NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 349

HOUSE BILL 619

 

 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF WILSON TO SELL AT PRIVATE SALE CERTAIN LAND THAT IS NOT NEEDED FOR MUNICIPAL PURPOSES.

 

WHEREAS, the City of Wilson is the owner of a tract of land in Wilson County, North Carolina, containing approximately four hundred acres and being more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at the southwest corner of the City of Wilson land fill area, said corner being South 42 degrees 20 minutes West 1,506 feet from a point in the center of a paved road and in the airport property line, being the East entrance to the airport; thence North 11 degrees 45 minutes West 151.4 feet; thence North 63 degrees 50 minutes West 165 feet; thence North 59 degrees 50 minutes West 557 feet; thence North 73 degrees 40 minutes West 404 feet; thence North 89 degrees 05 minutes West 183 feet; thence North 84 degrees 57 minutes West 1,741 feet; thence North 12 degrees 40 minutes West 4,063 feet; thence North 87 degrees 54 minutes West 1,186 feet; thence North 06 degrees 00 minutes East 1,997.7 feet; thence South 85 degrees 04 minutes East 863 feet; thence North 04 degrees 09 minutes East 301.2 feet; thence North 75 degrees 38 minutes East 933.5 feet; thence South 14 degrees 21 minutes East 1,000 feet; thence North 74 degrees 30 minutes East 1,065 feet; thence North 80 degrees 50 minutes East 622 feet; thence North 73 degrees 45 minutes East 2,522 feet; thence South 06 degrees 10 minutes East 5,359 feet; thence South 42 degrees 20 minutes West 2,706 feet to the point of beginning, containing 775.3 acres.

WHEREAS, it has been determined that the foregoing tract of land is not needed for municipal purposes; and

WHEREAS, the land is adaptable for use by industrial plants and the public interest will be promoted by selling the said property as sites for industrial plants and thereby increase the taxable value of the property and such sales can be more advantageously effected through private sales than through public sales: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Wilson, in the exercise of its discretion is hereby authorized to sell privately any or all of that certain tract of land containing approximately four hundred acres, described in the preamble hereof, for such consideration as the members of the board of commissioners consider its fair market value and that the mayor and city clerk, when authorized by the board of commissioners so to do, are empowered to execute valid deed or deeds therefor upon receipt of the purchase price.

Sec. 2. To facilitate the sale of the property the board of commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to execute options to prospective purchases for a period of not exceeding six (6) months.

Sec. 3. No sale of property shall be had nor shall any option to purchase be given until notice thereof shall have been given; to the public, as herein provided, and after a public hearing in relation thereto, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. Such notice shall state (1) the intention of the board of commissioners to consummate a sale or to execute an option to purchase; (2) a brief description of the property or properties; (3) the proposed selling price or prices; (4) the time and place of the public hearing; (5) that any citizen or taxpayer objecting to the proposed sale or the execution of the option to purchase or to the proposed selling price or prices may present his objection at the public hearing. The said notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper published in the City of Wilson, the first publication to be at least ten (10) days before the public hearing.

Sec. 4. Sections 2 and 59 of Chapter 160 of the General Statutes of North Carolina to the extent that they conflict with this Act are hereby repealed and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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 3rd day of May, 1963.