NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 298
HOUSE BILL 382

AN ACT TO EXCLUDE A CERTAIN DESCRIBED AREA FROM THE MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES OF THE TOWN OF KILL DEVIL HILLS, DARE COUNTY.

WHEREAS, the Town of Kill Devil Hills, Dare County, has received a petition from all the property owners in a certain area lying within the town limits requesting that the area be removed from the corporate limits; and
WHEREAS, the governing body of the Town of Kill Devil Hills, finds that there is no protest to the removal; and
WHEREAS, said land is undeveloped, inaccessible, and municipal services are of no benefit to the area: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The corporate limits of the Town of Kill Devil Hills, Dare County, are hereby reduced by the removal of that certain area located within its corporate limits in Dare County, more particularly described as follows:
All that certain parcel of land lying and being in Atlantic Township, Dare County, North Carolina, adjoining the U. S. Government property known as Wright Memorial, lands of Lillian Whittle, Diane Baum Voliva, Colington Creek and lands of Harold C. Foreman and described as follows:
Beginning at a concrete monument situated on the western property line of the U. S. Government property known as Wright Memorial, which said beginning point is located a distance of 4,383.7 feet along an extension of the North right of way line of Colington Road, also known as Ocean Bay Boulevard, from the point of intersection of said North margin of Colington Road with U. S. Highway 158 Bypass, which said concrete monument at the point of beginning is also a fence marker in the southwest corner of the U. S. Government property known as Wright Memorial, and running thence South 17 degrees 15 minutes East a distance of 875 feet to a concrete post in the center line of a ditch; and running thence South 69 degrees 55 minutes West along the center of a ditch a distance of 1,802 feet to a concrete marker; and running thence South 20 degrees 35 minutes West a distance of 750 feet along the center line of a ditch to Colington Creek and the sound; and thence following the various meanderings of Colington Creek and Kitty Hawk Bay in a general northerly direction to a concrete monument on the shore of Kitty Hawk Bay, which said corner is located South 70 degrees 38 minutes West a distance of 530 feet from a concrete monument located in the northwest corner of the U. S. Government property known as Wright Memorial; and running thence North 70 degrees 38 minutes East a distance of 530 feet to the concrete monument in the northwest corner of the U. S. Government property known as Wright Memorial; and running thence along the West line of the U. S. Government property known as Wright Memorial and along the U. S. Government fence line South 10 degrees 47 minutes East and crossing the Colington Road a distance of 2,318.4 feet to a concrete post; and thence South 17 degrees 55 minutes East continuing along the West line of the U. S. Government property known as Wright Memorial and the fence on said line a distance of 1,250.7 feet to a concrete monument in the southwest corner of the U. S. Government property known as Wright Memorial, the point or place of beginning.
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 28th day of April, 1961.