AN ACT to provide that bertie, COLUMBUS, and greene counties, and the town of windsor may purchase and convey property to the state of north carolina for use as correctional facilities.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 600 of the 1995 Session Laws, as amended by S.L. 2000‑31, reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.(a)  The Counties of Alexander, Anson, Bertie, Columbus, Greene, Scotland, and Stanly have power under general law to acquire real and personal property and convey it to the State under G.S. 160A‑274 or other applicable law for use as correctional facilities.
Section 1.(b)  The Town of Windsor has the power under the general law to acquire real and personal property and convey it to the State under G.S. 160A-274 or other applicable law for use as a correctional facility.  It may acquire that property by eminent domain, and such power under this subsection is supplementary to any other power it may have to take property by eminent domain."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 22nd day of August, 2002.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives