NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 460

HOUSE BILL 1000

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 136-18 TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO CONDEMN FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO STATE MAINTAINED SECONDARY ROADS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 136-18, as the same appears in the 1974 Replacement Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision "(26)" at the end thereof to read as follows:

"(26)    The Department of Transportation, at the request of a representative from a board of county commissioners, is hereby authorized to acquire by condemnation new or additional right-of-way to construct, pave or otherwise improve a designated State maintained secondary road upon presentation by said board to the Department of Transportation of a duly verified copy of the minutes of its meeting showing approval of such request by a majority of its members and by the further presentation of a petition requesting such improvement executed by the abutting owners whose frontage on said secondary road shall equal or exceed seventy-five percent (75%) of the linear front footage along the secondary road sought to be improved."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1977.