NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 710

HOUSE BILL 1036

AN ACT TO REMOVE CERTAIN LANDS IN WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD STATE PARK FROM THE STATE NATURE AND HISTORIC PRESERVE.

Whereas, all the lands now comprising William B. Umstead State Park are among those lands included in the State Nature and Historic Preserve by resolution of the 1973 Session of the North Carolina General Assembly; and

Whereas, Article XIV, Section 5 of the North Carolina Constitution provides that no lands may be removed from the State Nature and Historic Preserve without a law enacted by a vote of three-fifths of the members of each house of the North Carolina General Assembly; and

Whereas, the Department of Natural and Economic Resources finds that two parcels of land at William B. Umstead State Park, one containing 46.78 acres more or less and situated on the east side of Ebenezer Church Road approximately 1/2 mile north of the point where Ebenezer Church Road crosses Crabtree Creek and the other containing 88.4 acres more or less and lying approximately 1/2 mile south of the entrance to the Reedy Creek section of Umstead Park and between 1-40 and Wake County Road 1650 (Reedy Creek Park Road), are no longer needed for satisfactory administration of the Park; and

Whereas, these said two tracts of land have been examined by competent members of the Division of Parks and Recreation of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources and have been found to contain no unique biological or geological resources worthy of special preservation; and

Whereas, with the approval of the Council of State, these said two tracts of land can be sold or traded to obtain other lands lying within or contiguous to the present boundary of the Park; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  That the two tracts of land above described are hereby removed from the State Nature and Historic Preserve.

Sec. 2.  That it is the specific intent of the General Assembly that said removal shall be only for purposes of permitting the State of North Carolina to sell or exchange the land to obtain other lands for the protection and administration of William B. Umstead State Park.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1975.