GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

CHAPTER 640

SENATE BILL 221

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE WAKE COUNTY TO EXERCISE THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN UNDER G.S. 40A-42(a) TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND OTHER FACILITIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 40A-3(b) is amended by adding the following new subdivision to read:

"(10)   Public Safety centers including, but not limited to, jails, offices and emergency medical service facilities."

Sec. 2.  The first sentence of G.S. 40A-42(a) is amended to read:

"When a local public condemnor is acquiring property by condemnation for a purpose set out in G.S. 40A-3(b)(1), (4) or (7), or when a city is acquiring property for a purpose set out in G.S. 160A-311(1), (2), (3), (4), (6) or (7), or when a county is acquiring property for a purpose set out in G.S. 153A-274(1), (2), (3) or (5), or G.S. 40A-3(b)(10), title to the property and the right to immediate possession shall vest pursuant to this subsection."

Sec. 3.  This act shall apply only to the County of Wake.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of July, 1985.