Frequently Asked Questions

The city budget is posted on the website each year, along with financial reviews of each fiscal year. CLICK HERE to view these documents. 

Ritchie Haynes is the Lincolnton City Manager. You can contact the city manager at (704) 736-8980.

Citizens can voice their concerns by using the Submit a Request link on the home page.

You may request records by using the Submit a Request link to the department.

Information regarding City of Lincolnton Boards & Commissions is available at THIS LINK.

Parking tickets may be paid at the Utility Billing office at City Hall, 114 West Sycamore between 8:30a-5:00p.

Tickets may also be paid online:

Motor vehicle crash reports can be obtained from the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. 

Crash reports can be requested by completing the Crash Report Request Form (TR-67A) and mailing it along with payment to the address on the form. 

You may also go to the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles headquarters at 1100 New Bern Ave., Raleigh, NC 27697.  There is a fee of $5.50 for a certified copy of a crash report.

NCDMV Crash Report - Form TR-67A

All golf carts must be registered each year to operate on city streets. The Golf Cart Registration Packet including requirements, forms, & process is at this LINK. 

There are five ways to pay your bill; by Mail, In Person, Night Depository, Bank Draft or Online. Details on each of these methods can be found on the Utility Billing webpage.

Complete the application for Residential or Business Service and return it to the Utility Department at City Hall, 114 West Sycamore Street.

This information is available by calling City Hall at 704-736-8980 or by looking at the City Fee Schedule.

No, you do not have to be a City resident. Please see fee schedule as different rates apply to inside residents and outside residents.

All burial plots must be paid in full at the time of purchase. Methods of payment include cash, check or credit card (Visa, MasterCard or Discover).

The funeral home charges this fee for the initial interment. 
The City does charge a re-opening fee for disinterments. 

No. Monuments and foot markers must be purchased through a monument company.

Yes. The City removes all Christmas flowers two weeks prior to Easter Sunday each year. The cemetery sexton reserves the right to remove expired floral arrangements from the burial plot.

To find out if your property is located within the City limits, you may visit the Lincoln County Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping web site. Once you have located your parcel, the property record will appear on the left side of the screen. It will indicate whether the site lies within the city limits. Properties located within the city limits appear in light green on the County map. You can also contact the City of Lincolnton Planning Department at 704-736-8930 or the Lincoln County Planning Department 704-736-8440 to determine if the property is located within the city limits.

No, however before installation, you need to ensure that the fence is located entirely on your property and not on any right-of-way, utility easement, on an adjoining property, or inside an intersection site triangle.  There are some restrictions regarding the height of the fence. Fences typically cannot exceed 6 feet in height if located within residential districts. Fences can be placed on the property line. You should check your boundary survey to determine the property line and the location of any utility easements. 

You can file any code concerns by filling out the Code Enforcement Complaint Form on our documents page and sending to the Lincolnton Planning Department. You also may contact the Zoning Administrator at 704-736-8729 or by email under the Staff Directory to file a complaint.

You can obtain an application for a change in zoning or for a conditional zoning on the City’s web site. However, you should also discuss the application with Planning Staff prior to filing.

An employment application can be completed online on the website for open positions. If you require assistance with completing the online application, contact the Human Resources department for assistance at (704) 736-8980.

Our application form is the basis for candidate evaluation and interview selection, and the application must be completed in full for it to submit electronically for consideration. You may refer to the resume on the employment data section of the application only if all of the information requested on the application is on the resume, which should be uploaded as supporting documentation. Incomplete information may result in disqualification of the application.

Applications are only accepted for positions when they are posted.

You must meet the stated deadline to be eligible for consideration for any position.

The recruitment process can be impacted by several factors which include the nature of the job being recruited for, the volume of applications received the workload of the department, holiday breaks, and other unforeseen interruptions.

After the closing date, applications are reviewed to determine if minimum requirements are met. Applications that do not meet minimum requirements are no longer considered. The remaining applications are again reviewed to determine which ones have the highest level of qualifications as required by the job description and are contacted to continue in the recruitment process.

