NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 932

SENATE BILL 441

 

 

AN ACT AMENDING THE URBAN REDEVELOPMENT LAW SO AS TO CLARIFY AND IMPROVE CONDEMNATION PROCEDURES, AND TO AUTHORIZE PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION OF REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION MEMBERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Section 160-464 of the General Statutes is amended by rewriting lines 1 and 2 of subdivision (e)(4) of said Section, as the same appears in the 1965 Supplement to the 1964 Replacement Volume 3D, to read as follows:

"(4)      After a public hearing advertised in accordance with the provisions of § 160‑463(e), and subject to the approval of the gov-".

Sec. 2.  Section 160-465 of the General Statutes is amended by inserting the following new subdivision (1); by renumbering the existing subdivisions (1), (2), (3), and (4) as (2), (3), (4), and (5); and by making corresponding changes in line 45 of said Section as the same appears in the 1965 Supplement to the 1964 Replacement Volume 3D.

"(1)      Upon the request in writing of any party to the proceeding submitted as part of the Petition or of any answer thereto, the Clerk of Superior Court shall order and preside over a formal hearing before the commissioners of appraisal at the time of their first meeting. At such hearing any party or his attorney shall be afforded an opportunity to present such competent evidence as he may choose relating to the value of the property in question."

Sec. 3.  Section 160-465 of the General Statutes is amended by adding the following sentence at the end of the renumbered subdivision (2) of such Section, which appears as subdivision (1) in the 1965 Supplement to the 1964 Replacement Volume 3D.

"Payment into court of this amount shall not prejudice the right of the commission to take an appeal as to the amount of compensation payable for the property."

Sec. 4.  Section 160-459 of the General Statutes is amended by deleting the words "no compensation" in line 7 of said Section and substituting the words "such compensation, if any, as the municipal governing board may provide" and by substituting the word "and" for the word "but" in said line.

Sec. 5.  Should any Section, clause, or provision of this Act be declared by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the Act as a whole nor of any part thereof other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.

Sec. 6.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.

Sec. 7.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of June, 1967.