NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 893

HOUSE BILL 1518

 

AN ACT TO ANNEX CERTAIN AREA INTO THE TOWN OF GARYSBURG.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The corporate limits of the Town of Garysburg are hereby extended to annex and include the following described area:

BEGINNING at a concrete monument on the existing corporate limit line, said point being one-half mile (2640 feet) from the old block house site and 160 feet southeast of the S.C.L.R.R. Said point forms intersection of one-half mile (2640 feet) radius from the old block house and the northern right of way of Highway N. 46, when extended in an easterly direction; thence along said northern right of way of Highway No. 46, N.83° 42'W. 4096.0 feet; thence N. 74° 53'W. 530.2 feet to a point where same intersects with the western line of said radius one half mile (2640 feet) from said block house; thence in a southwesterly direction along said radius 460.0 feet to a concrete monument on said radius; thence N. 52° 00' W. 200 feet to a point in the eastern line of the right of way of S.C.L. Railroad; thence along said S.C.L.R.R. right of way N. 49° 51' E. 3743.2 feet to a point of a curve in said S.C.L.R.R. right of way; thence along a 2° 00' curve 1233.8 feet to a concrete monument in said eastern right of way of S.C.L.R.R.; thence N. 77° 15' E. 1453.9 feet along the lands of J. W. Harris to a concrete monument corner in the lands of B. P. Ellis, thence along the lands of B. P. Ellis S. 17° 05' E. 1553.1 feet to a concrete monument in the northern right of way of Highway No. 195; thence along the northern right of way of said Highway No. 195, S.75° 00' W. 992.0 feet to the point of a curve; thence along said 8° 00' curve 1340.7 feet to a point where the said northern right of way of Highway No. 195 intersects with the former corporate limit line (one-half mile radius) from old block house; thence in a southeasterly direction along said radius 2008.21 feet to the point of beginning.

Sec. 2. From and after the effective date of this act, the territory described above and its citizens and property shall be subject to all debts, laws, ordinances and regulations in force within the Town of Garysburg and shall be entitled to the same privileges and benefits as other parts of the municipality.  The newly annexed territory shall be subject to municipal taxes levied for the fiscal year following the date of annexation.  If the effective date of annexation falls between January 1 and June 30, the municipality shall, for purposes of levying taxes for the fiscal year beginning July 1 following the date of annexation, obtain from the county a record of property in the area being annexed which was listed for taxation as of said January 1.  If the effective date of annexation falls between June 1 and June 30, and the effective date of the privilege license tax ordinance of the annexing municipality is June 1, then businesses in the area to be annexed shall be liable for taxes imposed in such ordinance from and after the effective date of annexation.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of February, 1974.