GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 608
AN ACT TO PERMIT THE ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY FOR THE DUPLIN COUNTY AIRPORT BY EMINENT DOMAIN WITH IMMEDIATE VESTING OF TITLE AND RIGHT OF POSSESSION IN THE COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 40A-42(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) When a local public
condemnor is acquiring property by condemnation for a purpose set out in G.S.
40A-3(b)(1), (4) or (7), or when a city is acquiring property for a purpose set
out in G.S. 160A-311(1), (2), (3), (4), (6), or (7), or when a county is
acquiring property for a purpose set out in G.S. 153A-274(1), (2) or (3), (2),
(3), or (4) or when a condemnor is acquiring property by condemnation as
authorized by G.S. 40A-3(c)(8), (9), (10) or (12), title to the property and
the right to immediate possession shall vest pursuant to this subsection.
Unless an action for injunctive relief has been initiated, title to the
property specified in the complaint, together with the right to immediate
possession thereof, shall vest in the condemnor upon the filing of the
complaint and the making of the deposit in accordance with G.S. 40A-41."
Sec. 2. This act applies to Duplin County only.
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 1994.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives