NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 428

HOUSE BILL 815

AN ACT TO CONFER THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY TO OBTAIN, WIDEN, EXTEND OR IMPROVE STREETS, ALLEYS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER SUCH PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. In addition to any power conferred by any other general law or local act, the county commissioners of Mecklenburg County are hereby granted and do hereby possess the power of eminent domain, to acquire by condemnation the fee or any lesser interest in property for the purpose of opening, widening, extending or improving streets, alleys, sidewalks, and any other such public rights-of-way.

Sec. 2. In exercising the power of eminent domain for the purposes set out in Section 1 of this act, the county commissioners of Mecklenburg County shall follow any procedure authorized to counties by general law.

Sec. 3. This act shall apply only to Mecklenburg County.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of May, 1973.