A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allow sanitary districts the same power as all other units of local governments in acquiring property by condemnation for water supply and distribution systems.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 40A‑42(a)(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1)	Standard Provision. – When a local public condemnor is acquiring property by condemnation for a purpose set out in G.S. 40A‑3(b)(1), (4) or (7), or when a city is acquiring property for a purpose set out in G.S. 160A‑311(1), (2), (3), (4), (6), or (7), or when a county is acquiring property for a purpose set out in G.S. 153A‑274(1), (2) or (3), or when a local board of education or any combination of local boards of education is acquiring property for any purpose set forth in G.S. 115C‑517, or when a sanitary district is acquiring property for water supply and distribution systems as authorized by Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes, or when a condemnor is acquiring property by condemnation as authorized by G.S. 40A‑3(c)(8), (9), (10), (12), or (13) title to the property and the right to immediate possession shall vest pursuant to this subsection. Unless an action for injunctive relief has been initiated, title to the property specified in the complaint, together with the right to immediate possession thereof, shall vest in the condemnor upon the filing of the complaint and the making of the deposit in accordance with G.S. 40A‑41."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.