Any lands acquired, owned, controlled, or occupied by said cities, and counties, for the purposes enumerated in section two [34] hereof, or which may be later acquired for said purposes, shall and are hereby declared to be acquired, owned, controlled and occupied for a public purpose, and said cities and counties shall have the right to acquire property for such purposes under the power of eminent domain as and for a public purpose.
(Session Laws 1945, Ch. 451, § 3)
Statutory reference:
Right to own/acquire property, see G.S. §§ 63-5
and 63-6