NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 793
HOUSE BILL 315

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE RANDOLPH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION TO RELEASE AND THE CHATHAM BOARD OF EDUCATION TO ACCEPT CERTAIN PUPILS IN THE BENNETT ATTENDANCE ZONE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 115-163, the Randolph County Board of Education is directed to release from attendance in the Randolph County Schools those students who are presently attending the Chatham County Schools, who reside within the area described below, and who request such release, and the Chatham County Board of Education is directed to accept such pupils for attendance in the Chatham County Schools:
BEGINNING at a point where Deep River intersects the Moore and Randolph County lines; running thence up the various courses of said river to a point 500 feet South of where River Road (State Road No. 2874) dead-ends from the west with Deep River; thence West along a line 500 feet south of and parallel with Secondary Road #2874 to a point where said line intersects a line running 500 feet west of and parallel with Secondary Road No. 2873; thence North along said line running 500 feet west of and parallel with Secondary Road #2873 to a point where said line intersects a line running 500 feet north of and parallel with Secondary Road No. 1002; thence East along said line running 500 feet north of and parallel with Secondary Road #1002 to a point where said line intersects Deep River; thence North along the various courses of Deep River to a point where Little Brush Creek empties into Deep River; thence North along the various courses of Little Brush Creek to a point where Little Brush Creek intersects the Chatham-Randolph County line; thence South along the Chatham-Randolph County line to a point where said line intersects the Moore County line; thence along the Moore-Randolph County line to the place and point of BEGINNING.
The above description is that area in Randolph County which by policy and custom has been served by the Chatham County school system for more than 40 years.
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1979.