NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1055

SENATE BILL 1258

 

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF SHADY FOREST.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section  1.  The territory and inhabitants of the area described in Section 2 of this act shall be and constitute a body politic and corporate under the name of the "Town of Shady Forest" and shall be vested with all the powers, rights, authority, privileges and immunities conferred upon municipal corporations by the Constitution and general laws of North Carolina.

Sec. 2. The corporate boundaries of the Town of Shady Forest, until changed in accordance with law, are as follows: Located in Colkins Neck, Shallotte Township, Brunswick County, beginning at a point in the western property line of the International Paper Company, approximately 2,000 feet from the Calabash River, and running thence with said property line S. 20! 30' E. 350 feet to a point; thence S. 75! 43' W. 4,885 feet to the property line of the W. M. Stanaland Estate; thence N. 23! 45' W. 550 feet; thence N. 78! E. 4,938 feet to the point of beginning, as shown on map showing a division of the D. E. Stanaland heirs.

Sec. 3.  Mrs. John L. Foster is hereby appointed as Mayor of the Town of Shady Forest and shall serve until the regular municipal election to be held in 1975.  Perry Lamb, Hamp Leonard, and Arthur Hundley are appointed as members of the Town Council and shall serve until the regular municipal election to be held in 1975.

Sec. 4. The municipal elections shall be nonpartisan and decided by a simple plurality and shall be held and conducted by the Brunswick County Board of Elections in accordance with the applicable provisions of Articles 23 and 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 5. Beginning with the regular municipal election to be held in 1975, a mayor and a Town Council of three members shall be elected by the qualified voters of the town, and they shall serve for terms of two years. Only qualified voters of the town shall be eligible to hold elective office.

Sec. 6. This act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of March, 1974.