§ 146-80. Statute of limitations. - North Carolina Statutes

§146‑80.  Statute of limitations.

No statute of limitationsshall affect the title or mar the action of the State, or of any State agency,or of its assigns, unless the same would protect the person holding andclaiming adversely against the State. Neither the State nor any State agency,nor its assigns, shall commence any action for the recovery of damages fortimber cut and removed from lands owned by the State or by any State agency orfor any other act of trespass committed on such lands, more  than 10 yearsafter the occurrence of such cutting, removal, or other  act of trespass. Theprovisions of this section shall not have the effect of reviving any cause ofaction which was, at the date of ratification of this Chapter, barred by anyapplicable statute of limitations. (1842, c. 36, s. 5; R.C., c.66, s. 25; Code, s. 2528; Rev., s. 4048; 1917, c. 287; C.S., s. 7618; G.S., s.146‑91; 1959, c.  683, s. 1.)