A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to incorporate the town of red cross.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  A Charter for the Town of Red Cross is enacted to read:
"Charter of the town of red cross.
"ARTICLE I. INCORPORATION AND CORPORATE POWERS.
"Section 1.1. Incorporation and Corporate Powers. The inhabitants of the Town of Red Cross are a body corporate and politic under the name 'Town of Red Cross'. The Town of Red Cross has all the powers, duties, rights, privileges, and immunities conferred and imposed on cities by the general law of North Carolina.
"ARTICLE II. CORPORATE BOUNDARIES.
"Section 2.1. Town Boundaries. Until modified in accordance with the law, the boundaries of the town of Red Cross are as follows:

BEGINNING at the northwest corner of the property having pin number 559500704616, said point also being located in the southern right‑of‑way of Lakewood Road, thence from said point of beginning along the southern right‑of‑way of Lakewood Road in a southwesterly direction approximately 1263 feet to the intersect of the eastern right‑of‑way of NC 205 Highway and the southern right‑of‑way of Lakewood Road to a point, thence in a southerly direction with the eastern right‑of‑way of NC 205 Highway to the intersect of the eastern right‑of‑way of NC 205 Highway and the southern right‑of‑way of Hatley Burris Road to a point, thence in a southwesterly direction with the southern right-of-way of Hatley Burris Road to the westernmost corner of the property having pin number 559400585598, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northern most corner of the property having pin number 559400597149, thence in a northwesterly direction to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 559400595534, thence in a northerly direction to the southeast corner of the property having pin number 559400591934, thence in a westerly direction to the southwest corner of above said property, thence in a southwesterly direction with the southern right‑of‑way of Hilltop Road to the northeast corner of the property having pin number 559400499069, thence in a southerly direction to the northwest corner of the property having pin number 559400583812, thence in a southwesterly direction to the southern corner of the property having pin number 559400499069, thence in a southwesterly direction to the southeast corner of the above said property, thence in a northwesterly direction to the southwestern corner of above said property, thence in a northeasterly direction with above said property, thence in a northwesterly direction to the northwest corner of above said property, thence in a westerly direction with the right‑of‑way of Hilltop Road to the northeast corner of the property having pin number 559400492694, thence in a southerly direction to the northern corner of the property having pin number 559400483960, thence in a southeasterly direction to the eastern corner of the above said property, thence in a southwesterly direction to the southern corner of the property having pin number 559400481784, thence in a northwesterly direction to the extended northwest corner of the property having pin number 559400399466 and the northern right‑of‑way of Hilltop Road, thence in a northeasterly direction with the northern right‑of‑way of Hilltop Road to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559400492854, thence in a northerly direction to the northwest corner of the property having pin number 559500402236, thence in a westerly direction to the southwest corner of the property having pin number 559500402988, thence in a northerly direction to the southwest corner of the property having pin number 559500410214, thence in a westerly direction to the southwest corner of the above said property, thence in a northerly direction to the northwest corner of the above said property, thence with the southern right‑of‑way of Peachtree Road to the northeast corner of the property having pin number 559500313054, thence in a southerly direction to the southeast corner of the above said property, thence in a westerly direction to the western corner of the above said property, thence in a southwesterly direction to a corner of the property having pin number 559500216320, thence in a southwesterly direction to the southern corner of the property having pin number 559500106395, thence in a northerly direction to the southeast corner of the property having pin number 559500103284, thence in a southwesterly direction to the northeast corner of the property having pin number 559400099666, thence in a southeasterly direction to the extended southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559400190449 and the western right‑of‑way of Hilltop Road to a point, thence in a northwesterly direction with the western right‑of‑way of Hilltop Road  to the extended northwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500002971 to a point, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northern corner of the above said property, thence in a southeasterly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in an easterly direction to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500006628, thence in a southerly direction to the southeast corner of the property having pin number 559500007506, thence in a northeasterly direction with the northern right‑of‑way of Peachtree Road to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500100870, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a southeasterly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in an easterly direction  with the northern right‑of‑way of Peachtree Road to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500113363, thence in a southeasterly direction with the northern property lines of the above said property and the property having pin number 559500115329 to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500115329, thence in a southern direction with the property line of the above said property to a corner, thence in a southeasterly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence with the northwestern right‑of‑way of Peachtree Road to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500210443, thence to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northern corner of the property having pin number 559500212612, thence in an easterly direction to the eastern corner of the above said property, thence with the northern right‑of‑way of Peachtree Road to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500313054, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in an easterly direction to the corner of the property having pin number 559500412899, thence in a northerly direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in an easterly direction to a corner of the above said property, thence in a southerly direction with the above said property to a corner, thence in an easterly direction to the western corner of the property having pin number 559500513793, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northern corner of the above said property, thence with the western right‑of‑way of NC 205 Highway to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500437527, thence in an westerly, and then southwesterly, direction with the property line of the above said property to the southwest corner of the above said property, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a northerly direction to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500433884, thence in an easterly direction to the northeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a generally westerly direction with the southern property line of the property having pin number 559500442720, thence in a westerly direction to a corner of the property having pin number 559500341479, thence in a southerly direction to the southeast corner of the above said property, thence in