GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 487
SENATE BILL 568

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS TO ALLOW WATAUGA COUNTY TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY FOR USE BY THE WATAUGA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-158 reads as rewritten:
"§ 153A-158. Power to acquire property.
A county may acquire, by gift, grant, devise, bequest, exchange, purchase, lease, or any other lawful method, the fee or any lesser interest in real or personal property for use by the county or any department, board, commission, or agency of the county or a school administrative unit within the county.  In exercising the power of eminent domain a county shall use the procedures of Chapter 40A."
Sec. 2.  This act applies only to Watauga County.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of June, 1989.