GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 1591
Senate State Government, Local Government, and Personnel Committee Substitute Adopted 7/30/98

Short Title:  Orange Condemnation Restriction.	(Local)

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May 28, 1998

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT REQUIRING THE CONSENT OF CARTERET, CHATHAM, JONES, AND ORANGE COUNTIES BEFORE LAND IN THOSE COUNTIES MAY BE CONDEMNED OR ACQUIRED BY A UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT OUTSIDE THOSE COUNTIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 153A-15(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	This section applies to Alamance, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Burke, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Davidson, Davie, Duplin, Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Graham, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Haywood, Henderson, Hoke, Iredell, Jackson, Johnston, Jones, Lee, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, Martin, McDowell, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Nash, New Hanover, Onslow, Orange, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Polk, Richmond, Robeson, Rockingham, Rowan, Sampson, Scotland, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties only. This section does not apply as to any:
(1)	Condemnation; or
(2)	Acquisition of real property or an interest in real property by a city where the property to be condemned or acquired is within the corporate limits of that city."
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.