GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 601

HOUSE BILL 198

 

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF TAYLORTOWN, AND PROVIDE FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS DISSOLUTION OF THE TAYLORTOWN SANITARY DISTRICT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  In accordance with G.S. 130A-81(1a), the Town of Taylortown is incorporated and the Taylortown Sanitary District is simultaneously dissolved.  Such incorporation and dissolution are not subject to referendum.

Sec. 2.  A Charter for the Town of Taylortown is enacted to read:

"CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF TAYLORTOWN.

"Chapter I.

"Incorporation and Corporate Powers.

"Section 1.1.  Incorporation and corporate powers.  The inhabitants of the Town of Taylortown are a body corporate and politic under the name 'Town of Taylortown'.  Under that name they have all the powers, duties, rights, privileges, and immunities conferred and imposed upon cities by the general law of North Carolina.

"Chapter II.

"Corporate Boundaries.

"Sec. 2.1.  Town Boundaries.  Until modified in accordance with law, the boundaries of the Town of Taylortown are as follows:

All the area included within the boundaries of all that tract or parcel of land in Mineral Springs Township, Moore County, North Carolina, particularly described as follows:

Tract 1

BEGINNING at a point in the center of a small branch due North of the end of Crocker Avenue, thence due South 530 feet, more or less, to the southern line of Crocker Avenue; thence following said southern line of Crocker Avenue North 83°  30' East 600 feet thence South 6° 30' East 340 feet, more or less, to the southern side of Pinehurst Street; thence following said southern side of Pinehurst Street and continuing to a corner in the Pinehurst, Inc. line North 76° East 1180 feet, more or less; thence across Pinehurst property North 10° 30' East 720 feet, more or less, to another corner in the Pinehurst line; thence following the Pinehurst, Inc. line North 19° East 300 feet, more or less, to a point in the Academy Heights Subdivision line; thence following the Academy Heights Subdivision line South 78° 25' East 160 feet and North 11° 35 minutes East 1200 feet to a point; thence across the undeveloped portion of the Academy Heights Subdivision North 16 degrees 45 minutes West 600 feet more or less, to the southeastern corner of the Bumacur Heights Subdivision; thence following the lines of said subdivision North 18° 30' West 950 feet; North 71° 30' East 220 feet and North 18° 30' West 1050 feet; thence North 48° West 800 feet, more or less, to Frye's southwest corner; thence following Frye's line North 37° 45' West 885 feet to his northwestern corner; thence North 85° 30' West 2800 feet, more or less, to a point in the center of a road (#1216) 900 feet along its centerline from the center of the Murdocksville-West End Road; thence South 82° West 2150 feet; thence South 17° East 1950 feet, more or less to a point in the center of the Murdocksville-West End Road, 850 feet west of the intersection of the road to Robbins; thence South 33° 30' East 2350 feet, more or less, to the center of a branch; thence following said branch downstream to Joe's Fork and thence upstream to a small branch North of Crocker Street and up said branch to the point of BEGINNING.

Tract 2

BEGINNING at a point in the existing Sanitary District, said point in the eastern line of Carl N. Bradshaw Property as recorded in Deed Book 126, Page 597 and 598, Moore County Registry; thence S 30° 30' E. approximately 900 feet to a branch; thence downstream with said branch approximately 1700 feet to another branch; thence upstream with said branch approximately 800 feet to a point; thence west approximately 2100 feet to a point on Carl N. Bradshaw's line; thence North approximately 1120 feet to the beginning of the proposed additional Area I as shown on Map entitled Proposed Taylortown Corporate Limits by Central Carolina Surveyors, P.A., dated 6/6/86 and revised 10/31/86.

