GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 871
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 40A-42(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) 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) or (3), or when a condemnor is acquiring property by condemnation as authorized by G.S. 40A-3(c)(8), (9), (10) or (12), title to the property and the right to immediate possession shall vest pursuant to this subsection. Unless an action for injunctive relief has been initiated, title to the property specified in the complaint, together with the right to immediate possession thereof, shall vest in the condemnor upon the filing of the complaint and the making of the deposit in accordance with G.S. 40A-41."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9th day of July, 1990.