AN ACT to allow sanitary districts the same power as all other units of local government 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:
"(a)(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 condemnor is acquiring property by condemnation as authorized by G.S. 40A‑3(c)(1), (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.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of June, 2009.

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		 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

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		 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2009