NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 70

SENATE BILL 242

 

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LUMBERTON.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The corporate limits of the City of Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina, are hereby extended by the annexation of the following described tract of land:

"Lying and being between N.C. Highway 41, Old Stage Road (N.C. Rural Road No. 2145) and Rural Road 2501. Beginning at a point in the southeastern right of way line of N.C. Highway 41 and the centerline of Rural Road 2501 extended; thence running in a northwesterly direction along the centerline of N.C. Rural Road No. 2501, 1160 feet, more or less, to a point in the intersection of the centerline of N.C. Rural Road 2501; thence with the center line of Old Stage Road, in a northwesterly direction 400 feet, more or less, to a point; thence North 44 degrees 15 minutes East 262 feet, more or less, to a point; thence North 62 degrees 45 minutes East 452 feet, more or less, to a point, said point being in the corporate limits line of the City of Lumberton; thence continuing with the various courses and distances of the existing corporate limits of the City of Lumberton, North Carolina, in a northeasterly direction to a point, a corner and intersection of the corporate limits of the City of Lumberton; thence in a southwesterly direction along the southeastern right of way line of N.C. Highway 41, the corporate limits line of the City of Lumberton, various courses and distances following the northwest property line of Sunset Heights Subdivision and the northwest property line of that property annexed into the City of Lumberton on June 17, 1965, to an iron stake in the intersection of the southeastern right of way line of N.C. Highway 41 and the eastern right of way line of N.C. Rural Road No. 2205; thence with the southeastern property line of N.C. Highway 41 in a southeasterly direction 3,600 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.

Lying and being adjacent to the existing southern corporate limits of the City of Lumberton and being bounded on the east by the eastern boundary of N.C. Rural Road No. 2205, the western boundary line of Sunset Heights Subdivision, the western right of way line of Freedom Road and the western boundary of the Lumberton Housing Authority Property; on the south by a new line extending from the southwest corner of the Lumberton Housing Authority Property to a point in the southeastern right of way line of N.C. Highway 41; and on the northwest by the southeastern right of way line of N.C. Highway 41, and being more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at an iron stake in the intersection of the southeastern right of way line of N.C. 41 and the eastern right of way line of Rural Road 2205, said stake being a corner of the corporate city limits of the City of Lumberton, and being the northwestern corner of a tract annexed by the City of Lumberton on June 17, 1965; thence with said corporate limits line South 22 degrees 15 minutes East 273.3 feet along the eastern right of way line of N.C. Rural Road No. 2205 to a stake; thence continuing with said corporate limits line North 57 degrees 53 minutes East 160.3 feet to a stake in the western property line of Sunset Heights Subdivision; thence with the line of said Sunset Heights Subdivision and continuing with said corporate limits line South 22 degrees 54 minutes East 480 feet, more or less, to a point, said point being the southwestern corner of Sunset Heights Subdivision; thence South 86 degrees 04 minutes East 548 feet, more or less, to a point in the western right of way line of Freedom Road; thence continuing with the right of way line of Freedom Road, the corporate limits line, South 3 degrees 44 minutes West 435 feet, more or less, to a point in the northern property line of the Lumberton Housing Authority Property; thence along said line and continuing with the said corporate limits South 70 degrees 49 minutes West 27 feet, more or less, to an iron stake; thence South 60 degrees 04 minutes West 410.29 feet, more or less, to an iron stake; thence South 7 degrees 02 minutes East 375.24 feet to an iron stake; thence leaving the Lumberton Housing Authority Property and the present corporate limits line of the City of Lumberton and running thence in a westerly direction 600 feet, more or less, to a point in a dirt road, N.C. Rural Road No. 2206; thence in a southwesterly direction 2,530 feet, more or less, to a point in a ditch; said point in the ditch being where N.C. Rural Road No. 2501, if extended in a southeasterly direction, would intersect said ditch; thence in a northwesterly direction 210 feet, more or less, to a point in the southeastern right of way line of N.C. 41, at the intersection of N.C. Rural Road 2501; thence along the southeastern right of way line of N.C. Highway 41, in a northeasterly direction, 3,450 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning."

Sec. 2. From and after ratification of this act the territory described in Section 1 and its citizens and property shall be subject to all debts, laws, ordinances and regulations in force in the City of Lumberton, 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 annexation. If the effective date of annexation falls between January 1 and June 30, the municipality shall, for the purpose of levying tax for the fiscal year beginning July 1 following annexation, obtain from the County a record of property in the annexed area which was listed for taxes as of January 1. If the annexation effective date falls between June 1 and June 30, and the effective date of the Lumberton privilege license tax ordinance is June 1, then businesses in the annexed area shall be liable for taxes imposed in such ordinance.

Sec. 3. This act is effective on ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of March, 1973.