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