§ 136-44.36B. Power of Department to preserve and acquire railroad corridors. - North Carolina Statutes

§136‑44.36B.  Power of Department to preserve and acquire railroadcorridors.

In exercising its power topreserve railroad corridors, the Department of Transportation may acquireproperty for new railroad corridors and may acquire property that is or has beenpart of a railroad corridor by purchase, gift, condemnation, or other method,provided that the Department may not condemn part of an existing, activerailroad line. The procedures in Article 9 of this Chapter apply when theDepartment condemns property to preserve or acquire a railroad corridor. (1989,c. 600, s. 3; 1991, c. 673, s. 1.)