GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION LAW 2001-472
AN ACT MAKING A NONCONTIGUOUS ANNEXATION TO THE TOWN OF MIDLAND IN CABARRUS COUNTY AND VALIDATING ACTIONS OF THE TOWN OF LINDEN IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a) The following described property is added to the corporate limits of the Town of Midland:
All those two certain tracts of land containing two and sixty-four hundredths (2.64) acres, known as Lot Nos. 2 and 3 of Pine Bluff Estates in number 10 township, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, on the corner of Pine Bluff Road and Bluffton Lane as shown on a plat made by Harold W. Boles dated August 27, 1989 showing metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning at an iron pin on the northeast corner of Pine Bluff Road and Bluffton Lane and runs thence with Pine Bluff Road N. 00-12-01 W., 49.32 feet to an iron pin on the eastern edge of Pine Bluff Road; thence with Pine Bluff Road N. 02-12-14 E., 106.46 feet to an iron pin on the eastern edge of Pine Bluff Road, corner of Vernon Allen; thence with his line N. 78-59-57 E. 333.49 feet to an iron pin in the line of Lot No. 4; thence with the line of Lot No. 4, S. 02-55-22 W., 478.50 feet to an iron pin in the line of Lot No. 19, a corner of Lot Nos. 1 and 2; thence with the line dividing Lot Nos. 1 and 2 N. 80-56-38 W., 309.02 feet to an iron pin on the east side of Pine Bluff Road; thence with Pine Bluff Road N. 00-33-09 W., 210 feet to the point of beginning.
SECTION 1.(b) Real property and personal property in the territory annexed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section is subject to municipal taxes as provided in G.S. 160A-58.10. The corporate limits of the area annexed by subsection (a) of this section:
(1) Shall be considered satellite corporate limits within the meaning of Part 4 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.
(2) Are not external boundaries for the purposes of Part 2 or 3 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes until they are contiguous to the municipality.
SECTION 2.(a) All actions taken by the Town of Linden between January 1, 1989, and the effective date of this section are ratified, validated, and confirmed.
SECTION 2.(b) Any and all official acts, actions, expenditures, and levies of taxes or assessments by the Town of Linden since January 1, 1989, are ratified, validated, and confirmed.
SECTION 2.(c) The elections for municipal officers of the Town of Linden since January 1, 1989, are validated.
SECTION 2.(d) The first sentence of Section 3 of the Charter of the Town of Linden, being Chapter 398 of the Private Laws of 1913, as rewritten by Chapter 332 of the 1953 Session Laws, is rewritten to read:
"The officers of said corporation shall consist of a mayor and five commissioners."
SECTION 2.(e) This section does not affect pending litigation.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of November, 2001.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives