NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 498

HOUSE BILL 1129

AN ACT TO CODIFY THE RESOLUTION ACCEPTING PROPERTIES IN THE STATE NATURE AND HISTORIC PRESERVE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Article 25B of the General Statutes as the same appears in 1978 Replacement Volume 3C is amended by adding a new section G.S. 143-260.10 to read as follows:

"§ 143-260.10.  Components of State Nature and Historic Preserve. — The following are components of the State Nature and Historic Preserve accepted by the North Carolina General Assembly pursuant to G.S. 143-260.8:

(a)        All lands and waters within the boundaries of the following units of the State Parks System as of March 6, 1979: Bay Tree Lake, Bushy Lake Natural Area, Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, Crowders Mountain State Park, Duke Power Recreation Area, Fort Macon State Park, Goose Creek State Park, Hammocks Beach State Park, Hanging Rock State Park, Hemlock Bluffs Natural Area, Jockeys Ridge State Park, Jones Lake State Park, Lake Waccamaw, Lake Waccamaw State Park, Merchants Millpond State Park, Morrow Mountain State Park, Mount Jefferson State Park, Mount Mitchell State Park, Pilot Mountain State Park, Raven Rock State Park, Theodore Roosevelt Natural Area, Singletary Lake State Park, South Mountains State Park, Stone Mountain State Park, Weymouth Woods‑Sandhills Nature Preserve, and White Lake; Carolina Beach State Park in New Hanover County west of Dow Road, S.R. 1573; Mitchells Millpond Natural Area in Wake County north of S.R. 2224.

(b)        All lands and waters within the boundaries of Eno River State Park and William B. Umstead State Park as of March 6, 1979, with the exception of those tracts recommended for exclusion in the petition of the Council of State dated March 6, 1979, on file with the Secretary of Administration.

(c)        All lands within the boundaries of Pettigrew State Park as of March 6, 1979, with the exception of the tract recommended for exclusion in the petition of the Council of State dated March 6, 1979, on file with the Secretary of Administration.

(d)        All lands and waters located within the boundaries of the following State Historic Sites as of March 6, 1979: Alamance Battleground Historic Site, Historic Bath Historic Site, Bentonville Battleground Historic Site, Brunswick Town Historic Site, Governor Richard Caswell Memorial /C.S.S. Neuse Historic Site, Duke Homestead Historic Site, House in the Horseshoe Historic Site, James Iredell House Historic Site, President James K. Polk Memorial Historic Site, Stagville Preservation Center Historic Site, State Capitol Historic Site, Town Creek Indian Mound Historic Site, Tryon Palace Historic Site, Governor Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace Historic Site, and Thomas Wolfe Memorial Historic Site."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of May, 1979.