GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001

HOUSE BILL 712
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT TO ANNEX CERTAIN DESCRIBED AREAS TO THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF MOREHEAD CITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The corporate limits of the Town of Morehead City are extended to include the following described area:
Area 1: Medical Park Foundation 6/30/97 Voluntary Annexation Correction
Being all of lots 6, 7, 8 and 9 inclusive of the Little Nine Subdivision as per survey by James L. Powell, Registered Surveyor, dated December 23, 1981, recorded in Map Book 18, Page 97, Carteret County Registry. Being a part of the property conveyed by Ballou Enterprises, Inc., a North Carolina corporation to William H. Page and wife, Jane W. Page, by deed dated October 18, 1983, recorded in Book 489, Page 51, Carteret County Registry, and being the same property conveyed by William H. Page and wife, Jane W. Page to Bay Foods, Inc., a North Carolina corporation, by deed dated December 14, 1983, recorded in Book 491, Page 274, Carteret County Registry.
SECTION 2.  The corporate limits of the Town of Morehead City are extended to include the following described areas:
Area 2: Annexation of Waterways Adjacent to Corporate Limits
Beginning at a point on the southwesternmost corporate boundary at the point of intersection with the eastern shore of Spooners Creek, then traveling due South a distance of 500 feet, then eastward remaining parallel with and 500 feet south of the corporate limit boundary the length of the Bogue Sound shoreline to the point of intersection with the western shoreline of Sugarloaf Island, then continuing eastward along the northernmost boundary of Sugarloaf Island to a point 500 feet east of the NC State Ports Authority property [Morehead City Port Terminal], then southwardly and then eastwardly remaining 500 feet from and parallel to the Port Terminal property and continuing in an eastwardly direction to a point of 500 feet west of the western shoreline of Radio Island, then southwardly remaining 500 feet west of and parallel to the shoreline of Radio Island to a point 500 feet due south of the southernmost point of tax parcel identification number (PIN) 639566594100 NC State Port Authority property located on Radio Island, then due north 500 feet to the point of intersection with the shoreline of Radio Island, then northwardly following the westernmost shoreline of Radio Island and crossing the causeway to the point of intersection with the northernmost right-of-way boundary of the Morehead-Beaufort high rise bridge [US Highway 70 right-of-way], then westwardly following the northernmost boundary of the Morehead-Beaufort high rise bridge right-of-way to a point 500 feet west of the easternmost Morehead City limits line, then northwardly remaining 500 feet east of and parallel to the easternmost boundary of the Morehead City limit line and continuing in this direction northwardly until the point of intersection with the easternmost shoreline of the Haystack Marshes, identified by Tax Parcel Identification Number (PIN) 639625456300, then following the shoreline of this marsh in a southwardly, then northwestwardly, then northwardly direction along the property line of Tax PIN 639607251800 to a point due east of the northeasternmost corner of Tax PIN 638608884980 [Haystacks Property], then southwardly following the shoreline, encompassing the entire westernmost boundary of Calico Bay and its tributaries to the point of intersection with the northeasternmost corner of Tax PIN 638614349096 [Lot 12, Sec 4, Block F, N Morehead Subdivision property] and being the point of intersection with the primary Morehead City Corporate limit line.
Area 3: Annexation of Bridges Street Extension Right-of-Way and Remnant State Owned Parcels
Beginning on the northernmost boundary of the Bridges Street Extension [SR 1176] right-of-way at the point of intersection with the southwesternmost corner of Tax PIN 637614227856 [Carteret County Property/former "A&P" location] then westwardly, including the portion of Country Club Road [SR 1177] right-of-way northwardly to the existing corporate limit [in the vicinity of West Carteret High School], along the entire length of Bridges Street Extension [SR 1176] to its intersection with the northernmost right-of-way boundary of US Highway 70 and including the full width of these sections of SR 1176 and SR 1177 highway right-of-ways and all the adjoining state-owned remnant properties acquired by the NC Department of Transportation and referenced as follows: Tax PIN 636616748607, 636610468193, 6366104644057, 636610361969 and 636610268767.
Area 4: Annexation of Railroad Right-of-Way
Beginning at the point of intersection with the southeasternmost corner of Tax PIN 636601089018 [NC State Port Authority "Edgewater" Tract] then westwardly and crossing the Arthur Farm Road [SR 1153] right-of-way to the point of intersection with the westernmost right-of-way boundary of Arthur Farm Road [SR 1153] and the point of intersection with the southeasternmost corner of Tax PIN 635607791542 [Town of Morehead City owned property] and including the full width of the railroad right-of-way [North Carolina Railroad Company].
SECTION 3.  Section 1 of this act is effective from and after June 30, 1997.  The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of May, 2001.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives