GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

 

 

SESSION LAW 2005-174

SENATE BILL 340

 

 

AN ACT to authorize the town of weldon to convey certain property at private or negotiated sale; to authorize the city of roanoke rapids to utilize the design-build method of construction for a fire station; and to exempt from Certain public bidding laws the city of roanoke rapids in the construction of theater projects in its music theater and entertainment district.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.(a)  Notwithstanding Article 12 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, the Town of Weldon may convey by private negotiation and sale, with or without monetary consideration, and upon such terms as the town deems appropriate, any or all of its right, title, and interest in some or all of the following described property:

TRACT 1

That certain tract or parcel of land, together with all the improvements thereon and appurtenances thereunto belonging, lying and being situate in Weldon Township, Halifax County, North Carolina, containing 13.892 Acres, and shown on that certain plat entitled "Plat Showing Property Being Conveyed to Duquesne Energy, Inc. From Rightmyer Machine Rentals, Inc.", prepared by Timmons, dated January 13, 1998, and recorded in Plat Cabinet 6, Slide 22-T, Halifax Public Registry, and being more particularly bounded and described in accordance with said plat as follows:

Commencing at a found monument located on the Eastern right of way of N. C. State Road No. 1734 and the Northern right of way line of N. C. State Road No. 1710, said monument being the true point and place of beginning; thence South 89° 47' 07" West, a distance of 20.07 feet to a found rod; thence along the Eastern right of way line of said State Road No. 1710, North 08° 21' 36" East, a distance of 658.24 feet to a found pipe; thence leaving said right of way line South 81° 31' 33" East, a distance of 400.10 feet to a found pipe; thence North 08° 27' 19" East, a distance of 257.86 feet to a found pipe; thence South 89° 46' 55" East, a distance of 357.26 feet to a found pipe; thence South 11° 21' 04" West, a distance of 967.55 feet to a found pipe; thence North 89° 42' 06" West, a distance of 690.50 feet to a found pipe; thence North 08° 15' 37" East, a distance of 100.17 feet to a found monument, said monument being the true point and place of beginning and containing 13.892 acres of land.

TRACT 2

That certain tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Weldon, Weldon Township, Halifax County, North Carolina, together with all improvements located thereon, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the Southeastern right of way line of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad at which point said right of way line intersects the Northeastern right of way line of West 2nd Street at the back of the curb; thence with the right of way line of West 2nd Street along the back of the curb South 55° 19' East 78.55 feet to a point; thence still with the right of way line of West 2nd Street along the back of the curb South 56° 49' East 77.40 feet to a point; thence in a Southeasterly direction a curve to the left onto Washington Avenue, said curve having a radius of 8.36 feet, 13.09 feet to a point in the back of the curb on Washington Avenue in the Northwestern right of way line of Washington Avenue; thence with the right of way line of Washington Avenue along the back of the curb North 33° 30' East 102.05 feet to a point near the middle of a party brick wall separating the building on the property herein conveyed and the building now occupied as the FCX; thence North 56° 25' West 97.71 feet to a point in the Southeastern right of way line of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad; thence with said railroad right of way line South 64° 49' West 119.02 feet to a railroad iron; thence still with said railroad right of way line South 64° 49' West 9 feet to a point of beginning, containing 14,500.53 square feet as described in a certain map prepared by J. C. Shearin; and being the identical real property conveyed unto Harold W. Wray et ux et al by deed of Heilig-Meyers Company, a Virginia corporation, dated August 6, 2002, and recorded at Book 1928, Page 651, Halifax Public Registry.

TRACT 3

The property within the confines of the block bounded by Washington Avenue, First Street, Sycamore Street, and Second Street.

SECTION 1.(b)  This section applies to the Town of Weldon only.

SECTION 2.(a)  Section 3 of S.L. 2001-425 reads as rewritten:

"SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding G.S. 143-128, 143-129, and 143-132, the City of Roanoke Rapids may use the design-build method of construction for the Neighborhood Resource Center on the site of the old A&P building on the corner of Third and Jackson Streets. Streets and for a new fire station on Old Farm Road."

SECTION 2.(b)  This section applies to the City of Roanoke Rapids only.

SECTION 3.(a)  Except for G.S. 143-128.2 and G.S. 143-128.3, the provisions of Article 8 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes do not apply to the construction of theater projects in the Music Theater and Entertainment District, as that district is defined by the city council.

SECTION 3.(b)  This section applies only to the City of Roanoke Rapids.

SECTION 3.(c)  This section is effective when it becomes law and expires January 1, 2009.

SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12th day of July, 2005.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives