GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1046

Short Title:  Deletions from State Parks Preserve.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Speed, Plyler, Lucas, Sherron, Ballance, and Allran.

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Referred to:  Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources

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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REMOVE CERTAIN PROPERTY FROM THE STATE NATURE AND HISTORIC PRESERVE AND TO AUTHORIZE THE DELETION OF VARIOUS PROPERTIES FROM THE STATE PARKS SYSTEM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Article 25B of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes is amended by adding the following new section to read:
"§ 143-260.10G.  Removal of land in Crowders Mountain State Park from the State Nature and Historic Preserve.
(a)	Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 143-260.10(6), the portion of that certain tract or parcel of property at Crowders Mountain State Park in Gaston County, Crowders Mountain Township, described in Deed Book 1240, Page 451, and containing 225 square feet and as shown in a survey by R&W Engineering and Surveying entitled 'Conveyance of 0.0052 acres owned by Crowders Mountain State Park, Gaston Co., NC' and dated January 18, 1995, is removed from the State Nature and Historic Preserve.
(b)	The property described in subsection (a) of the section is deleted from the State Parks System pursuant to G.S. 113-44.14.
(c)	The State may only exchange this property for other property for the expansion of Crowders Mountain State Park or sell this land and use the proceeds for that purpose.  The State shall not otherwise sell or exchange this land."
Sec. 2.  Pursuant to G.S. 113-44.14, the General Assembly authorizes the deletion of the following properties from the State Parks System:
(1)	The 73-acre tract identified as a portion of the property legally described in the Department of the Army Lease for Recreation Development at the Townsville Landing Public Use Area at John H. Kerr Dam and Reservoir, Contract No. 54-75-C-0026, Lease No. DACW21-1-1815, Supplemental Agreement No. 2, as shown on Exhibits A-2 and B-1, Plate 7-18, to Supplemental Agreement No. 2 and further identified by name as Flemingtown Road Marina as shown in the Master Plan of John H. Kerr Dam and Reservoir, may be deleted from the lease.
	Authorization for the removal from the Department of the Army lease of the portion of Kerr Lake State Recreation Area described under this section achieves the requirements and purposes of Article 2C of Chapter 113 of the General Statutes.
(2)	The portion of that certain tract or parcel of property at Hanging Rock State Park in Stokes County, Danbury Township, described in Deed Book 360, Page 160, that is a 30-foot wide right-of-way beginning approximately 183 feet south of S.R. 1001 and extending in a southerly direction approximately 1,479 feet may be deleted from the State Parks System.  Said property is shown on a survey titled, "J. Spot Taylor Heirs, Danbury Township, Stokes County, N.C.," by Grinski Surveying Company, June 1985, as extending from the southwest corner of the James Robert Speir tract to the southwest corner of the Bobby Joe Lankford tract.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.