GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 566
SENATE BILL 1267

AN ACT TO ADD NEW HANOVER COUNTY TO THOSE COUNTIES IN WHICH A TENANT'S REFUSAL TO PERFORM A CONTRACT FOR THE RENTAL OF LAND IS GROUNDS FOR DISPOSSESSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 42-27 reads as rewritten:
"§ 42-27.  Local:  Refusal to perform contract ground for dispossession.
When any tenant or cropper who enters into a contract for the rental of land for the current or ensuing year willfully neglects or refuses to perform the terms of his contract without just cause, he shall forfeit his right of possession to the premises.  This section applies only to the following counties:  Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Burke, Cabarrus, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Chatham, Chowan, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Davidson, Duplin, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Gates, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Jackson, Johnston, Jones, Lee, Lenoir, Martin, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Polk, Randolph, Robeson, Rockingham, Rowan,  Rutherford, Sampson, Stokes, Surry, Swain, Tyrrell, Union, Wake, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wilson, Yadkin."
Sec. 2.  This act applies only to New Hanover County.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies to contracts entered into on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of June, 1996.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives