State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > North-carolina > Chapter_121 > GS_121-18§121‑18. Closing streets and including area in restoration project;acquiring area originally included in Palace grounds.
Whereas the said Tryon'sPalace and grounds originally included all of that area in the City of New Bernknown and designated as George Street between Pollock and South Front Streets,and the title thereto is in the State of North Carolina, subject to theeasement for use of said street, and the use of such portion of said GeorgeStreet is essential for a proper restoration of Tryon's Palace, when thegoverning body of the City of New Bern under its general authority imposed bylaw shall close George Street between Pollock and South Front Streets, or suchportion thereof as may be found by the Commission herein authorized to beessential for the purposes of such restoration, the area within such closedstreet shall be thereafter used exclusively for the restoration of Tryon'sPalace. Provided, that the Department of Cultural Resources is authorized andempowered, in its discretion, to acquire for the use of said Tryon's Palacesuch part of the area in the City of New Bern originally included in the Palacegrounds as may be deemed reasonably necessary for the restoration of saidPalace. (1945, c. 791, s. 5; 1949, c. 233, s. 3; 1955, c. 543,s. 8; 1973, c. 476, s. 48.)
