NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 702

HOUSE BILL 987

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1, CIVIL PROCEDURE - LIMITATIONS, OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 1-52 is amended by adding a new subdivision (17) at the end thereof:

"(17)    Against a public utility, electric or telephone membership corporation, or a municipality for damages or for compensation for right-of-way or use of any lands for a utility service line or lines to serve one or more customers or members unless an inverse condemnation action or proceeding is commenced within three years after the utility service line has been constructed or by October 1, 1984, whichever is later."

Sec. 2. This act is effective October 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1981.