AN ACT authorizing the city of roanoke rapids to convey certain property at a private sale.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding Article 12 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, the City of Roanoke Rapids may convey by private negotiation and sale, with or without monetary consideration, any or all of its right, title, and interest in the following described property under the terms and conditions that the City Council deems appropriate:
Old Police Station: Lots Nos. 630, 632, 634, 636, 638 and the northern ten (10) feet of Lot No. 640, each of said lots having a frontage of twenty‑five (25) feet on the east side of Roanoke Avenue and extending back between parallel lines 140 feet to an alley; all of which are shown on map of the property of the Roanoke Rapids Power Company, Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, made by C. F. Gore and Company, Engineers, of Weldon, North Carolina, December 18, 1915, and of record in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Halifax County, North Carolina, in Plat Book 1, at pages Nos. 11, 12, 13 and 14, a reference to which is hereby expressly made for a more accurate description.
Vacant Lot on Becker Drive: All that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situate in the City of Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County, North Carolina, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe in the eastern right of way of Becker Drive, said iron pipe being the southwest corner of lands owned by the Roanoke Rapids Housing Authority; thence along the southern line of said Housing Authority property, N. 67° 55' E. 250 feet to an iron pipe; thence S. 1° 03' E. 154.5 feet to an iron pipe in the northern margin of a cul‑de‑sac to be named Wicker Court; thence along said cul‑de‑sac a curve to the left, a distance of 86.2 feet to an iron pipe; thence S. 80° 10' W. 146.5 feet to an iron pipe in the Eastern margin of Becker Drive, thence along the Eastern margin of Becker Drive, N. 16° 10' W. 150 feet to the point of beginning, containing 36,528 sq. feet or .839 acre, more or less, and being the identical real property as shown and designated on that "Plat Showing Property Conveyed to The City of Roanoke Rapids, by Becker Farms, Inc., Roanoke Rapids T.P., Halifax Co., N. C.," dated July 12, 1981, prepared by Cyril C. Waters, Registered Surveyor; reference to said map and deed being hereby made for greater certainty of description.
Fire Department Sleeping Quarters & Offices: Those three (3) certain lots, together with all improvements thereon, in the City of Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County, North Carolina, each fronting 25 feet on the Eastern side of Roanoke Avenue and running back between parallel lines 140 feet to an alley, and being shown and designated as Lots Nos. six hundred twenty‑four (624), six hundred twenty‑six (626), and six hundred twenty‑eight (628) on that certain map of record in the office of the Register of Deeds for said Halifax County, in Plat Book 1 at pages 11, 12, 13 and 14; the same being the identical real property conveyed unto the said M. S. Benton, as Trustee for The Planters National Bank & Trust Company, by deed of M. R. Bradley, et ux, dated September 27, 1963, recorded in Book 680 at page 570, Halifax Public Registry; reference to said map and deed being hereby made for greater certainty of description.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of May, 2003.

	s/	 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 Richard T. Morgan
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives