NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 292

HOUSE BILL 479

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITY OF LEXINGTON TO RELEASE ANY INTEREST IT AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY MAY HAVE IN CERTAIN LANDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERMITTING THE DIXIE FURNITURE COMPANY, INCORPORATED, TO CROSS A PART OF EAST THIRD AVENUE AND A PART OF RAILROAD STREET FOR PRIVATE PURPOSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The governing body of the City of Lexington is hereby authorized and empowered by resolution, ordinance, or other proceedings deemed advisable and/or by the execution of such papers as may be necessary to release the interest of the City of Lexington and the public generally in and to that portion of East Third Avenue adjoining the intersection of East Third Avenue and Railroad Street and in and to that portion of Railroad Street lying and being between East Third Avenue and West Third Avenue in the City of Lexington, and lying and being between the present cabinet room of the Dixie Furniture Company, Incorporated, located on the East side of Railroad Street and the corner of the finishing room of Dixie Furniture Company, Incorporated, on the West side of Railroad Street, for the purpose of permitting the said Dixie Furniture Company, Incorporated, to extend its said building on the East side of said Railroad Street by way of a tramway or catwalk over and across a small portion of East Third Avenue and across Railroad Street to the corner of the finishing room of the Dixie Furniture Company, Incorporated, located on the West side of Railroad Street, with a clearance for said tramway or catwalk of not less than seventeen feet at any point over and above East Third Avenue and Railroad Street, said tramway or catwalk to be constructed and used and said portion of East Third Avenue and Railroad Street to be crossed for the benefit of the Dixie Furniture Company, Incorporated, and its business, and generally for its private purposes.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 25th day of April, 1963.