GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1997

SESSION LAW 1998-110
HOUSE BILL 1591

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.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of August, 1998.
s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 10:58 a.m. this 20th day of August, 1998