NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 666

SENATE BILL 737

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 168 OF PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS 1939, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE RALEIGH-DURHAM AIRPORT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Chapter 168 of Public-Local Laws 1939, as amended, is hereby further amended as follows:

(1)       The second sentence of Section 7(g), as it appears in Chapter 755 of the Session Laws of North Carolina 1959, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"The said bonds, if and when so issued, shall be denominated 'Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority Revenue Bonds' and shall be issued in such form and denomination and shall mature at such time or times, not exceeding 35 years after their date, and shall bear such rate of interest, payable annually or semiannually, as the said Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority may determine."

Sec. 2. Section 7 of Chapter 168 of Public-Local Laws 1939, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding a new subsection (l) immediately following Section 7(k) and immediately prior to Section 8, said subsection 7(l) to read as follows:

"(l)       Private property needed for airport purposes may be acquired by the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority by gift or devise or by purchase if the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority is able to agree with the owners on the terms thereof. In case the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority shall determine that condemnation of real property is necessary for airport purposes, it shall have the right to acquire such property within Wake County or Durham County by condemnation proceedings brought in its own name and without the joinder of the City of Raleigh, the City of Durham, the County of Durham or the County of Wake. The condemnation procedure to be followed shall be the procedure set out and contained in Article 9 of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes of North Carolina. In such case, the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority shall have the same powers, and shall follow the same statutory procedures, in the condemnation of land within Wake County or Durham County for airport purposes as the Board of Transportation does in the condemnation of land under Article 9 of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes of North Carolina for highway purposes. Any pleadings or documents necessary to be served on the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority in such action may be served upon the Chairman or Secretary of the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority or the Airport Director. Title to property so acquired by condemnation shall vest in the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority; provided, however, that no such real property shall be sold or conveyed by the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority without the prior approval of the County of Durham, the County of Wake, the City of Durham and the City of Raleigh."

Sec. 3. Chapter 168 of the Public-Local Laws of 1939, as amended, is further amended by inserting a new Section 8 immediately following Section 7, as amended and immediately prior to the present Section 8, as amended, and by renumbering all succeeding sections of said Chapter 168 as amended, the new Section 8 to read as follows:

"Sec. 8. In the event the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority shall at any time hereafter cease to exist, all assets and properties of any kind then owned or held by the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority shall revert to and become the property of the City of Durham, the City of Raleigh, the County of Durham and the County of Wake, subject to any and all debts, obligations and contractual undertakings applicable thereto."

Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of May, 1979.