GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1995 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 187

HOUSE BILL 643

 

AN ACT TO REDEFINE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HEARTSEASE FIRE TAX DISTRICT AND THE HARRISON FIRE TAX DISTRICT IN EDGECOMBE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The boundaries of the Heartsease Fire Tax District in Edgecombe County are as follows:

HEARTSEASE FIRE TAX DISTRICT

BEGINNING at point (1) on N. C. Highway 97, 1.0 miles east of its intersection with S.R. 1404 (New Hope Church Road) and said beginning point also being in the common boundary of Heartsease Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District and the Leggett Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District and thence running southwesterly with the line of the existing Leggett Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District and following the Tar River to point (2) where the Tar River intersects with the Town of Tarboro Corporate Limits; thence running Southwesterly with the Town of Tarboro Corporate Limits to point (3) at the intersection of U.S. Highway 64 Alternate and N.C. Highway 33; thence running along and with the Town of Tarboro Corporate Limits westerly to point (4) on U.S. Highway 64 Alternate 1.1 miles west of its intersection with S.R. 1207 (McNair Road); thence running southerly along and with the Town of Tarboro Corporate Limits and line of the Princeville Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District to point (5) at the intersection of S.R. 1207 (McNair Road) and S.R. 1208 (Howard Avenue Extension); thence running in a westerly direction following the centerline of S.R. 1208 (Howard Avenue Extension) and along the line of the Princeville Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District to point (6) on S.R. 1208 (Howard Avenue Extension), 0.3 miles southwest of its intersection with S.R. 1225 (Kingsboro Road); thence continuing with the line of the Princeville Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District northwesterly to point (7) on S.R. 1223 (Antioch Road), a point which is 1.3 miles southwest of its intersection with S.R. 1225 (Kingsboro Road) and also being a point in the line of the West Edgecombe Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District; thence running northwesterly with the line of the West Edgecombe Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District to point (8), on S.R. 1226 (Melton Road), 0.7 miles south of its intersection with U. S. Highway 64 Alternate; thence continuing with the line of the West Edgecombe Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District in a southwesterly direction to point (9) on U. S. Highway 64 Alternate, 0.4 miles west of its intersection with S.R. 1226 (Melton Road); thence running in a northerly direction continuing with the line of the West Edgecombe Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District to and with Tar River to point (10) on N. C. Highway 97, 0.2 miles northwest with its intersection with Leggett Road and also being in the line of the Battleboro Volunteer Fire Department Harrison Fire Tax District; thence running northeasterly along and with the line of the Battleboro Volunteer Fire Department Harrison Fire Tax District to point 11 on S.R. 1407 (Battleboro-Leggett Road), 1.2 miles northwest of its intersection with S.R. 1408 (New Hope Church Road); thence continuing with the Battleboro Volunteer Fire Department Harrison Fire Tax District northerly and southerly to the line of the Leggett Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District and along the Leggett Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District line to point (12) of S.R. 1407 (Battleboro-Leggett Road), 0.4 miles southeast of its intersection with S.R. 1208 (New Hope Church Road) and thence continuing along and with the Leggett Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District southeasterly to point (1) the point of beginning, all as the same appears on a map on file in the Office of the Emergency Services Coordinator of Edgecombe County in the Edgecombe County Administrative Offices at 201 St. Andrews Street in Tarboro, North Carolina and which has been signed and dated by the Edgecombe County Emergency Services Coordinator, the Chief of the Heartsease Volunteer Fire Department and the President of the Edgecombe County Association of Volunteer Fire Departments.

Sec. 2.  The boundaries of the Harrison Fire Tax District in Edgecombe County are as follows:

HARRISON FIRE TAX DISTRICT

EDGECOMBE COUNTY

BEGINNING at point (1) at the common intersection of the Edgecombe County line, the centerline of the CSX Railroad and the Davenport Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District which intersection is 1.5 miles along the CSX Railroad north from the corporate limits of Battleboro; thence running in a southeasterly direction along and with the Davenport Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District line to point (2), on S.R. 1404 (Seven Bridges Road) 0.1 mile northeast of its intersection with S.R. 1411 (Marriott Road); thence continuing with the line of the Davenport Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District line in a southeasterly direction 2.4 miles to point (3) at its intersection with the Leggett Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District line; thence running in a southerly direction along and with the Leggett Volunteer Fire Department Tax District line to its intersection with the Heartsease Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District line; and thence running along and with the Heartsease Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District line in a northeasterly direction and southerly direction to point (4), on S.R. 1407 (Battleboro-Leggett Road), 0.6 miles west of its intersection with S.R. 1415 (Morningstar Church Road); thence continuing with the line of Heartsease Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District in a southeasterly direction to point (5), on N.C. Highway 97, 0.2 miles south of its intersection with S.R. 1406 (Coolspring Road), thence continuing with the line of the Heartsease Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District line in a southeasterly direction to Tar River, a corner with the Heartsease Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District line and the West Edgecombe Volunteer Fire Department Fire Tax District line and then continuing with the Tar River and the West Edgecombe Volunteer Fire Tax District line in and to its intersection with the corporate limits of the City of Rocky Mount; and thence running northeasterly and following the corporate limits of the City of Rocky Mount, the Edgecombe County and Nash County lines and CSX Railroad to point (1), the beginning point, all as shown on a map on file in the Office of the Emergency Services Coordinator of Edgecombe County in the Edgecombe County Administrative Offices at 201 St. Andrews Street in Tarboro, North Carolina and which has been signed and dated by the Edgecombe County Emergency Services Coordinator, the Chief of the Battleboro Volunteer Fire Department and the President of the Edgecombe County Association of Volunteer Fire Departments.

Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective June 30, 1995.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of June, 1995.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives