FILED SENATE
Mar 6, 2023
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
S.B. 208
SESSION 2023 PRINCIPAL CLERK
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SENATE BILL DRS45105-LM-49
Short Title: Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority. (Local)
Sponsors: Senator Moffitt (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT CLARIFYING THE TYPE OF PROPERTY THAT SHALL REVERT TO THE
3 ORIGINAL GRANTOR IF THE GREATER ASHEVILLE REGIONAL AIRPORT
4 CEASES TO OPERATE OR THE GREATER ASHEVILLE REGIONAL AIRPORT
5 AUTHORITY IS DISSOLVED.
6 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
7 SECTION 1. Section 1.7(a) of S.L. 2012-121 reads as rewritten:
8 "SECTION 1.7.(a) The Authority is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire from the
9 Counties of Buncombe and Henderson and the City of Asheville, by agreement therewith, and
10 such Counties and City may grant and convey, either by gift or for such consideration as allowed
11 by federal law and as it may be deemed wise, any real and/or personal property which it now
12 owns or may hereafter acquire, and which may be necessary, beneficial, or helpful for the
13 construction, development, operation, and/or maintenance of any airport or facilities of same
14 located in the Counties of Buncombe or Henderson. If the airport ceases to operate or if the
15 Authority is dissolved, any applicable real property of the Counties of Buncombe or Henderson
16 or the City of Asheville conveyed or transferred to the Authority under this act and not
17 subsequently sold or exchanged for another property by the Authority shall revert to the grantor."
18 SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
*DRS45105-LM-49*