GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 833
HOUSE BILL 2161

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, TO DISPOSE OF PROPERTY BY PRIVATE SALE IN CONNECTION WITH LEASE-PURCHASE ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONVERTING THE D.N. HIX SCHOOL COMPLEX INTO A CITY HALL AND FIRE HOUSE, AND TO ALLOW MCDOWELL COUNTY TO RECONVEY PROPERTY IT OBTAINED WITHOUT MONETARY CONSIDERATION BECAUSE SUCH PROPERTY IS NOT NEEDED FOR THE PURPOSE IT WAS ACQUIRED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding Article 12 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, the City of Oxford in Granville County may convey at private sale the following described property or portions thereof, or more lease-purchase arrangements for conversion of, and expansion to existing buildings to house a City Hall and Fire Department:
Lying and being in the City of Oxford, a tract of land containing 12.5 acres more or less, and known as the D.N. Hix School Complex bounded on the east by Cooper Avenue, on the north by Williamsboro Street, on the west by Belle Street, on the south by Spring Street; the same comprising the entire block so bounded with the exception of one lot on the south west corner of the said block, which same is in the ownership of James E. Bullock and wife Carolyn H. Bullock which said excepted property is described by deed of record in Book 192, page 432 in the Granville County Registry.
Sec.  2.  Notwithstanding Article 12 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, the County of McDowell may convey to Great Meadows, Inc., at private sale, with or without monetary consideration, any or all of its right, title, and interest to the property conveyed by Great Meadows, Inc., to the County of McDowell by deed dated January 13, 1987, and recorded in Book 407, Page 416, McDowell County Registry.
Sec.  3.  Section 1 of this act is effective on the latter of ratification or July 1, 1990.  Section 2 of this act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 3rd day of July, 1990.