GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 358
HOUSE BILL 895

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE GUILFORD COUNTY TO ACQUIRE LAND FOR ROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY FOR CONNECTORS BETWEEN SUBDIVISIONS AND CONNECTORS BETWEEN SUBDIVISIONS AND STATE-MAINTAINED ROADS BY DEDICATION AND ACCEPTANCE, PURCHASE, OR EMINENT DOMAIN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Guilford County may acquire land for road rights-of-way for connectors between subdivisions and State-maintained roads by dedication and acceptance, purchase, or eminent domain.
Sec. 2.  Guilford County may appropriate and spend up to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per project under this act but in no event shall total expenditures for all projects exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) per annum.
Sec. 3.  In order to fund acquisitions authorized by Section 1, Guilford County may use non-ad valorem tax revenues and any other revenues not otherwise restricted by law, including funds authorized by vote of the citizens, to fund the acquisition costs for a project.
Sec. 4.  Guilford County may accept donations and dedication of land or rights-of-way for the purposes set forth in Section 1.
Sec. 5.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit or otherwise interfere with the rights and privileges of the Board of Transportation with respect to any project which is under the authority and control of the Board of Transportation or to authorize or require Guilford County to undertake actual construction or improvement of streets, highways, or thoroughfares.
Sec. 6.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit or otherwise interfere with the rights and privileges of the Board of Transportation with respect to any project which is under the authority and control of the Board of Transportation.
Sec. 7.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of June, 1989.