GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 115

SENATE BILL 134

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO DESIGNATE STATE TRAILS BY WRITTEN AGREEMENTS WITH PRIVATE LANDOWNERS AND OTHER UNITS OF GOVERNMENT WITHOUT REQUIRING THE DEPARTMENT TO POSSESS AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 113A-87 reads as rewritten:

"§ 113A-87.  Authority to designate trails.

The Department may establish and designate State scenic and recreation trails components of the North Carolina Trails System on (i)           lands administered by the Department; or on lands, (ii) lands under the jurisdiction of a State department, political subdivision, or federal agency agency, or (iii) private lands providing; provided, fee-simple title, or lesser estates, scenic easements, easements of surface ingress and egress running with the land or, leases, or other written agreements are obtained from landowners through which a State trail may pass."

Sec. 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 1991.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of May, 1991.

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James C. Gardner

President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives