NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 1117

HOUSE BILL 1298

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF ROCKY MOUNT TO SELL CERTAIN LAND THAT IS NOT NEEDED FOR MUNICIPAL PURPOSES.

WHEREAS, the City of Rocky Mount is the owner of a 5.1-acre parcel of land within its corporate limits in Edgecombe County; and

WHEREAS, said land is not needed for municipal purposes; and

WHEREAS, said land is ideally adaptable for use as a site of a United States Army Reserve Training Center and such use is to and for the benefit of the City of Rocky Mount and its citizens: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The governing body of the City of Rocky Mount, in the exercise of its discretion, is hereby authorized to sell at private sale that certain 5.1-acre parcel of land located within its corporate limits in Edgecombe County more particularly described as follows:

BEGINNING at a point in the western right-of-way line of Fairview Road, said point being 1793.8 feet (measured along the western right-of-way line of Fairview Road) North of the northeast corner of the Levi Braswell subdivision (or now the northeast corner of lot now owned by Marvin F. Gurganus); thence making an interior angle of 90 degrees and in a westerly direction 435 feet to an iron stake; thence making an interior angle of 90 degrees and in a northerly direction 380 feet to an iron stake; thence making an interior angle of 122 degrees 13 minutes; and in a northeasterly direction 514.1 feet to an iron stake, said stake being in the western right-of-way line of Fairview Road; thence making an interior angle of 57 degrees 47 minutes and in a southerly direction along the western right-of-way line of Fairview Road, 654 feet to the point of beginning.

The terms and conditions of said sale shall be such as said governing body of said city deems appropriate and the mayor and city clerk of said city, upon being authorized by said governing body are hereby empowered to execute such deeds or other instruments necessary thereto.

Sec. 2. No sale of said property shall be had until notice thereof shall have been given to the public by publishing the same once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper published in the City of Rocky Mount and a public hearing held in relation thereto, the first publication of said notice to be at least ten days prior to the public hearing. Such notice shall state (1) the intention of said governing body to consummate the sale of said land, (2) a brief description of the property, (3) the terms of the proposed sale, (4) the time and place of the public hearing, and (5) that any citizen objecting to the proposed sale may present his objection at the public hearing.

Sec. 3. Section 59 of Chapter 160 of the General Statutes of North Carolina and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict shall be inapplicable to the transactions herein authorized.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1959.