GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION
CHAPTER 942
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The County of Pitt owns real property hereinafter described on which the Children's Services of Eastern Carolina, Inc., are desirous of erecting a home for parents of sick children who are patients at the Pitt County Memorial Hospital, so that said parents may be near their children while they are being treated or recuperating in the hospital. Said real property being described as follows:
Situate and lying in Pitt County, Greenville Township, and being a portion of former Moye property now owned by the County of Pitt.
BEGINNING at a point in the division line between the Greenville Nursing and Convalescent Home and the Pitt County property, said beginning point also being located in the northern right-of-way line of a 60 foot ingress and egress right-of-way, said beginning point is also the southeast corner of the Ira Hardy property, and is further described as being located South 61 degrees 30 minutes East, 157.35 feet from an iron marker, Ira Hardy's southwest corner, said point being located 7.5 feet east of the existing curb line of Moye Boulevard; and, running thence from said beginning point, Ira Hardy's southeast corner, an iron, North 28 degrees 30 minutes East with the said Ira Hardy property 295.16 feet to a point in the Ira Hardy line if said line were continued; thence, South 61 degrees 30 minutes East, across the Pitt County property 295.16 feet to a corner; thence, South 28 degrees 30 minutes West across Pitt County property 295.16 feet to a point in the northern right-of-way line of said 60 foot ingress and egress right-of-way; thence, North 61 degrees 30 minutes West, along the northern right-of-way line of said ingress and egress strip, 295.16 feet to the beginning point. Ira Hardy's southeast corner.
Sec. 2. The County of Pitt is authorized to enter into a lease with the Children's Services of Eastern Carolina, Inc., concerning the property described in Section 1 of this act without compliance with Article 12 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes of North Carolina, and which lease may contain such terms and such provisions as shall be approved by the County Board of Commissioners, and which may include a term in excess of 10 years, provided the Board of County Commissioners of Pitt County determine that: (i) The Children's Services of Eastern Carolina, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, unconditionally agrees to erect on said land a building which will establish a short- term residence facility for children who are being treated for serious disabilities at Pitt County Memorial Hospital and the parents of said youthful patients receiving treatment at the Pitt County Memorial Hospital, title to which residence shall vest in Pitt County; (ii) That the Children's Services of Eastern Carolina, Inc., in the lease agrees to maintain and operate said home for and during the term of said lease, and (iii) That such lease is in the best interest of the County of Pitt. The property shall be leased pursuant to a resolution of the Board of County Commissioners authorizing the execution of the lease adopted at a regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners upon 10 days' public notice. Notice shall be given by publication describing the property being leased or rented, stating the annual rental or lease payments, and announcing the Commissioners' intent to authorize the lease or rental at its next regular meeting.
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1984.