NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 274

HOUSE BILL 753

 

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE AN AREA BETWEEN THE CENTERLINE OF CATAWBA RIVER AND SOUTH RIGHT-OF-WAY LIMIT BOUNDARY LINE OF KIRKSEY DRIVE IN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF MORGANTON.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. From and after the effective date of this act the following described territory contiguous to the present limits of said city is annexed to the City of Morganton, to wit:

BEGINNING at a point in centerline of Catawba River, corner of the present corporate limits of the City of Morganton, this beginning point being 573 feet downstream from N.C. Highway 181, and runs thence downstream and in a Northerly and Easterly direction with the meanders of the centerline of Catawba River to a point in the present corporate limits of Morganton, which point is 2,195 feet upstream from the confluence of Catawba River and Hunting Creek; thence with the present corporate limits line of Morganton in a Southerly direction to a point in the South right-of-way limit boundary line of Kirksey Drive; thence continuing with the present corporate limits line and with the said South right-of-way limit boundary line in a Westerly and Southwesterly direction to a point, corner of the present corporate limits of Morganton at which Kirksey Drive is in close proximity to Catawba River; thence with the present corporate limits line in a Westerly direction to the point of beginning.

Sec. 2. On the date of annexation the City of Morganton shall provide police protection, fire protection, garbage collection and street maintenance services in above described annexed territory on substantially the same basis and in the same manner as such services are provided with the rest of the municipality.

Sec. 3. Property owners in the above territory may secure water and sewer service according to the policies in effect in Morganton for extending water and sewer lines to individual lots or subdivisions.

Sec. 4. From and after the effective date of the annexation ordinance, the territory and its citizens and property shall be subject to all debts, laws, ordinances and regulations in force in such municipality and shall be entitled to the same privileges and benefits as other parts of such municipality. The newly annexed territory shall be subject to municipal taxes levied for the fiscal year following the effective date of annexation.

Sec. 5. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of April, 1973.