GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 2000-88
SENATE BILL 1444

AN ACT TO ALLOW A DESIGN-BUILD CONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR A CONVENTION CENTER IN CABARRUS COUNTY, AND TO ALLOW LEASE OF PROPERTY FOR A HOTEL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes, the City of Concord, the County of Cabarrus, or both, may construct a convention center using the design-build or request-for-proposal method.
Section 2.  In leasing property adjacent to or on the convention center property for a hotel and auxiliary purposes, as to the City of Concord, G.S. 160A-272, as amended by Chapter 355 of the 1985 Session Laws, shall be applied by deleting "20 years" and substituting "49 years".
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of July, 2000.

s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives