NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 572

HOUSE BILL 759

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF PAMLICO COUNTY TO EXECUTE A DEED FOR THE FLORENCE WHITE SCHOOL SITE TO THE FLORENCE CAMP NO. 449 OF THE WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.

 

WHEREAS, the Board of Education of Pamlico County conveyed the Florence White School site to the Florence Camp No. 449 of the Woodmen of the World by deed dated February 5, 1958, and recorded in Book 122 at page 567 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Pamlico County, and this deed was executed pursuant to Chapter 94 of the Session Laws of 1957; and

WHEREAS, said deed, made pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Education of Pamlico County and said Local Act, contained a provision that said land was conveyed in trust, to be maintained as a community building, with a proviso or condition that if said property should not be maintained as a community building, then title thereto would revert to the Board of Education of Pamlico County; and

WHEREAS, this condition in said deed prohibits and prevents the said Florence Camp No. 449 of the Woodmen of the World from obtaining loans to improve and remodel the old building on said land, which is in a bad state of repair, and, further, it is to the best interest of said community that said building be renovated and improved: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That notwithstanding the provisions of G. S. 115-126, as amended, the Board of Education of Pamlico County, in view of the considerations expressed in the preamble to this Act, is hereby authorized and empowered to convey by good and sufficient deed to the Florence Camp No. 449 of the Woodmen of the World, or to the Camp's officers or trustees, as may be considered proper, that parcel or lot of land previously conveyed to the Board of Education of Pamlico County by deed dated September 1, 1911, and recorded in Book 56, page 343, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Pamlico County, and also described in deed dated February 5, 1958, and recorded in Book 122, at page 567, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Pamlico County, and the same being the Florence White School lot conveyed to Pamlico County Board of Education by James Broadwaters and wife. The said deed from the Board of Education of Pamlico County conveying said lot of land to the Florence Camp No. 449 of the Woodmen of the World shall be a fee simple deed and shall not contain any reverter clause or any clause relating to a possibility of reverter upon a condition subsequent, or any other reverter or reversion clause whatsoever, and the Board of Education of Pamlico County is authorized and empowered to include in the deed hereby authorized a clause which shall rescind or nullify the reverter clause expressed in the previous deed.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1967.