FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF NECESSITY.

Raleigh City Code § 12-2162

in effect

Sec. 12-2162. - FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF NECESSITY. (a) Findings: Housing in the City consists of owner occupied and tenant occupied properties and the two types of housing are in general parity. The substantial majority of complaints about and violations of the Code provisions adopted to assure minimum adequate housing arise from tenant occupied property. State law and this Code impose the responsibility to provide minimally adequate housing for tenants on the property owner. Existing remedial measures in the Code are insufficient to achieve prompt Code compliance resulting in significant adverse impacts on the public health, safety, and welfare of the City including the quality of life for tenants, affected neighborhoods and the City. To expedite compliance with the Code at such properties and thereby assure better quality housing for tenants and the neighborhood, the Council finds it necessary to adopt additional remedial measures for more effective compliance with the Code at such properties. (b) Declaration of necessity: It is deemed necessary in order to promote public health, welfare, good order and safety of the City and its residents that persons renting residential properties where there exist certain unsafe building, minimum housing, zoning or nuisance Code violations should be subject to a permitting system. Permitting will: (a) Reduce the likelihood that these residential housing accommodations will become public nuisances in violation of G.S. 19-1(b). (b) Promote responsible management of these housing accommodations. (c) Assist in providing a safe habitat for residents and neighbors of these facilities. (d) Safeguard property values. (e) Reduce the likelihood that housing accommodations where such problems most frequently have arisen and which are unfit for human habitation, dangerous, or injurious to the public will exist or be occupied. (f) Expedite repair of residential housing accommodations where such problems arise. (Ord. No. 2004-720, §1, 10-19-04; Ord. No. 2008-415, §1, 7-1-08)

Source: City of Raleigh, North Carolina, City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/nc/raleigh/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=DIVIICOGEOR_PT12LIRE_CH2BUTR_ARTGPRREOCPE_S12-2162FIDENEFetched: 11/1/2026