NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 934

HOUSE BILL 1022

 

 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING COUNTIES TO ACQUIRE LAND FOR COURTHOUSES AND JAILS THROUGH THE EXERCISE OF THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  A new subdivision is hereby added to G.S. 153-9, to read as follows:

"Exercise of Power of Eminent Domain. The board of county commissioners of any county is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by condemnation proceedings any and all lands, together with improvements thereon, or interests in lands, reasonably necessary for the purpose of construction, expansion, enlargement, improvement, maintenance and operation of a courthouse or jail. The powers herein granted contemplate that the board of county commissioners shall first be unable to agree with the owners of any lands, or interest in lands, for voluntary sale, purchase, or acquisition, and condemnation may then be had in the same manner and under the same procedure as is provided in Article 2, Chapter 40, of the General Statutes, as the same may from time to time provide."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1965.