a northwesterly direction to the southwest corner of the above said property, thence in a northerly direction to a corner of the above said property, thence in an easterly direction to the southwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a westerly direction to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500141931, thence in a southwesterly direction to the southern corner of the property having pin number 559500043112, thence in a southeasterly direction to the eastern corner of the property having pin number 559500043915, thence in a northwesterly direction with the southwestern property line of the above said property to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 558500955410, thence in a westerly direction to the southwest corner of the property having pin number 558500856241, thence in a northerly direction to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 558500748984, thence in a southeasterly direction to the southwestern corner of the above said property, thence with the eastern right‑of‑way of Pless Mill Road to the northern corner of the property having pin number 558500844115, thence in a southeasterly direction to the eastern corner of the property having pin number 558500835789, thence in a southwesterly direction to the southern corner of the above said property, thence with the eastern right‑of‑way of Pless Mill and then Hilltop Road to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 558500927048, thence in a northwesterly direction to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 558500825910, thence in a northerly direction to the northwest corner of the above said property, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northern corner of the above said property, thence with the western right‑of‑way of Pless Mill Road to the southern corner of the property having pin number 558500840628, thence in a northwesterly direction to the extended right‑of‑way of the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 558500748984 and the northern right-of-way of NC 24/27 Highway to a point, thence in an easterly direction with the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to the intersect of the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway and the western right‑of‑way of Running Creek Church Road to a point, thence in a northerly direction with the western right‑of‑way of Running Creek Church Road and the northern right‑of‑way of Bethel Church Road, thence in an easterly direction with the northern right of way of Bethel Church  to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 558500873602, thence in a northerly direction to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 558500874785, thence in an easterly direction to the northeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a northeasterly direction to the extended property line of the property having pin number 558500982395 and the northern right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road, thence with the northern, and then eastern, right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road to the extended right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road and the southern right‑of‑way of Bethel Church Road to a point, thence in a westerly direction with the southern right‑of‑way of Bethel Church Road to the eastern corner of the property having pin number 558500875287, thence in a westerly direction to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 558500856992, thence in a southerly direction to a corner of the above said property, thence in an easterly direction to a corner of the above said property, thence in a southerly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property and the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to a point, thence in an easterly direction with the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 558500954995, thence in a northerly direction to the northwest corner of the above said property, thence in an easterly direction to the northeast corner of the above said property, thence in a southerly direction to the southeast corner of the property having pin number 558500956841 and the intersect of the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to a point, thence with the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to the intersect of the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway and the western right‑of‑way of Bethel Church Road to a point, thence with the northern right‑of‑way of Bethel Church Road and the extended corner of the property having pin number 559500056889 to a point, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a southeastern direction to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500058626 and the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to a point, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property to a corner, thence in a northeasterly direction to a corner of the above said property, thence in a southeasterly direction to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500352901 and the western right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road to a point, thence in a northerly direction with the western right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road and the extended northwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500357853 to a point, thence in a southeasterly direction to the northeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500355598, thence in a northwesterly direction to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500464329, thence in a southerly direction with the eastern right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road to the intersect of the eastern right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road and the extended southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500363695 to a point, thence in a northwesterly direction to the northwest corner of the above said property, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northern corner of the property having pin number 559500366724, thence in a southeasterly direction to the western most corner of the property having pin number 559500378012, thence in a northerly direction to a corner of the above said property, thence in an easterly direction to the extended northeast corner of the above said property and the eastern right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road to a point, thence in a southerly direction with the eastern right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500465989, thence in a northeastern direction to the northeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a southeastern direction to a corner of the above said property, thence in a northeastern direction to a corner of the above said property, thence in a northwesterly direction to the southern corner of the property having pin number 559500487387, thence in a northwesterly direction to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500486524, thence in a southwesterly direction to the southwestern corner of above said property, thence in a northwesterly direction to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500388126, thence in a southwesterly direction to the extended southwestern corner of the above said property and the western right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road, thence in a northerly direction with the western right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road to the northeast corner of the property having pin number 559500383023, thence in a northwesterly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a northwesterly direction to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500382108, thence in a northeasterly direction to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500380268, thence in a northeasterly direction to the extended northwestern corner of the above said property and the northern right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road to a point, thence in an easterly direction with the northern right‑of‑way of Smith Grove Road to the westernmost corner of the property having pin number 559500388126, thence in an easterly direction to the extended northeast corner of the property having pin number 559500584879 and the eastern right‑of‑way of Jacob Road to a point, thence in a southeasterly direction with the eastern right‑of‑way of Jacob Road to the intersect of the eastern right‑of‑way of Jacob Road and the western right-of-way of Ridgecrest Road to a point, thence in an easterly direction to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500678232, thence in a southeasterly direction to the easternmost corner of the property having pin number 559500761927, thence in a northeasterly direction with the western right‑of‑way of Gaddis Road to the extended northwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500765865 and the western right‑of‑way of Gaddis Road to a point, thence in a southeastern direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a southwestern direction with the above said property line to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500669099, thence in a southern direction to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500756605, thence in an eastern direction to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500850878, thence in a northern direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in an eastern direction to the northeast corner of the above said property, thence in a southern direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in an eastern direction to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500952932, thence in a northern direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in an eastern direction to the northeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a southern direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in an eastern direction to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500953703, thence in a southern direction to the intersect of the southeastern corner of the above said property and the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway, thence in an eastern direction with the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500957855, thence in a northerly direction to the northern corner of the property having pin number 559500967325, thence in a southerly direction to the intersect of the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500957855 and the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway, thence in an easterly direction with the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 650500056704, thence in a northerly direction to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 650500058931, thence in an easterly direction to the northeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a southerly direction to the intersect of the southeastern corner of the above said property and the northern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 650500262275, thence in a northerly direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a generally easterly direction with the northern property line of the above said property to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 650500265371, thence in a northeasterly direction to the northwestern most corner of the property having pin number 650500268540, thence in an eastern direction to the northeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a southeastern direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in an eastern direction to the corner of the property having pin number 650500360392, thence in a northern direction to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 650500361593, thence in an eastern direction to the northeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a southern direction to the intersect of the extended southeastern corner of the above said property and the southern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway  to a point, thence in a western direction with the southern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 650500351705, thence in a southerly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a westerly direction to the southwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a northerly direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a westerly direction with the southern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 650500254762, thence in a southerly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a westerly direction to the southwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a northerly direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a westerly direction with the southern right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 650500159460, thence in a southerly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a western direction to the intersect of the property line of the property having pin number 650500151160 and the eastern right‑of‑way of Lakewood Road to a point, thence in a southerly direction with the eastern right‑of‑way of Lakewood Road to the intersect of the property line of the property having pin number 650500151160, thence in a southerly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a westerly direction to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 650500045993, thence in  southwesterly direction to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500952193, thence in a northwesterly direction to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500844105, thence in a westerly direction to the southwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a northerly direction to the northwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a westerly direction to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500743314, thence in a northwesterly direction to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500741963, thence in a westerly direction with the southern extended right‑of‑way of NC 24/27 Highway to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500548819, thence in a southerly direction to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500547794, thence in a westerly direction to the southwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a southern direction to the northwestern corner of the property having pin number 652700918836, thence in an easterly direction to the eastern corner of the above said property, thence in a southwesterly direction to the southwestern corner of the above said property, thence in a southern direction, following eastern property lines, to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500425859, thence in an easterly direction to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500527774, thence in a southern direction to the southeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500620269, thence in an easterly direction to the northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500710159, thence in a southeasterly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property and the northern right‑of‑way of Lakewood Road to a point, thence in an easterly direction with the northern right‑of‑way of Lakewood Road to the intersect of the northern right‑of‑way of Lakewood Road and the extended northeastern corner of the property having pin number 559500706769, thence in a southeasterly direction to the southeastern corner of the above said property, thence in a westerly direction to the southwestern corner of the property having pin number 559500704616, thence in a northwesterly direction to the intersect of the northwestern corner of the above said property and the southern right‑of‑way of Lakewood Road to the point of beginning.
