City Council authority to require every owner of rental property within the city limits to name a local agent to accept service of process. The purpose is administrative: it lets the city serve notice of housing-code and unsafe-building actions brought under Part 5 (minimum housing) and Part 6 (unsafe buildings) of Article 19, Chapter 160A of the General Statutes without having to track down an out-of-town landlord.

The designated agent must reside in Pitt County, and owners file the agent's name and address with the City Clerk on a clerk-supplied form. Any change to that information must reach the Clerk within 10 days of the change. The section carves out one exemption: an owner who personally resides in Pitt County does not have to designate a separate agent, since that owner can be served directly. The provision is framed as authority the City Council "may" exercise by ordinance rather than a self-executing citywide mandate, so property owners should confirm with the City Clerk's office whether an implementing ordinance and filing form are currently in use before assuming no filing is needed.

The rule sits in the charter's miscellaneous local-acts appendix rather than the numbered Part II code, reflecting its origin as a stand-alone act of the General Assembly limited to the City of Greenville rather than a general statewide law that applies to every North Carolina municipality.