Tract 3

BEGINNING at the southeast corner of the existing Sanitary District; thence 200 feet to the southeast corner of existing well #3; thence S 10° E approximately 1300 feet to a point in the centerline of N.C. Hwy. 211; thence as said centerline in a northwesterly direction approximately 3580 feet to the centerline of a branch; thence with said branch in a northwesterly direction approximately 500 feet to another branch; thence with said branch easterly approximately 600 feet to a point; thence south approximately 530 feet to a point; thence N 83° 30' E approximately 600 feet to a point at the north east corner of existing well #2; thence S 6° 30' E approximately 340 feet to a point; thence N 76° E approximately 1180 feet to the beginning being the proposed Additional Area II as shown on Map entitled Proposed Taylortown Corporate Limits by Central Carolina Surveyors, P.A., dated 6/6/86 and revised 10/31/86.

"Sec. 2.2.  If any of the territory described in Section 2.1 of this Charter is located within the corporate limits of another municipality, it is removed from that municipality, effective July 1, 1988, and placed in the corporate limits of the Town of Taylortown on that date, notwithstanding Section 2.1 of this Charter.

"Chapter III.

"Governing Body.

"Sec. 3.1.  Structure of governing body; number of members.  The governing body of the Town of Taylortown is the Town Council, which has five members.

"Sec. 3.2.  Manner of electing board.  The qualified voters of the entire Town nominate and elect the members of the Council.

"Sec. 3.3.  Term of office of Council members.  Members of the Town Council are elected to two-year terms.

"Sec. 3.4.  Selection of Mayor; term of office.  At the organizational meeting of the Town Council following each election, the Town Council shall elect one of its members to serve as Mayor.  The Mayor shall serve at the pleasure of the Town Council.

"Sec. 3.5.  Filling of vacancies.  Vacancies occurring for any reason in the Town Council shall be filled by the remaining members of the Council for the remainder of the unexpired term.

"Chapter IV.

"Elections.

"Sec. 4.1.  Conduct of Town elections.  The Town Council shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis and the results determined by the plurality method as provided by G.S. 163-292.

"Chapter V.

"Administration.

"Sec. 5.1.  Mayor-Council plan.  The Town of Taylortown operates under the Mayor-Council plan as provided by Part 3 of Article 7 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.

"Chapter VI.

"Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and Annexation.

"Sec. 6.1.  Extraterritorial jurisdiction.  The Town may not exercise any extraterritorial jurisdiction or extraterritorial powers under Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes."

Sec. 3.  The incorporation of the Town of Taylortown and the simultaneous dissolution of the Taylortown Sanitary District shall become effective at 12:00 noon on July 15, 1987. The Taylortown Sanitary District shall take all actions necessary to effect this transfer of the assets and liabilities of the Sanitary District to the Town of Taylortown by July 14, 1987.

Sec. 4.  Until members of the Town Council are elected in accordance with the Town Charter and the law of North Carolina, the five members of the current Board of the Taylortown Sanitary District shall serve as members of the Town Council.  They shall elect a Mayor from among their members to serve until the organizational meeting after the 1987 municipal election.  Notwithstanding G.S. 163-294.2, for the 1987 election, notices of candidacy shall be filed not earlier than noon on July 15, 1987, and not later than noon on August 5, 1987.

Sec. 5.  From and after July 14, 1987, the citizens and property in the Town of Taylortown shall be subject to municipal taxes levied for the year beginning July 15, 1987, and for that purpose the town shall obtain from Moore County a record of property in the area herein incorporated which was listed for taxes as of January 1, 1987, and the businesses in the town shall be liable for privilege license tax from the effective date of the privilege license tax ordinance.  The Town may adopt a budget ordinance for fiscal year 1987-88 without following the timetable in the Local Government Budget and Fiscal Control Act.

Sec. 6.  The transitional provisions of G.S. 130A-81(5) a. through g. shall apply to the Town of Taylortown and the Taylortown Sanitary District.

Sec. 7.  Effective July 1, 1988, the Town of Taylortown is removed from the Pinehurst Fire Protection District and from the Eastwood Fire Protection District.

Sec. 8.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of July, 1987.