GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 735

SENATE BILL 663

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE CONDEMNATION POWERS OF COUNTY WATER AND SEWER DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 162A-89.1 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 162A-89.1.  Eminent domain power authorized. - Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 40A-1, a county water and sewer district shall have the power of eminent domain, to be exercised in accordance with Article 9 of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes, over the acquisition of any improved or unimproved lands or rights in land, within or without the district."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

However, a county water and sewer district may not commence an action pursuant to this act after June 30, 1985.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of July, 1983.