GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-263
SENATE BILL 535

AN ACT REQUIRING THE CONSENT OF CERTAIN COUNTIES BEFORE LAND IN THOSE COUNTIES MAY BE CONDEMNED OR ACQUIRED BY A UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT OUTSIDE THE COUNTY.

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, Caswell, Catawba, 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, Lee, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, Martin, McDowell, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Nash, New Hanover, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Polk, Richmond, Robeson, Rockingham, Rowan, Sampson, Scotland, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, Watauga, and Wilkes 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 25th day of June, 1997.
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 4:08 p.m. this 2nd day of July, 1997