NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 5

HOUSE BILL 27

 

 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF EDENTON TO SELL AT PRIVATE SALE CERTAIN LANDS THAT IT MAY ACQUIRE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

 

WHEREAS, the Town of Edenton may acquire from the General Services Administration, an agency of the Federal Government, a fee simple title to certain real estate in Chowan County, being commonly known as the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station and Fish Hatchery, both of which have been declared surplus to the needs of the Federal Government; and

WHEREAS, the land is ideally adaptable for use by industrial plants and the public interest will be promoted by selling the said property as sites for industrial plants and thereby increase the taxable value of the property; and

WHEREAS, such sales can be more advantageously effected through private sales than through public sales: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That the governing body of the City of Edenton, in the exercise of its discretion, is hereby authorized to sell, convey, lease, rent, or otherwise dispose of privately any or all of that certain tract of land described in the preamble hereof without the necessity of disposing of the land publicly as required by G. S. 160-59, for such consideration as the members of the governing body consider its fair market value.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of February, 1961.