S.L. 1969-905

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 905

HOUSE BILL 1224

AN ACT TO DELETE A CERTAIN AREA FROM THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF BOONE, AND TO PROVIDE STAGGERED TERMS FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE SALE OF CERTAIN PROPERTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 988, Session Laws of 1967, is hereby amended by adding a new section, to be designated Section 1.1, and to read as follows:

"Sec. 1.1. The corporate limits of the Town of Boone is hereby amended by deleting from the area described in Section 1 that area herein described as follows:

"BEGINNING on an iron stake in the West margin of Poplar Hill Drive, said iron stake being located North 19 degrees 04' 31" East 200' from the center of N. C. Highway #105, and runs thence South 19 degrees 04' 31" West 500 feet to an iron stake in the present town limit line; thence North 68 degrees 11' 07" West 4200 feet to a stake; thence North 87 degrees 54' 04" West 485.64 feet to a stake; thence North 00 degrees 24' 53" West, crossing N. C. Highway #105, 776.26 feet to a stake; thence North 75 degrees 02' 39" East 120 feet to a stake; thence South 68 degrees 11' 55" East 2019.44 feet to a stake; thence North 68 degrees 44' 58" East 2240.72 feet to a stake; thence South 06 degrees 15' West 1500 feet to a stake; thence South 52 degrees 45' East 800 feet to the BEGINNING."

The Board of Aldermen is hereby authorized to refund to each taxpayer, who was or is the owner of property in the area described above, one-half of the real and personal property tax actually collected from such taxpayer for any taxable year after 1965.

Sec. 2. Section 2 of Chapter 988, Session Laws of 1967, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"The Board of Aldermen of the Town of Boone shall have five members, elected for staggered terms. In the regular municipal election to be held in the Town of Boone in 1969, there shall be elected five members to the Board of Aldermen. The two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of four (4) years, and the three (3) candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of two (2) years. At the regular municipal election held in 1971, and biennially thereafter, three members of the Board of Aldermen shall be elected, and the two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of four (4) years, and the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of two (2) years."

Sec. 3. The Board of Aldermen is hereby authorized to execute an option to sell and to sell at private sale the lands hereinafter described or any part thereof. Provided, that the minimum sale price shall not be less than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) and the sale shall be subject to any easements, reservations, or restrictions affecting said property:

"BEGINNING at a concrete monument in the southern right of way of Faculty Street, said monument being located 30 feet from the center line of Faculty Street as presently located, and running thence South 18 degrees West 225.40 feet to an old iron stake; thence South 63 degrees 56' East 245.44 feet to a stake, corner to Appalachian State University; thence with the Appalachian State University line North 16 degrees 22' East 228.60 feet to a stake in the southern right of way of Faculty Street; thence with the southern right of way of Faculty Street North 64 degrees 26' 06" West 238.57 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 1.2467 acres."

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, except Chapter 629, Session Laws of 1969.

Sec. 5. 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 17th day of June, 1969.