Employment opportunities are available through our Human Resources Jobs-Career Portal webpage and the Employment Security Commission located at 529 North Aspen Street. Employment opportunities are also posted in the lobby of City Hall.

Please call 811 or visit  http://www.nc811.org/.

Please see Budgets & Financial Reports webpage.

Ritchie Haynes is the Lincolnton City Manager. You may contact the city manager at (704) 736-8980.

Ritchie Haynes is the Lincolnton City Manager. You can contact the City Manager at (704) 736-8980.

Please see the City Budget webpage & related documents.

Parking tickets may be paid at City Hall located at 114 West Sycamore Street Monday through Friday (except during holidays) between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

You may also pay online at this link: Lincolnton Parking Tickets

**The Police Department does not accept any payments for citations.**

This information is available online in the FEE SCHEDULE. You may also call the Utility Billing department at 704-736-8980.

Information on how to establish new utility accounts is available at THIS LINK. 

You must complete the application for Residential or Business service and return it (with identification) to the Utility Department on the first floor of City Hall at 114 West Sycamore Street.

There are five ways to pay your bill; Online, Bank Draft, by Mail, In Person, or Night Depository. Details on each of these methods can be found at THIS LINK.

Contact the Utility Billing office at 704-736-8980 to have your account reviewed.

Please call 811 or visit NC811 at THIS LINK.

Only plastic triangle types #1, #2 and #5. No other plastic can be recycled. Thin plastics like clear food packaging (ex. Saran Wrap), 6-pack rings, baggies, and bread/frozen food/dry cleaning/grocery bags get tangled in the recycling equipment and cause machinery damage. Soiled paper (food debris, grease) can't be recycled with clean paper pulp since the grease can't be removed. Look for the "triangle" symbol and number on items before recycling.

NO, recycling will be picked up once per month, generally on the First Friday of each month. The service starts Friday June 7, 2019.

DO NOT place your recycling roll-out at the curb with your regular garbage. And DO NOT place any regular household waste in the recycling roll-out.

Many items can be considered contaminants. Contamination happens when non-recyclable items are mixed in with recyclable items; the wrong materials are put into the system (plastic grocery bags, hoses, propane tanks, etc.) or the right materials are prepared the wrong way (recyclables in plastic bags, food left in containers, etc.). Placing regular household waste in the recycling bin is a major cause of contamination.

Innocent looking paper smeared with food or grease cannot be processed with clean paper. So used napkins, paper plates, pizza boxes are NOT recyclable. Plastic grocery bags get tangled in recycling machinery and cause equipment damage. Plastic six-pack rings get tangled and also cause equipment damage.

Stick to the list of acceptable recycling materials and don't put anything else into your recycling bin. Too much contamination is the reason manufacturers reject tons of recyclables each year.

When in doubt, leave it out - and put in the trash.   

The simple answer is weight and sorting. Glass weighs too much, especially in a "single stream" or co-mingled recycling program. In addition, the glass recycling market has declined. 

Municipalities used to be paid for their recycling loads, which helped subsidize the cost of the recycling program. Now the City of Lincolnton actually pays a "tipping fee" to unload recycling at a MRF (Materials Recovery Facility). Tipping fees are based on weight and paid by the ton of material. So, although glass is 100% recyclable, the cost to add heavy, unsorted glass to Lincolnton recycling loads is too expensive for the city and taxpayers until the market recovers. The city monitors the recycling market and hopes to add glass back to our residential curbside recycling program when the glass market improves. 

City residents are encouraged to drop off pre-sorted glass recycling at any of the Lincoln County Convenience Sites.

If the pizza box hasn't been used and it's a CLEAN pizza box, it can be recycled. Once a pizza has been placed in the box, there is residual grease and food material left in the box. So the food material that seeps into the cardboard make it a DO NOT recycle item. 

Veteran Car Donations specializes in car donations to benefit veterans. They accept both working and non-working vehicles to provide assistance to veterans and their families. If you'd like to learn more about this resource, here is the link:https://www.veterancardonations.org/locations/north-carolina