NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION
CHAPTER 680
HOUSE BILL 1013
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF PAMLICO COUNTY TO TRANSFER AN ABANDONED SCHOOL BUILDING IN HOLT'S CHAPEL COMMUNITY, PAMLICO COUNTY, TO THE TRUSTEES OF HOLT'S CHAPEL AME ZION AND MATTOCKSVILLE ST. STEPHENS BAPTIST CHURCHES FOR COMMUNITY PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, the Board of Education of Pamlico County is the owner of a school building in the Holt's Chapel Community which has been abandoned and is no longer of value for school purposes; and
WHEREAS, it appears in the best interest of the Holt's Chapel Community and Pamlico County generally that the building and lot be used by the community as a community building; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees and the church memberships of the Holt's Chapel AME Zion and Mattocksville St. Stephens Baptist Churches have agreed to accept title on behalf of the community, for the use of such property as a community building: Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The Board of Education of Pamlico County is hereby authorized and empowered to convey a certain lot of land in the Holt's Chapel Community of No. 5 Township, Pamlico County, containing one acre, more or less, being bounded on the North by the Luke Hodges land, on the East by the China Grove Road (SR 1302) and on the South and West by the lands of Ross Coppage, to the Boards of Trustees of the Holt's Chapel AME Zion and the Mattocksville St. Stephens Baptist Churches, by deed which shall provide that title shall remain in the said church trustees so long as the property is used and maintained as a community building and no longer, and that if the same should cease to be so used and maintained, title will revert to the Board of Education of Pamlico County.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June, 1963.