GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	2 

SENATE BILL 356
House Committee Substitute Favorable 5/21/97

Short Title:  Reidsville Annexations/Hinson Dam Exempt.	(Local)

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March 11, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITY OF REIDSVILLE TO DELAY THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF ANNEXATIONS AS TO A SPECIFIED TRACT AND TO EXEMPT THE ANNEXATION OF TWO CITY LAKES FROM THE CEILING ON SATELLITE ANNEXATIONS AND TO EXEMPT HINSON LAKE DAM FROM THE DAM SAFETY LAW OF 1967.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Charter of the City of Reidsville, being Chapter 957, Session Laws of 1989, is amended by adding the following new sections:
"Sec. 1.4.  Effective date of annexation ordinances.
(a)	The provisions of G.S. 160A-31(d), 160A-58.2, and 160A-58.7 notwithstanding, the city council may make annexation ordinances adopted pursuant to Part 1 or 4 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes effective on any specified date within four years from the date of passage of the annexation ordinance.
(b)	The provisions of G.S. 160A-49(e)(4) notwithstanding, the city council may fix the effective date of annexation ordinances adopted pursuant to Part 3 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes for any date not less than 40 days nor more than four years from the date of passage of the ordinances.
(c)	This section applies only to the following described area:
Being a tract of land located in Reidsville Township, Rockingham County, North Carolina.
BEGINNING at a concrete right-of-way monument at the southwest quadrant intersection of N.C. Highway 87 and U.S. Highway 29; specifically, said beginning monument being located by North Carolina Grid system tie North 69 deg. 13 min. 47 sec. West 416.92 feet from North Carolina Grid monument 'Holiday Inn,' a brass disc set in concrete on the north side of the N. C. Highway 87 bridge over U.S. Highway 29 and approximately situated over the western edge of the east lane of U. S. Highway 29; thence, from said beginning monument along and with the western controlled access right-of-way of U. S. Highway 29 the following courses and distances:
South 10 deg. 29 min. 32 sec. West 329.37 feet to a concrete monument, South 02 deg. 25 min. 31 sec. West 214.10 feet to a concrete monument, South 02 deg. 27 min. 59 sec. East 109.57 feet to a concrete monument, South 01 deg. 05 min. 19 sec. East 192.01 feet to a concrete monument, South 05 deg. 26 min. 27 sec. West 243.44 feet to a concrete monument, South 16 deg. 37 min. 08 sec. West 1,242.82 feet to an existing iron pipe, a corner with Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc.; thence leaving the controlled access right-of-way of U. S. Highway 29 and with the line of Laidlaw Environmental Services North 80 deg. 35 min. 23 sec. West 952.84 feet to an existing iron pipe in the east right-of-way of Watlington Industrial Drive (SR 2664); thence continuing with said right-of-way, North 00 deg. 27 min. 49 sec. East 632.38 feet to an iron pipe set at the P. C. of a curve; thence continuing with said right-of-way along the arc of a curve right with a radius of 1,442.45 feet, a distance of 456.49 feet to an iron pipe set; said curve  having a chord of North 09 deg. 31 min. 47 sec. East 454.59 feet; thence North 18 deg. 35 min. 45 sec. East 754.96 feet to an iron pipe set in said right-of-way of Watlington Industrial Drive and being the P. C. of a curve; thence continuing along with said right-of-way the arc of said curve right with a radius of 1,424.90 feet, a distance of 393.88 feet to an iron pipe set, said curve having a chord of North 26 deg. 30 min. 54 sec. East 392.63 feet; thence continuing said right-of-way North 34 deg. 25 min. 31 sec. East 544.62 feet to an iron pipe set in the right-of-way at the southeast quadrant intersection of Watlington Industrial Drive and N. C. Highway 87; thence along and with the right-of-way of N. C. Highway 87 at the following courses and distances:  South 51 deg. 21 min. 01 sec. East 386.10 feet to a concrete right-of-way monument, South 48 deg. 48 min. 36 sec. East 247.82 feet to a concrete right-of-way monument, South 48 deg. 54 min. 44 sec. East 115.28 feet to a concrete right-of-way monument, the point of beginning and containing 60.269 Acres as per survey dated May 24, 1993, by Obie M. Chambers and Associates, R. L. S., Reidsville, North Carolina.
	"Sec. 1.5.  Satellite annexations.  The area annexed by an annexation ordinance adopted by the City of Reidsville on April 13, 1995, shall not be included in any calculations made under G.S. 160A-58.1(b)(5)."
Section 2.  G.S. 143-215.25A is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
	"( c)  In addition to the exemptions set forth under subsection (a) of this section, this Part does not apply to any dam owned by the Wildlife Resources Commission and located in Richmond County at Lake Hinson.  The City of Rockingham shall install, operate, and maintain a detection and early warning system to alert motorists of any danger presented to motorists using Secondary Road 1646 in Richmond County by rising water levels in Lake Hinson during storm events."
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.