NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 395

SENATE BILL 185

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 115‑126 TO AUTHORIZE BOARDS OF EDUCATION TO GRANT EASEMENTS FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES TO SCHOOL PROPERTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115‑126, Subsection (f), is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(f)       In addition to the foregoing, county and city boards of education are hereby authorized and empowered, in their sound discretion, to grant easements to any public utility, municipality or quasi-municipal corporation to furnish utility services to school property, with or without compensation except the benefits accruing by virtue of the location of the said public utility, and to dedicate portions of any lands owned by such boards as rights‑of‑way for public streets, roads or sidewalks, with or without compensation except the benefits accruing by virtue of the location or improvement of such public streets, roads or sidewalks."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1961.