NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1046

HOUSE BILL 1278

AN ACT AMENDING G.S. 153-26 RELATING TO THE DRAINAGE OF SWAMPLANDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 156-26, as the same appears in Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is amended by inserting after the word "lowlands" and before the word "then" in line 6 thereof the following: "or shall, by written agreement, contract with any person, firm or corporation to cut or dig any main drainway through such swamp or lowlands,".

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1969.