NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 392

SENATE BILL 644

 

AN ACT TO REDEFINE THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF BETHEL IN PITT COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Chapter 997, Session Laws of 1969 is hereby amended by deleting from Section 1 the metes and bounds description contained therein, and by inserting in lieu thereof a new description of the corporate limits of the Town of Bethel to read as follows:

"Beginning at a stake in the western right-of-way line of N.C. Highway No. 11, said stake being located 150 feet northwardly from the intersection of the northern right-of-way line of Harper Drive with the western right-of-way line of N.C. Highway No. 11; thence with the western line of N.C. Highway No. 11 S. 02° 00' W., 62.0 feet; thence crossing N.C. Highway No. 11 and with the northern right-of-way line of S.R. 1501 N. 72° 30' E., 237.0 feet; thence leaving said right-of-way of S.R. 1501 S. 19° 43' E., 3,430 feet to a point in the center line of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad track; thence S. 06° 37' W., 2,500 feet; thence S. 83° 23' E., 273 feet; thence S. 06° 37' W., 671 feet to a point in the southern right-of-way line of the Flat Swamp Road; thence with the southern right-of-way line of the Flat Swamp Road N. 62° 43' W., 355 feet; thence N. 69° W., 300 feet; thence N. 75° 30' W., 376 feet; thence leaving the southern right-of-way of Flat Swamp Road S. 08° 30' W., 558.6 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 06° 30' W., 176.5 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 08° 30' W., 461.27 feet to the center of the VEPCO primary power transmission line; thence with the center of the VEPCO power line S. 78° 27' W., 2,497.15 feet to a hedgerow dividing the Blount and Carson properties; thence with the Blount-Carson line N. 03° 35' E., 880.7 feet to the center of N.C. S.R. No. 1429; thence with said road N. 74° 52' W., 165 feet; thence leaving said road N. 29° 12' W., 1,718.45 feet; thence N. 40° 12' W., 1,190 feet; thence N. 04° 30' W., 200.0 feet to a point in the southern right-of-way line of West Washington Street; thence with the southern right-of-way line of West Washington Street S. 85° 30' W., 1,370 feet; thence leaving said right-of-way of West Washington Street N. 50° 33' E., 817 feet to a point in the centerline of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad track; thence with the centerline of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad track N. 84° 52' E., 1,370 feet; thence leaving said center line and with the eastern side of a ditch N. 07° 30' W., 495 feet to an iron stake; thence N. 72° E., 715 feet; thence parallel and 150 feet westerly from the western right-of-way line of Robinson Street N. 06° 30' E., 2,540 feet more or less to the southern right-of-way line of Hammond Avenue; thence with the southern line of Hammond Avenue S. 84° 00' E., 720 feet more or less to the western right-of-way line of West Lane; thence with the western right-of-way line of West Lane N. 02° 00' E., 200 feet; thence S. 84° 00' E., 550 feet; thence N. 02° 00' E., 400 feet; thence S. 87° 45' E., 1,108 feet to the point of beginning."

Sec. 2. Any territory, its citizens and property embraced within the above description which was not within the corporate limits shall from and after the ratification of this act be subject to the provisions of G.S. 160A-31(e).

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1975.