NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 401

HOUSE BILL 235

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE EXERCISE OF THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN IN CONNECTION WITH SMALL WATERSHED PROGRAMS IN THE COUNTIES OF STOKES AND YADKIN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 1 1/2 of Chapter 794 of the Session Laws of 1961 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 1 1/2. Power of Eminent Domain Conferred on Counties in Limited Circumstances. A county which has been authorized to levy a watershed improvement tax, whether pursuant to Article 3 of Chapter 139 of the General Statutes, or by special Act or otherwise, shall have for purposes of its county watershed improvement program the powers conferred upon watershed improvement districts by Section 1 of this Act (as the same may be amended from time to time), subject to the limitations and procedures prescribed therein. For this purpose a county shall be considered a watershed improvement district, and the board of county commissioners shall be considered the trustees of the applicant district."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to Stokes and Yadkin Counties.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1963.