GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-164
HOUSE BILL 831

AN ACT REQUIRING THE CONSENT OF YANCEY COUNTY BEFORE LAND MAY BE CONDEMNED OR ACQUIRED BY A UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT OUTSIDE THE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-15(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	This section applies to Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Burke, Buncombe, Caldwell, Caswell, Catawba, Cleveland, Columbus, Cumberland, Davidson, Davie, Duplin, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Graham, Granville, Harnett, Haywood, Henderson, Hoke, Iredell, Jackson, Johnston, Lee, Lincoln, Madison, Martin, McDowell, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender, Person, Robeson, Rockingham, Rowan, Sampson, Scotland, Stokes, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties only. This section does not apply as to any:
(1)	Condemnation; or
(2)	Acquisition of real property or an interest in real property
by a city where the property to be condemned or acquired is within the corporate limits of that city."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9th day of June, 1997.
s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives