NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 237

SENATE BILL 516

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE WELDON SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT TO LEASE CERTAIN PROPERTY TO THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF HALIFAX COUNTY TO BE USED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The Weldon City School Board or the Weldon School Administrative Unit is hereby authorized and empowered to lease to the Board of Commissioners of Halifax County certain property described as follows:

"BEGINNING at a point South of the school buildings at the Weldon High School site, which said point is in the Western line of Sco-Co Park Subdivision, thence South 42-52' West 75 feet, thence South 8-18' West 206.3 feet, thence South 64-35' East 105.3 feet, thence South 64-35' East 105.3 feet, thence South 67-18' East 117 feet, thence South 31-25' West 158.1 feet, thence South 39-42' West 195.8 feet, thence South 44-09' West 173.2 feet, thence North 38-11' West 508.4 feet, thence North 77-46' West 138.8 feet, thence North 04-48' West 405.1 feet, thence North 89-East 622.5 feet to the point of beginning. Containing 8.2 acres, more or less."

Sec. 2. The Weldon City School Board or the Weldon School Administrative Unit is authorized and empowered to enter into said lease agreement with the Board of Commissioners of Halifax County upon such terms and conditions as the party shall agree upon, including such provisions, if any, as to the termination or forfeiture of the lease and to exercise all such power and authority as may be necessary to complete said lease agreement, including the power and authority to enter into agreements of change or modification after the said lease has been executed.

Sec. 3. The said lease shall recite a consideration of one dollar ($1.00) and a further consideration of the public use and benefits that will accrue in using the leased property and shall be for a period not in excess of 30 years.

Sec. 4. The said lease may be agreed upon and entered into notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 115-126 and no member of the school board, nor shall the school board as a public corporation, or subdivision of government, assume or have any legal liability for and on account of the execution of the said lease.

Sec. 5. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of April, 1973.