GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 608

HOUSE BILL 1704

 

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