GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 27
SENATE BILL 149

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE COMMUNITY OF ROCK BARN IN CATAWBA COUNTY MAY BE ANNEXED INVOLUNTARILY ONLY AS A WHOLE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Any of the following described area may be annexed under the provisions of Parts 2 or 3 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes only if the entire described area is annexed by one municipality, by the same annexation ordinance: 
THAT CERTAIN PROPERTY LOCATED IN CLINE'S TOWNSHIP, CATAWBA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, HAVING THE FOLLOWING BOUNDARY:

BEGINNING at an iron pin in the center of Rock Barn Road (State Road #1709), the southwest corner of the W.A. Carpenter estate property in said road, and running thence with the Carpenter estate the following courses and distances:  North 31 Deg. 05' West 705 feet to an iron pin; North 36 Deg. 55' East 146.09 feet to an iron pin; North 35 Deg. 16' East 212.08 feet to an iron pin; North 7 Deg. 48' 30" East 492.14 feet to an iron pin; thence North 6 Deg. 43' East 177.81 feet to an iron pin; thence North 5 Deg. 52' East 734.38 feet to an iron pin; thence North 3 Deg. 46' East 338.71 feet to an iron pin; and North 3 Deg. 26; East 168.25 feet to an iron pin in Lyle's Creek; thence leaving the line of the Carpenter estate and running with the center of Lyle's Creek the following courses and distances:  North 71 Deg. 13' West 300.44 feet; North 41 Deg. 40' West 732 feet; North 35 Deg. 40' West 326 feet; North 03 Deg. 40' East 400 feet; North 29 Deg. 20' West 198 feet; South 86 Deg. 40' West 156 feet; South 29 Deg. 40' West 238 feet and South 09 Deg. 50' West 200 feet, more or less, to a point on the western bank of the creek; thence North 43 Deg. 20' West 260 feet; thence North 82 Deg. 20' West 68 feet; thence North 41 Deg. 40' West 170 feet; thence North 21 Deg. 40' West 646 feet; thence North 50 Deg. 00' West 130 feet; thence North 59 Deg. 00' West 248 feet; thence North 50 Deg. 00' West 227 feet; thence North 58 Deg. 15' West 91.59 feet; thence South 74 Deg. 47' West 195 feet to an iron pin; thence, the same course, South 74 Deg. 47' West 165 feet to an iron pin; thence South 39 Deg. 47' 30" West 214.8 feet to an iron pin; thence South 18 Deg. 29' West 277.08 feet to a corner in the creek; thence South 56 Deg. 30' West 214.5 feet to a point in an old channel, formerly in the line of Hubert L. Dellinger; thence continuing with the center of said creek the following courses and distances:  South 40 Deg. 20' West 150 feet; South 17 Deg. 45' West 390 feet; South 42 Deg. 55' West 860 feet; South 68 Deg. 10' West 1,000 feet; and South 56 Deg. 45' 30" West 302.37 feet to a point, Glenn Bumgarner's corner at or near the mouth of Baker's Creek in said Lyle's Creek; thence with Bumgarner's line South 14 Deg. 14' East (and leaving the creek) 520 feet to an iron pin, corner of Glenn H. Bumgarner; thence with Bumgarner South 62 Deg. 15' 27" West 394.17 feet to an iron pin, Southwest corner of Bumgarner and Southeast corner of Mable Moose; thence with Moose South 60 Deg. 49' 20" West 555.59 feet, Southwest corner of Moose and Southeast corner of Billy F. Bumgarner and also corner of the City of Conover; thence with the City of Conover South 21 Deg. 23' 46" West 2,091.30 feet to an iron pin, corner of City and St. John's Lutheran Church; thence with the Church South 78 Deg. 09' 22" East 1,038.43 feet to an iron pin; thence with Jerry Boggs South 44 Deg. 53' 32" East 48.88 feet to an iron pin; thence with Guy Hollar South 89 Deg. 10' 45" East 810.62 feet; thence again with Hollar South 88 Deg. 06' 34" East 236.39 feet; thence with Bollinger South 88 Deg. 01' East 211.26 feet, Northeast corner of Robert Bollinger and Northwest corner of John Q. Deal, Jr.; thence with John Q. Deal, Jr. South 87 Deg. 29' East 64.98 feet to an iron pin; thence again with Deal's northern line North 88 Deg. 52' East 62.95 feet to an iron pin; thence with another line of Deal South 02 Deg. 10' 30" West 525.98 feet to an iron pin; thence due East 224.81 feet to an iron pin and South 02 Deg. 47' East 71.47 feet to an iron pin; thence North 89 Deg. 50' 30" East 250.02 feet to an iron pin; North 89 Deg. 46' 40" East 405.15 feet to an iron pin; North 89 Deg. 46' 40" East 288.73 feet to an iron pin; North 89 Deg. 06' East 633.69 feet to an iron pin; North 89 Deg. 26' East 675.37 feet to an iron pin; thence North 89 Deg. 29' East 175 feet to an iron pin; thence North 46 Deg. 45' East 190.35 feet to an iron pin; North 50 Deg. 28' East 270.56 feet to an iron pin in the center of State Road No. 1709 (The Rock Barn Road); thence running with the center of said road in a generally northeasterly direction 1552 feet, more or less, to the point of Beginning, containing 617 acres, more or less.
Sec. 2.  If any of the area described in Section 1 of this act is annexed under Parts 1 or 4 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, that annexed area shall not be considered part of the described area for the purpose of Section 1 of this act.
Sec. 3.  This act shall not be construed to grant any additional authority for any municipality to annex any of the territory described in Section 1 of this act.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of March, 1989.