Real Estate & Property Law

NC Assembly Forgets to Protect the Property Owner

By Alan Ackerman

As contemplated, the eminent domain process in North Carolina remains as it was.  Usually, the proposed bill placing constitutional limitations banning the use of eminent domain powers for private economic development purposes never even gets out of the first committee.  This year, it moved a little bit further.  The House passed the bill in 2009, but the Senate simply let it die.

If North Carolina has a referenda option, it will need to be exercised for any limitation on private development eminent domain proceedings.  

Kinston.com
 

The Senate took no action on a bill passed in 2009 by the House to modify the state's half-century-old annexation statute. The Senate also let die a House-approved proposed constitutional amendment that would ban the use of eminent domain powers for private economic development purposes.

Full post as published by National Eminent Domain Blog on July 22, 2010 (boomark / email).