NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 846

HOUSE BILL 1473

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 869, SESSION LAWS OF 1975 TO CLARIFY THE EXERCISE OF THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN BY THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Chapter 869, Session Laws of 1975, is amended by rewriting Section 3.5 thereof to read as follows:

"In exercising the power of eminent domain for any purpose for which it is authorized to exercise such power, the City of Fayetteville, the Town of Spring Lake, and the County of Cumberland are vested with the authority, and authorized to use the provisions and procedures of Article 9, Chapter 136 of the General Statutes, subject to the provisions of Section 1 of this act, and wherever the words 'Department of Transportation' appear in Article 9, they shall be deemed to include 'municipality', 'municipal governing body', 'county or county commissioners'."

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1977.