GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION
CHAPTER 199
AN ACT TO REMOVE THE FIFTY ACRE LIMITATION ON CONDEMNING PROPERTY FOR A SCHOOL SITE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 115C-517 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C-517. Acquisition of sites.
Local boards of education may acquire suitable sites for
schoolhouses or other school facilities either within or without the local school
administrative unit; but no school may be operated by a local school
administrative unit outside its own boundaries, although other school
facilities such as repair shops, may be operated outside the boundaries of the
local school administrative unit. Whenever any such board is unable to
acquire or enlarge a suitable site or right-of-way for a school, school
building, school bus garage or for a parking area or access road suitable for
school buses or for other school facilities by gift or purchase, condemnation
proceedings to acquire same may be instituted by such board under the
provisions of Chapter 40A of the General Statutes, and the determination of the
local board of education of the land necessary for such purposes shall be conclusive:
Provided, that not more than a total of 50 acres shall be acquired by
condemnation for any one site for a schoolhouse or other school facility as
aforesaid. conclusive."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of June, 1995.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives