NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 983

SENATE BILL 406

AN ACT TO REDEFINE THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LAURINBURG, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF PARKS, STREETS, AND SUBDIVISIONS WITHIN ONE MILE OF THE CORPORATE LIMITS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 3 of Chapter 694 of the Session Laws of 1955 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. Corporate limits. The corporate limits of the city shall be as follows:

"Situated in Stewartsville and Laurel Hill Townships, Scotland County, North Carolina, and BEGINNING at a corner in the run of Leith's Creek, located South 42 degrees 52 minutes West 243 feet from a stake in the center of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad main line track (said corner in the center of the railroad track being located southeastwardly 3,957 feet, measured along the center of the track, from the intersection of the center line of the railroad track with the center line of Main Street in the City of Laurinburg), and runs thence from said point of beginning North 42 degrees 51 minutes East 2,664.4 feet to a concrete monument, the eastern corner of the original boundary of the city; thence North 47 degrees 9 minutes West 652.1 feet to a concrete monument in the southern line of Gamma Street; thence with the southern line of Gamma Street North 54 degrees 22 minutes East 546.4 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 12 degrees 11 minutes West 1,251.8 feet to a concrete monument in the southern line of McGirt's Bridge Road; thence with the southern line of McGirt's Bridge Road South 54 degrees 22 minutes West 1,278.5 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 47 degrees 9 minutes West 1,066.8 feet to a concrete monument in the eastern line of property of the City of Laurinburg Housing Authority; thence with the eastern line of the Housing Authority property North 23 degrees 19 minutes West 390.4 feet to a concrete monument; a corner of the Housing Authority land; thence with the northern line of the Housing Authority property South 67 degrees 35 minutes West 173.9 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 47 degrees 9 minutes West 4,146.2 feet to a concrete monument, the northern corner of the original boundary of the City of Laurinburg; thence South 42 degrees 50 minutes West 5,042.7 feet to the center line of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company main track; thence, continuing the same course, South 42 degrees 50 minutes West 2,242.4 feet to a concrete monument, the western corner of the original boundary; thence South 11 degrees 39 minutes East 1,141.1 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 78 degrees 21 minutes East 362.85 feet to a concrete monument; thence South 33 degrees 44 minutes East 781.55 feet to a concrete monument; thence South 10 degrees 12 minutes East 799 feet to a concrete monument in Asheville Street; thence to and with the eastern line of Asheville Street South 21 degrees 14 minutes East 463.7 feet to a concrete monument; thence across Asheville Street and with the line of a ditch South 69 degrees 45 minutes West 331.5 feet; thence with the line of the ditch South 66 degrees 58 minutes West 348 feet; thence with the line of the ditch South 67 degrees 31 minutes West 319.3 feet to a concrete monument in the right-of-way line of the Carolina Power and Light Company; thence with the western right-of-way line of the Carolina Power and Light Company South 51 degrees 2 minutes East 1,735.1 feet to a concrete monument in the South line of Crepe Myrtle Avenue, 50 feet South of the Carolina Power and Light Company's 110 KV transmission line; thence South 65 degrees 57 minutes West 3,513.7 feet to a corner located 400 feet West of the West line of the right-of-way of the bypass on U. S. Highway No. 15-401, measured at right angles to the right-of-way; thence, parallel to the right-of-way, South 0 degrees 22 minutes West 2,848 feet to a corner; thence southwardly along the arc of a circular curve with a radius of 1,427 feet (said curve being tangent to the straight lines meeting it at each end) for a distance of 1,230.1 feet to a corner; thence, parallel to the highway right-of-way, South 49 degrees 46 minutes West 2,190.5 feet to a corner; thence South 37 degrees 56 minutes East 450.5 feet to a corner in the center of the Laurinburg-McColl highway (U. S. Highway No. 15-401); thence with the center of the highway South 51 degrees 5 minutes West 1,342.8 feet to a corner in the center of the highway; thence South 38 degrees 53 minutes East to, and with, the northeastern line of Sycamore Lane for a distance of 2,394.7 feet to a concrete monument at the junction of the northeastern line of Sycamore Lane with the northern line of Oak Drive; thence with the northern line of Oak Drive South 65 degrees 29 minutes East 213.8 feet to a concrete monument in a road; thence South 24 degrees 25 minutes West 308.7 feet to a corner in the road; thence South 6 degrees 55 minutes West 360 feet to a corner in the road; thence South 3 degrees 55 minutes West 2,168 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 86 degrees 10 minutes East 972 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 37 degrees 10 minutes East 1,783 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 27 degrees 40 minutes East 2,022 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 71 degrees 10 minutes East 731 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 43 degrees 15 minutes West 496 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 44 degrees 10 minutes East 310 feet to a corner in the center of the run of Bridge Creek; thence with the approximate East line of the St. Andrews Presbyterian College property North 40 degrees 37 minutes East 4,584.3 feet to a corner at the bend of a ditch; thence North 56 degrees East, crossing Big Branch at a concrete monument and crossing U. S. Highway No. 501 (the Johns Road), for a total distance of 1,578.5 feet to a concrete monument located 430 feet East of the center line of U. S. Highway No. 501, measured at a right angle to the center line of the highway; thence, parallel to U. S. Highway No. 501, North 14 degrees 7 minutes West 2,725.7 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 87 degrees 40 minutes East 1,603.8 feet to an iron pipe in a service drive of the Washington Park School and in the western line of Caledonia Road; thence with the western line of Caledonia Road North 4 degrees 9 minutes East 1,201.5 feet to a concrete monument in the southern right-of-way line of the Carolina Power and Light Company; thence with the southern right-of-way line of the Carolina Power and Light Company North 85 degrees 43 minutes East 661.6 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 60 degrees 46 minutes East 2,150.8 feet to a concrete monument; thence North 52 degrees 12 minutes East 728.6 feet to a corner in the run of Leith's Creek; thence northwardly with the various courses of the run of Leith's creek to the BEGINNING."

Sec. 2. Subsection (10) of Section 1 of Chapter 694 of the Session Laws of 1955 is amended to read as follows:

"(10)   Parks, streets, subdivisions, etc., generally. To regulate the laying out and opening of parks and streets and the size of lots and building lines, not only within the corporate limits of the said city, but within one mile of said corporate limits, and to provide that, before any street is opened or existing street extended or any new subdivision of property opened or lots offered for sale, touching said street or in said subdivision, a map of such proposed subdivision or street shall be submitted, together with such data as the Council, in its discretion, shall require."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1961.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1961.