NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 850

HOUSE BILL 1445

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH RELATING TO THE CIVIC CENTER AND AN AMENDMENT TO THE CIVIC CENTER ACT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The Charter of the City of Raleigh (Chapter 1184 of the Session Laws of North Carolina, 1949, as amended) hereby be amended and same is amended as follows:

(a)       Paragraph (19) of Section 22 is amended by inserting therein after the words "City Hall," the new words "Civic Center,".

Sec. 2. Chapter 992 of the Session Laws of North Carolina, 1971, is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as Section 2A, as follows:

"Sec. 2A. The City of Raleigh or the Raleigh Civic Center Authority, if the Authority is so authorized by the Raleigh City Council, shall have the right to exercise the power of eminent domain and to acquire by condemnation in the same manner as is provided for by Article 2 of Chapter 40, or by Article 11 of Chapter 160A, of the General Statutes of North Carolina, or the procedures of any other general law, charter, or local act applicable to the City, any and all lands, property and interests in property necessary or useful for the construction, establishment, maintenance or operation of the Civic Center."

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of February, 1974.