GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

SESSION LAW 2009-258

HOUSE BILL 566

AN ACT to authorize the city of monroe to take immediate POSSESSION of property condemned for the charlotte-monroe executive airport.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 40A-42(a)(1) reads as rewritten:

"(a)       (1)        Standard Provision. - 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), (6), (7), or (9), or when a county is acquiring property for a purpose set out in G.S. 153A-274(1), (2) or (3), or when a local board of education or any combination of local boards of education is acquiring property for any purpose set forth in G.S. 115C-517, or when a condemnor is acquiring property by condemnation as authorized by G.S. 40A-3(c)(8), (9), (10), (12), or (13) 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."

SECTION 2.  This act applies only to the City of Monroe, for the taking of property for the Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9^th day of July, 2009.

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives