NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1147

HOUSE BILL 193

 

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE PAYMENT OF JUST COMPENSATION BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES REQUIRING THE REMOVAL OF BILLBOARDS WHICH ARE PERMITTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 11 OF CHAPTER 136 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Article 11 of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"§ 136-131.1. Just compensation required for the removal of billboards on federal-aid primary highways by local authorities. - No municipality, county, local or regional zoning authority, or other political subdivision, shall, without the payment of just compensation in accordance with the provisions that are applicable to the Department of Transportation as provided in paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 of G.S. 136-131, remove or cause to be removed any outdoor advertising adjacent to a highway on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways or a highway on the Federal-aid Primary Highway System for which there is in effect a valid permit issued by the Department of Transportation pursuant to the provisions of Article 11 of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification, but shall expire June 30, 1984 and shall have no force or effect after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1982.