NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 832

SENATE BILL 439

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITY OF DURHAM TO RELEASE ANY INTEREST IT AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY MAY HAVE IN CERTAIN LANDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERMITTING HOMELAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, INCORPORATED, TO CROSS OVERHEAD A PART OF CORCORAN STREET FOR PRIVATE PURPOSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That the Governing Body of the City of Durham is hereby authorized and empowered to permit by resolution, ordinance or other proceedings deemed advisable, or such papers as may be necessary, the release of the interest of the City of Durham and the public generally in and to that portion of Corcoran Street situated, lying and being between the Jack Tar Durham (formerly Washington Duke) Hotel of Homeland Investment Company, Incorporated, on the West side of Corcoran Street and the property of Homeland Investment Company, Incorporated, located on the East side of Corcoran Street, for the purpose of permitting said Homeland Investment Company, Incorporated, to connect said Jack Tar Durham (formerly Washington Duke) Hotel building on the West side of Corcoran Street with the building of Homeland Investment Company, Incorporated, located on the East side of Corcoran Street by the construction of an overhead arcade, walkway bridge, or overpass from the said hotel building on the West side of Corcoran Street over and across Corcoran Street to the aforesaid building or property of Homeland Investment Company, Incorporated, situate on the East side of Corcoran Street, with a clearance above Corcoran Street of not less than twenty (20) feet at any point, upon such terms and conditions as said governing body may prescribe; said overhead arcade, walkway bridge, or overpass to be constructed and used and said Corcoran Street to be crossed overhead in such manner for the benefit of said Homeland Investment Company, Incorporated, and its lessees and in furtherance of its business, and generally for its private purposes.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 15th day of June, 1961.