NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 516

SENATE BILL 25

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 115-125 RELATING TO THE CONDEMNATION OF LAND FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES SO AS TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM SIZE OF SUCH SITES TO FIFTY ACRES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 115-125 is rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:

"County and city boards of education may acquire suitable sites for school houses or other school facilities either within or without the administrative unit; but no school may be operated by an administrative unit outside its own boundaries, although other school facilities such as repair shops, may be operated outside the boundaries of the administrative unit. Whenever any such board is unable to acquire or enlarge a suitable site for a school, school building, school bus garage or for a parking area for school buses or for other school facilities by gift or purchase, condemnation proceedings to acquire same may be instituted by such board under the provisions of Article 2, Chapter 40 of the General Statutes, and the determination of the county or city board of education of the land necessary for such purposes shall be conclusive; provided that not more than a total of fifty (50) acres shall be acquired by condemnation for any one site for a schoolhouse or other school facility as aforesaid."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1969.