GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 624

SENATE BILL 87

AN ACT TO REQUIRE CONSENT OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF LISTED COUNTIES BEFORE LAND MAY BE CONDEMNED OR ACQUIRED BY A UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT OUTSIDE THE COUNTY AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE PROVISIONS OF G.S. 153A-15 IN ANY COUNTY SUBJECT TO THAT SECTION DO NOT APPLY TO PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY THAT IS ACQUIRING THE PROPERTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-15(c) reads as rewritten:

"(c)      This section applies to Anson, Ashe, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Burke, Buncombe, Caldwell, Caswell, Catawba, Cleveland, Columbus, Cumberland, Davidson, Davie, Duplin, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Graham, Granville, Harnett, Haywood, Henderson, Hoke, Iredell, Jackson, Johnston, Lee, Lincoln, Madison, Martin, McDowell, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, New Hanover, Pender, Person, Robeson, Rockingham, Rowan, Sampson, Scotland, Stokes, Swain, Transylvania, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Wilkes counties only.  This section does not apply as to any:

(1) Condemnation; or

(2) Acquisition of real property or an interest in real property

by a city where the property to be condemned or acquired is within the corporate limits of that city."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 1994.

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives