GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 611
HOUSE BILL 1904

AN ACT TO ALLOW MACON AND HAYWOOD COUNTIES TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY FOR USE BY THEIR COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION AND TO AUTHORIZE THE MACON AND HAYWOOD COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION TO CONVEY PROPERTY TO THEIR COUNTIES IN CONNECTION WITH IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIR OF THE PROPERTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 2 of Chapter 885 of the 1989 Session Laws, as amended by Chapters 120, 533, 832, 848, 865, and 1001 of the 1991 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 2.  This act applies only to Macon, Bladen, Cabarrus, Carteret, Columbus, Duplin, Franklin, Haywood, Iredell, Pender, Richmond, Rowan, Sampson, and Stanly Counties."
Section 1.1.  G.S. 153A-157 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(a1)	A county may construct, equip, expand, improve, renovate, or otherwise make available property for use by a school administrative unit within the county."
Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 115C-518 and G.S. 160A-274, a local board of education may lease or sell any of its property to the board of commissioners of the county in which the property is located for any price negotiated between the two boards.
Sec. 3.  Sections 1.1 and 2 of this act apply only to Macon and Haywood Counties and to local boards of education for school administrative units in or for Macon and Haywood Counties.  Section 2 of this act applies only to sales and leases of property in connection with additions, improvements, renovations, or repairs to the property or to some part of the property.
Sec. 4.  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