EXCEPTED from the above‑described track are the following internal parcels: 
(1) 	Property having pin number 559500553885.
(2) 	Property having pin number 559500561490.
(3) 	Property having pin number 559500552596.
(4) 	Property having pin number 559500476425.
(5) 	Property having pin number 559500475814.
(6) 	Property having pin number 559500470701.
(7) 	Property having pin number 559500611552.
(8) 	Property having pin number 559500612263.
(9) 	Property having pin number 559500614021.
(10) 	Those parcels of land in Arbor Heights subdivision, and road right‑of‑ways of Redwood Drive and Birchwood Court recorded in Plat Book 17 Page 386 and previously annexed into the town of Oakboro, NC.
"ARTICLE iii. gOVERNING bODY.
"Section 3.1. Structure of Governing Body. The governing body of the Town of Red Cross shall be the Town Council, which shall have four members and the Mayor.
"Section 3.2. Temporary Officers. Until the initial elections of 2003 provided for by Section 4.1 of this Charter, C. J. Barbee, Heath Hahn, J. D. Hinson, Raeford Quick, and Larry Wayne Smith are hereby appointed to the Town Council of the Town of Red Cross. They shall possess and exercise the powers granted to the governing body until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified pursuant to this Charter. The temporary officers shall elect a person from among the members of the temporary governing body to serve as interim mayor. If any person named in this section is unable to serve, the remaining temporary officers shall, by majority vote, appoint a person to serve until the regular municipal elections are held in 2003.
"Section 3.3. Manner of Electing Town Council; Term of Office. The qualified voters of the entire Town shall elect the members of the Town Council and, except as provided in this section, they shall be elected to four‑year terms. In 2003, the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected to four‑year terms and the two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected to two‑year terms. In 2005, and quadrennially thereafter, two members shall be elected to four‑year terms.
"Section 3.4. Manner of Electing Mayor; Term of Office; Duties. The qualified voters of the entire Town shall elect the Mayor. In 2003, and quadrennially thereafter, the Mayor shall be elected for a term of four years.
"Section 3.5. Residence of Governing Body Members. All members of the governing body of the Town of Red Cross, whether elected or appointed, must be qualified voters who reside within the corporate limits of the Town of Red Cross in order to qualify to take, hold, and continue in any such office.
"ARTICLE IV. ELECTIONS.
"Section 4.1. Conduct of Town Elections. Elections shall be conducted on a nonpartisan basis and results determined by a plurality as provided in G.S. 163‑292.
"ARTICLE V. ADMINISTRATION.
"Section 5.1. Village to Operate Under Mayor‑Council Plan. The Town of Red Cross will operate under the Mayor‑Council form of government as provided in Part 3 of Article 7 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes."
SECTION 2.  From and after the effective date of this act, the citizens and property in the Town of Red Cross shall be subject to municipal taxes levied for the year beginning July 1, 2002, and for that purpose, the Town shall obtain from Stanly County a record of property in the area incorporated in Section 1 of this act that was listed for taxes as of January 1, 2002. The Town may adopt a budget ordinance for fiscal year 2002‑2003 without following the timetable in the Local Government Budget and Fiscal Control Act, but shall follow the sequence of actions in the spirit of the act insofar as is practical. For fiscal year 2002‑2003, ad valorem taxes may be paid at par or face amount within 90 days of adoption of the budget ordinance and thereafter in accordance with the schedule in G.S. 105‑360. If the effective date of incorporation is prior to July 1, 2002, the Town may adopt a budget ordinance for fiscal year 2001‑2002 without following the timetable in the Local Government Budget and Fiscal Control Act, but shall follow the sequence of actions in the spirit of the act insofar as is practical.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.