NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 904

SENATE BILL 560

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE RELATIVE TO CONDEMNATION PROCEDURES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 366 of the Public-Local Laws of 1939, as amended, being the Charter of the City of Charlotte, is hereby further amended by rewriting Section 50 thereof to read as follows:

"Sec. 50. The City of Charlotte is hereby vested with all power and authority now or hereafter granted to municipalities under the laws of North Carolina, with respect to condemnation of property, rights, privileges or easements for public use, and in the exercise thereof the City shall follow the procedures prescribed by the laws of North Carolina, as the same may now or hereafter be enacted; provided, that whenever the City of Charlotte agrees with the State Highway Commission to acquire rights of way for street construction or improvement projects forming or to form a part of the State Highway System, the City shall be vested with the same authority and may follow the same condemnation procedure to acquire such rights of way as is prescribed for the State Highway Commission in Chapter 136 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as now or hereafter amended. The City of Charlotte is also vested with the authority to condemn for public library purposes, property, rights, privileges, easements and restrictive covenants and conditions, including any restrictive covenants and conditions applicable to real estate now or hereafter owned, restricting the use of same in any manner whatsoever."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1963.