GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005
SESSION LAW 2005-331
HOUSE BILL 1266
AN ACT to increase the AMOUNT the DEPARTMENT of TRANSPORTATION will pay as relocation ASSISTANCE for REASONABLE expenses for searching for a replacement business or farm, as required by federal regulation.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 133-8(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) Whenever the acquisition of real property for a program or project undertaken by an agency will result in the displacement of any person, such agency shall make a payment to any displaced person, upon application as approved by the head of the agency for:
(1) Actual reasonable expenses in moving himself, his family, business, farm operation, or other personal property;
(2) Actual direct losses of tangible personal property as a result of moving or discontinuing a business or farm operation, but not to exceed an amount equal to the reasonable expenses that would have been required to relocate such property, as determined by the relocation officer; and
(3) Actual reasonable
expenses in searching for a replacement business or farm in accordance with
criteria established by the lead agency, but not to exceed one thousand
dollars ($1,000); two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500); and
(4) Actual reasonable expenses necessary to reestablish a displaced farm, nonprofit organization, or small business at its new site, in accordance with criteria to be established by the lead agency, but not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000)."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of August, 2005.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 11:27 a.m. this 26th day of August, 2005