§ 153A-364. Periodic inspections for hazardous or unlawful conditions. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 153A‑364. Periodic inspections for hazardous or unlawful conditions.

The inspection department shall make periodic inspections, subject tothe board of commissioners' directions, for unsafe, unsanitary, or otherwisehazardous and unlawful conditions in buildings within its territorialjurisdiction. In addition, it shall make any necessary inspections when it hasreason to believe that such conditions may exist in a particular building. Inexercising these powers, each member of the inspection department has a right,upon presentation of proper credentials, to enter on any premises within theterritorial jurisdiction of the department at any reasonable hour for thepurposes of inspection or other enforcement action. (1969, c. 1066, s. 1; 1973, c. 822, s. 1.)