NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 692

HOUSE BILL 623

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE COUNTIES TO EXPEND TAX FUNDS AND EXERCISE THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN FOR PURPOSES OF PUBLIC AUDITORIUMS, COLISEUMS, AND CONVENTION AND CIVIC CENTERS AND TO OTHERWISE AUTHORIZE ESTABLISHMENT AND SUPPORT OF SAME.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 153A-149(c) as amended by Chapter 66, Session Laws of 1981 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"(6b)    Auditoriums, coliseums, and convention and civic centers - to provide public auditoriums, coliseums, and convention and civic centers."

Sec. 2. G.S. 153A-159 is amended by adding to the purposes for which the power of eminent domain may be exercised the following additional purpose:

"(8)      Establishing, enlarging, constructing, or improving public auditoriums, coliseums, and convention and civic centers pursuant to G.S. 160A-489."

Sec. 3. G.S. 153A-445(a) is amended by adding subparagraph (6) which shall read as follows:

"(6)      G.S. 160A-489. - auditoriums, coliseums, and convention and civic centers."

Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1981.