GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 79

SENATE BILL 137

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF HICKORY TO CONVEY A PARCEL OF LAND AT PRIVATE SALE TO THE HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART, INC., AND TO VALIDATE A CONVEYANCE BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE HICKORY ADMINISTRATIVE SCHOOL UNIT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Notwithstanding Article 12 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, the City of Hickory is authorized to convey at private sale, with or without monetary consideration, to the Hickory Museum of Art, Inc., its right, title, and interest to the following described parcel of land:

Adjoining the lands of the City of Hickory and others, and more particularly described as follows:

BEGINNING at a stake in the Northern property line of 3rd Avenue, N.W. (formerly 13th Avenue) at the point of its intersection with the Western margin of 5th Street,

N.W. (formerly 16th Street) which stake is also located 30 feet Westward from the Southwest corner of the former

P. A. Setzer homeplace property and runs from said beginning point with the Northern property line of 3rd Avenue, N.W. North 87° 09' West 100 feet, more or less, to a stake, formerly A. Hutton's Southeast corner and now the Southeast corner of the property of the City of Hickory; thence with the line of the said property of the City of Hickory North 2° 33' East 145 feet, more or less, to a stake, another corner of the property of the City of Hickory; thence with another line of said property of the City of Hickory North 87° 07' West 90.17 feet, more or less, to a stake, another corner of the property of the City of Hickory; thence with another line of the property of the City of Hickory, North 2° 29' East 150 feet, more or less, to a stake located at another corner of the property of the City of Hickory and also located at the former Northwest corner of Horace C. Lutz and later the Northwest corner of the lot of Horace C. Lutz, Jr. and wife, Maxine L. Lutz; thence South 86° 36' East with another line of the property of the City of Hickory, 29.06 feet to a stake, formerly the Southwest corner of Miss Mabel Hight and now another corner of the property of the City of Hickory; thence continuing with a line of the property of the City of Hickory, South 86° 36' East 159.88 feet, more or less, to a stake in the Western margin of 5th Street, N.W., formerly the Southeast corner of the lot of Miss Mabel Hight and now a corner of the property of the City of Hickory; thence with the Western margin of 5th Street,

N.W., Southward 300 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning. For further description of and chain of title to the above described property, reference is made to the following deeds and the records thereof in the office of the Register of Deeds for Catawba County, North Carolina: Deed from R. A. Lapsley, Jr., guardian for Mrs. T. J. Greene, to Horace C. Lutz, dated September 15, 1921 and recorded in said registry in Book 152, page 543; deed from G. Norman Hutton and wife, Opal Hutton, to H. C. Lutz dated September 12, 1935 and recorded in said registry in Book 265, page 163; and deed from H. C. Lutz, Sr. and wife, Ella Jackson Lutz, to Horace C. Lutz, Jr. and wife, Maxine L. Lutz, dated July 12, 1957 and recorded in said registry in Book 556, page 242.

Sec. 2.  The resolution of the Board of Education of the Hickory Administrative School Unit, adopted November 22, 1982, which releases and conveys to the Corinth United Church of Christ certain property no longer needed for school purposes in exchange for a lease from Corinth United Church of Christ to Hickory Arts Center, Inc., and from Hickory Arts Center, Inc., to the Board of Education of the Hickory Administrative School Unit, is validated.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of March, 1983.