NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 117

HOUSE BILL 159

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF WILSON TO SELL AT PRIVATE SALE CERTAIN LANDS THAT ARE NOT NEEDED FOR MUNICIPAL PURPOSES.

WHEREAS, the City of Wilson is the owner of two tracts of land in Wilson County, North Carolina, containing a total of approximately 400 acres and being more particularly described as follows:

East Tract: Beginning at a point South 06 degrees 10 minutes East 1620 feet from the northernmost corner of the Wilson Municipal Airport property; thence South 33 degrees 30 minutes West 1440 feet to a corner; thence South 55 degrees 30 minutes East 525 feet to a corner; thence South 33 degrees 30 minutes West 2500 feet to a corner located in the existing paved access road; thence North 55 degrees 30 minutes West 525 feet to a corner; thence South 30 degrees 00 minutes West 660 feet to a point; thence South 28 degrees 31 minutes West 438.7 feet to a point; thence South 1 degree 45 minutes East 239.4 feet to a point; thence South 7 degrees 41 minutes East 637.4 feet to a corner; thence South 84 degrees 57 minutes East 37.3 feet to a point; thence South 89 degrees 05 minutes East 183 feet to a point; thence South 73 degrees 40 minutes East 404 feet to a point; thence South 59 degrees 50 minutes East 527 feet to a point; thence South 63 degrees 50 minutes East 165 feet to a point; thence South 11 degrees 45 minutes East 151.4 feet to a corner; thence North 42 degrees 20 minutes East 2706 feet to a corner; thence North 06 degrees 10 minutes West 3739 feet to the point of beginning and being the East Industrial Tract.

West Tract: Beginning at a point South 73 degrees 45 minutes West 1500 feet from the northernmost corner of the Wilson Municipal Airport property; thence South 73 degrees 45 minutes West 1022 feet to a point; thence South 80 degrees 50 minutes West 622 feet to a point; thence South 74 degrees 30 minutes West 1065 feet to a corner; thence North 14 degrees 21 minutes West 1000 feet to a corner; thence South 75 degrees 39 minutes West 933.5 feet to a corner; thence South 04 degrees 09 minutes West 301.2 feet to a corner; thence North 85 degrees 04 minutes West 863 feet to a corner; thence South 06 degrees 00 minutes West 1997.7 feet to a corner; thence South 87 degrees 54 minutes East 1186 feet to a corner; thence South 12 degrees 40 minutes East 2503 feet to a corner; thence North 33 degrees 30 minutes East 5540 feet to the point of beginning and being the West Industrial Tract.

WHEREAS, it has been determined that the foregoing tracts of land are not needed for municipal purposes; and

WHEREAS, the land is adaptable for use by industrial plants and the public interest will be promoted by selling the said property as sites for industrial plants and thereby increase the taxable value of the property and such sales can be more advantageously effected through private sales than through public sales: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Wilson, in the exercise of its discretion is hereby authorized to sell privately any or all of that certain tract of land containing approximately four hundred acres, described in the preamble hereof, for such consideration as the members of the Board of Commissioners consider its fair market value and that the mayor and city clerk, when authorized by the Board of Commissioners so to do, are empowered to execute valid deed or deeds therefor upon receipt of the purchase price.

Sec. 2. To facilitate the sale of the property the Board of Commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to execute options to prospective purchasers for a period of not exceeding six months.

Sec. 3. No sale of property shall be had nor shall any option to purchase be given until notice thereof shall have been given to the public, as herein provided, and after a public hearing in relation thereto, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. Such notice shall state (1) the intention of the Board of Commissioners to consummate a sale or to execute an option to purchase; (2) a brief description of the property or properties; (3) the proposed selling price or prices; (4) the time and place of the public hearing; (5) that any citizen or taxpayer objecting to the proposed sale or the execution of the option to purchase or to the proposed selling price or prices may present his objection at the public hearing. The said notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper published in the City of Wilson, the first publication to be at least ten days before the public hearing.

Sec. 4. Sections 2 and 59 of Chapter 160 of the General Statutes of North Carolina and Chapter 349 of the Session Laws of 1963, to the extent that they conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed, and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. All sales of land made by the City of Wilson pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 349 of the Session Laws of 1963 are hereby ratified.

Sec. 6. 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 26th day of March, 1965.