NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 48

HOUSE BILL 214

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF HAMLET TO LEASE FOR 99 YEARS TO HAMLET LIONS CLUB A CERTAIN LOT OF LAND LYING ON EAST HAMLET AVENUE OR U.S. HIGHWAY NO. 74 EAST, FOR CIVIC PURPOSES AND ACTIVITIES, WITH REVERTER CLAUSE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The City of Hamlet is hereby authorized and empowered to lease for 99 years to Hamlet Lions Club a certain lot of land located on East Hamlet Avenue or U.S. Highway No. 74 East, in Marks Creek Township, Richmond County, North Carolina, which lot is described as follows:

All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in the city limits of Hamlet and bounded as follows: on the north by Marks Creek, on the west by the Seaboard Coastline tracks and right-of-way, on the south by N.C. Highway No. 38, and on the east by Hamlet Avenue; and known now or formerly as "The Fairgrounds" and "Old Ball Park", upon which land is located several buildings owned by the Hamlet Lions Club, and being more particularly described as follows:

BEGINNING at a stake at the intersection of the run of Marks Creek and Hamlet Avenue and running thence about 150 feet in a southwesterly direction to a stake in the intersection of Hamlet Avenue and N.C. Highway No. 38; thence in a southerly direction as and with N.C. Highway No. 38 about 1050 feet to a stake in the edge of the Seaboard Coastline right-of-way; thence as and with the SCL right-of-way in a northwesterly direction about 975 feet to a stake in the run of Marks Creek; thence in a northeasterly direction up the run of Marks Creek 1020 feet to the beginning.

Sec. 2.  Upon approval by the City Council of the City of Hamlet, the Mayor and the City Clerk of the City of Hamlet are authorized and empowered to execute a lease for 99 years to said Hamlet Lions Club, but such lease shall carry a provision that if said Hamlet Lions Club shall fail to use the property for civic purposes and activities, or for similar use or recreational purposes, then the title to this property shall revert to the City of Hamlet and any lease executed under this act shall carry provisions to this effect.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of March, 1977.