GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 148

HOUSE BILL 241

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 102 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES BY CORRECTION OF THE DESCRIPTION OF THE OFFICIAL SURVEY BASE FOR THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 102-1.1, as the same appears in the 1985 Replacement Volume 2D of the General Statutes, is amended by deleting the words "World Reference Ellipsoid" on line 10, and substituting the words "Geodetic Reference System (GRS 80 Ellipsoid)"; by adding the following sentence after "grid" on line 16:

"The U.S. Survey Foot, 1 meter = 39.37 inches or 3.2808333333 feet, shall be used as a conversion factor."; by deleting the number "600,000" on line 19, and substituting therefor the number "609,601.22"; and by adding the following new sentence at the end of the section:

"Whenever plane coordinates are used in the description or identification of surface area or location within this State, the coordinates shall be identified as 'NAD 83', indicating North American Datum of 1983, or as 'NAD 27', indicating North American Datum of 1927."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of May, 1987.