NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 895
HOUSE BILL 948

AN ACT TO PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL PROCEDURE BY WHICH THE CITY OF WINSTON‑SALEM MAY ACQUIRE PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES BY EMINENT DOMAIN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. In addition to any other procedure available to the City of Winston‑Salem under its Charter or the general law, the City of Winston‑Salem shall have the right to acquire any land, easement or interest in land for any public purpose for which the City of Winston‑Salem is authorized to acquire same by condemnation, both within and outside its corporate limits, by proceeding in accordance with the provisions of Article 9 entitled "Condemnations" of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as same is now written and as hereafter amended. In applying said Article 9 to the City of Winston‑Salem, the words "City of Winston‑Salem" shall be substituted for all references in said Article to the State Highway Commission; the words "Mayor or City Manager" shall be substituted for all references to the "Chairman of the State Highway Commission", "Director of the State Highway Commission", "Director of Highways, State Highway Commission, in Raleigh" or other similar reference; "Winston‑Salem" shall be substituted for "Raleigh"; and "public purposes" or an appropriate reference to the particular project of the City for which the land, easement or an interest therein is being acquired shall be substituted for "highway purposes", "highway project", "highway" or other similar reference.
Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to the City of Winston‑Salem, to provide to said City an additional procedure by which it may acquire property for public purposes by eminent domain. This Act shall not be construed as amending Article 9 of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes except with respect to proceedings instituted by the City of Winston‑Salem under the authority of this Act.
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of June, 1967.