19-1.4. Liability of successive owners for continuing nuisance.
After notice of a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, or permanent injunction, every successive owner of property who neglects to abate a continuing nuisance upon, or in the use of such property, created by a former owner, is liable therefor in the same manner as the one who first created it. (1977, c. 819, s. 3.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 19 - Offenses Against Public Morals
Article 1 - Abatement of Nuisances.
§ 19-1 - What are nuisances under this Chapter.
§ 19-1.2 - Types of nuisances.
§ 19-1.3 - Personal property as a nuisance; knowledge of nuisance.
§ 19-1.4 - Liability of successive owners for continuing nuisance.
§ 19-1.5 - Abatement does not preclude action.
§ 19-2.1 - Action for abatement; injunction.
§ 19-2.2 - Pleadings; jurisdiction; venue; application for preliminary injunction.
§ 19-2.4 - Notice of hearing on preliminary injunction; consolidation.
§ 19-2.5 - Hearing on the preliminary injunction; issuance.
§ 19-3 - Priority of action; evidence.
§ 19-4 - Violation of injunction; punishment.
§ 19-5 - Content of final judgment and order.
§ 19-6.1 - Forfeiture of real property.