S.L. 1981-273

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 273

HOUSE BILL 708

AN ACT TO REDEFINE THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF BETHEL IN PITT COUNTY TO ANNEX A CERTAIN AREA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Chapter 997, Session Laws of 1969 is amended by deleting the metes and bounds description contained therein, and inserting in lieu thereof a new description of the corporate limits of the Town of Bethel to read:

"Beginning at a stake in the western right-of-way line of N.C. Highway No. 11, said stake being located 150 feet northwardly from the intersection of the northern right-of-way line of Harper Drive with the western right-of-way line of N.C. Highway No. 11; thence with the western line of N.C. Highway No. 11 S02°00'W, 62.0 feet; thence crossing N.C. Highway No. 11 and with the northern right-of-way line of S.R. 1501 N72°30'E., 237.0 feet; thence leaving said right-of-way of S.R. 1501 S19°43'E., 3,430 feet to a point in the center line of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad track, thence S06°37'W., 500.2 feet to the northern right-of-way of South Railroad Street; thence with the northern right-of-way line of South Railroad Street S61°23'E., 107.9 feet; thence leaving said right-of-way N06°37'E., 108.8 feet; thence N81°36'E., 217.0 feet; thence S00°23'E, 205.5 feet to the southern right-of-way line of East Washington Street; thence with the southern right-of-way line of East Washington Street S81°12'W., 347.2 feet; thence leaving said right-of-way of East Washington Street S06°37'W, 1,828.1 feet; thence S83°23'E., 273 feet; thence S06°37'W, 671 feet to a point in the southern right-of-way line of the Flat Swamp Road; thence with the southern right-of-way line of the Flat Swamp Road N62°43'W., 355 feet; thence N69°W., 300 feet; thence N75°30'W., 376 feet; thence leaving the southern right-of-way of Flat Swamp Road S08°30'W., 558.6 feet to an iron stake; thence S06°30'W., 176.5 feet to an iron stake; thence S08°30'W., 461.27 feet to the center of the VEPCO primary power transmission line; thence with the center of the VEPCO power line S78°27'W., 2,497.15 feet to a hedgerow dividing the Blount and Carson properties; thence with the Blount-Carson line N03°35'E., 880.7 feet to the center of N.C.S.R. No. 1429; thence with said road N74°52'W., 165 feet; thence leaving said road N29°12'W., 1,718.45 feet; thence N40°12'W., 1,190 feet; thence N04°30'W., 200.0 feet to a point in the southern right-of-way line of West Washington Street; thence with the southern right-of-way line of West Washington Street S85°30'W., 1,370 feet; thence S85°02'W., 699.4 feet; thence leaving said right-of-way of West Washington Street N05°27'W., 422.0 feet to a point in the centerline of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad track; thence with the centerline of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad track N84°52'E., 2,744.9 feet; thence leaving said centerline of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad and with the eastern side of a ditch N07°30'W., 495 feet to an iron stake; thence N72°E., 715 feet; thence parallel and 150 feet westerly from the western right-of-way line of Robinson Street N06°30'E., 2,540 feet more or less to the southern right-of-way line of Hammond Avenue; thence with the southern line of Hammond Avenue S84°00'E., 470.0 feet more or less to the centerline of a canal; thence with the centerline of said canal N03°57"e., 1,490.0 feet; thence N04°35'E., 361.0 feet to the centerline intersection of a ditch; thence with the centerline of said ditch S72°00'E., 659.5 feet; thence leaving centerline of said ditch and with the eastern right-of-way of Greenbriar Road extension S03°45'W., 1,514.0 feet; thence leaving said eastern right-of-way of Greenbriar Road extension S84°00'E., 150.0 feet; thence N02°00'E., 400 feet; thence S87°45'E., 1,108 feet to the point of beginning."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of April, 1981.