Any lands acquired, owned, controlled, or occupied by such cities, towns, and/or counties, for the purposes enumerated in G.S. 63-2, 63-3 and 63-4, shall and are hereby declared to be acquired, owned, controlled and occupied for a public purpose, and such cities, towns and/or counties shall have the right to acquire property for such purpose or purposes under the power of eminent domain as and for a public purpose.
History
(1929, c. 87, s. 5.)
Legal Periodicals. - For comment on Vance County v. Royster, 271 N.C. 53, 155 S.E.2d 790 (1967), see 46 N.C.L. Rev. 188 (1967).
For article on recent developments in North Carolina law of eminent domain, see 48 N.C.L. Rev. 767 (1970).