GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

SESSION LAW 2015-79

HOUSE BILL 218

AN ACT To annex certain described PROPERTY to the town of clayton.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The corporate limits of the Town of Clayton are increased by annexing the following described property:

All those certain tracts, parcels, or pieces of land, commonly known as the North Carolina State University Central Crops Research Station, lying and being in Johnston County and Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

TRACT I: Being the following:

Parcel I of Tract I: Being all that certain tract or parcel of land, commonly known as the Gower tract, containing approximately 261 acres, more or less, as conveyed to the State of North Carolina in a Deed dated December 14, 1953, and recorded in Book 513, Page 283, Johnston County Registry, and recorded in Book 4288, Page 661, Wake County Registry.

Parcel II of Tract I: Being all that certain tract or parcel of land containing approximately 100 acres, more or less, as conveyed to the State of North Carolina in a Deed dated December 14, 1953, and recorded in Book 513, Page 283, Johnston County Registry, and recorded in Book 4288, Page 661, Wake County Registry.

TRACT II: Being all that certain tract or parcel of land containing approximately 120 acres, more or less, as conveyed to the State of North Carolina in a Deed dated December 18, 1953, and recorded in Book 519, Page 467, Johnston County Registry.

TRACT III: Being all that certain tract or parcel of land containing approximately 7.59 acres, more or less, as conveyed to the State of North Carolina, North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering in a Deed dated March 31, 1954, and recorded in Book 521, Page 45 in the Johnston County Registry.

TRACT IV: Being all that certain tract or parcel of land containing approximately 0.64 acres, more or less, as conveyed to the State of North Carolina in a Deed dated November 8, 1967, and recorded in Book 665, Page 173 in the Johnston County Registry.

TRACT V: Being all that certain tract or parcel of land, as described in the unrecorded survey plat entitled "Boundary Line Agreement between Jim McLaurin and the State of North Carolina," prepared by Southwind Surveying and Mapping, Inc., dated February 15, 1994, and containing approximately 0.01 acres, more or less, as conveyed to the State of North Carolina in a Deed Establishing Boundary dated March 14, 1995, and recorded in Book 1436, Page 824 in the Johnston County Registry.

The above‑described tracts contain a total of approximately 489.24 acres, more or less.

TOGETHER WITH any right‑of‑way of US Highway 70 that adjoins one or more of the above‑described tracts.

TOGETHER WITH any right‑of‑way of the North Carolina Railroad Company that adjoins one or more of the above‑described tracts.

SECTION 2.  The provisions of Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes shall not apply to the North Carolina State University Central Crops Research Station tract described in Section 1 of this act.

SECTION 3.  The provisions of G.S. 106‑701 shall apply to the North Carolina State University Central Crops Research Station tract described in Section 1 of this act.

SECTION 4.  The keeping of swine as part of a research or educational mission on the North Carolina State University Central Crops Research Station tract described in Section 1 of this act shall be exempt from any municipal ordinance governing the keeping of swine.

SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective June 30, 2015.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15^th day of June, 2015.

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Tim Moore

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives