FORSYTH COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA ILLEGAL
IMMIGRATION RELIEF ACT ORDINANCE
SECTION 1. – TITLE
This chapter shall be known and may be
cited as the Forsyth County North Carolina Immigration Relief
Act Ordinance."
SECTION 2. - FINDINGS AND
DECLARATION OF PURPOSE
The People of Forsyth County N. C. find
and declare:
A. That illegal immigration leads to
higher crime rates, contributes to overcrowded classrooms and
failing schools, subjects our hospitals to fiscal hardship and
legal residents to substandard quality of care, contributes to
other burdens on public services, increasing their cost and
diminishing their availability to lawful residents, and
diminishes our overall quality of life.
B. That the County of Forsyth N. C. is
authorized to abate public nuisances and empowered and
mandated by the People of Forsyth County to abate the nuisance
of illegal immigration by diligently prohibiting the acts and
policies that facilitate illegal immigration and punishing the
people and businesses that aid and abet illegal aliens.
C. This ordinance seeks to secure to
those lawfully present in the United States and this County,
whether or not they are Citizens of the United States, the
right to live in peace free of the threat of illegal alien
crime, to enjoy the public services provided by this County
without being burdened by the cost of providing goods, support
and services to any whose presence in the United States is
contrary to its laws and to be free of the debilitating
effects on their economic and social well being imposed by the
influx of illegal aliens to the fullest extent that these
goals can be achieved consistent with the Constitution and
Laws of the United States and the state of North Carolina.
SECTION 3. DEFINITIONS
Whenever used in this chapter, the
following terms shall have the following meanings:
"County" means the County of Forsyth
North Carolina.
"Contract employer" means any person who
obtains the services of one or more individuals through a day
labor agency.
"Illegal Alien" means any person whose
initial entry into the United States was illegal and whose
current status is also illegal as well as any person who,
after entering legally, has failed to leave the United States
upon the expiration of his or her visa.
"Legal Work Status" means that a person’s
employment is not in violation of any law of the United
States, the State of North Carolina or this Ordinance.
SECTION 4. BUSINESS PERMITS,
CONTRACTS OR GRANTS
Any entity or any parent, affiliate,
subsidiary or agent of any entity (other than a charity
recognized as exempt from federal income taxation under Sec.
501 of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States and
which has obtained and continues to have in force an exemption
from federal income taxation), that employs, retains, aids or
abets illegal aliens or illegal immigration into the United
States, whether directly or by or through any agent, ruse,
guise, device or means, no matter how indirect, and even if
the agent or entity might otherwise be exempted from this
section, or violates any provision of this Ordinance, shall
from the date of the violation or its discovery, whichever
shall be later, be denied and barred from approval of a
business permit, renewal of a business permit, any County
contract or grant as follows:
(1) For the first violation for a period
of five years,
(2) For any subsequent violation, for a
period of ten years.
A. "Aids or abets" includes, but is not
limited to:
(i) hiring or
attempted hiring of illegal aliens,
(ii)
providing, renting or leasing real or personal property to
illegal aliens, (iii) funding or providing goods and services
to illegal aliens, except as provided in Sec. 4 C.,
(iv) funding,
providing goods and services to or aiding in the establishment
or continuation of any day labor center or other entity
providing similar services, unless the entity acts with due
diligence to verify the legal work status of all persons whom
it employs, provides job assistance for or in any way assists
or facilitates in obtaining any employment.
B. Except as provided in C., any action
or failure to act done within the boundaries of this County
that aids and abets illegal aliens or facilitates their
avoiding detection and apprehension anywhere in the United
States, its territories or possessions violates this
Ordinance.
C. This Ordinance shall not be construed
to prohibit rendering emergency medical care, emergency
assistance or legal assistance.
SECTION 5. RENTING TO ILLEGAL
ALIENS
A. Illegal aliens are prohibited from
leasing or renting property. Any property owner or
renter/tenant/lessee in control of property, who knowingly
allows an illegal alien to use, rent or lease their property
shall be in violation of this section.
B. Any person or entity that violates
this Ordinance shall be subject to a fine of not less than
$5,000.00.
C. A separate violation of this Ordinance
shall be deemed to have been committed on each day during or
on which a violation occurs or continues.
SECTION 6. ENGLISH ONLY
A. The County of Forsyth declares that
English is the official language of the County.
B. Unless explicitly mandated by the
federal government, the state of North Carolina or the County
of Forsyth , all official county business, forms, documents,
signage will be written in English only.
SECTION 7. SEVERABILITY
If any part of provision of this Chapter
is in conflict or inconsistent with applicable provisions of
federal or state statutes, or is otherwise held to be invalid
or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such
part of provision shall be suspended and superseded by such
applicable laws or regulations, and the remainder of this
Chapter shall not be affected thereby.
For more information:
Southern
Party of North Carolina
