NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 290

HOUSE BILL 326

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY FOR ACCESS ROADS TO SCHOOL BUILDINGS SUITABLE FOR SCHOOL BUSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115-125 is hereby amended and rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 115-125.  Acquisition of sites. — County and city boards of education may acquire suitable sites for schoolhouses or other school facilities either within or without the administrative unit; but no school may be operated by an administrative unit outside its own boundaries, although other school facilities such as repair shops, may be operated outside the boundaries of the administrative unit. Whenever any such board is unable to acquire or enlarge a suitable site or right-of-way for a school, school building, school bus garage or for a parking area or access road suitable for school buses or for other school facilities by gift or purchase, condemnation proceedings to acquire same may be instituted by such board under the provisions of Article 2, Chapter 40 of the General Statutes, and the determination of the county or city board of education of the land necessary for such purposes shall be conclusive; provided that not more than a total of 50 acres shall be acquired by condemnation for any one site for a schoolhouse or other school facility as aforesaid."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of May, 1971.