North Carolina SB 703: Hampstead Incorporation.

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

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SENATE BILL 703
Finance Committee Substitute Adopted 4/20/99

Short Title: Hampstead Incorporation. (Local)

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April 1, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF HAMPSTEAD SUBJECT TO A 2
REFERENDUM. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
Section 1. A Charter for the Town of Hampstead is enacted to read: 5
"THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF HAMPSTEAD. 6
"CHAPTER I. 7
"INCORPORATION AND CORPORATE POWERS. 8
"Section 1.1. Incorporation and Corporate Powers. The inhabitants of the Town 9
of Hampstead are a body corporate and politic under the name of the 'Town of 10
Hampstead'. Under that name they shall have all the powers, duties, rights, privileges, 11
and immunities conferred and imposed upon cities by the general law of North Carolina. 12
"CHAPTER II. 13
"CORPORATE BOUNDARIES. 14
"Section 2.1. Corporate Boundaries. Until modified in accordance with the law, the 15
corporate boundaries of the Town of Hampstead are as follows: 16
BEGINNING in Pender County at a point located in the eastern right-of-way 17
line of US 17, said point being the intersection of the southern right-of-way line of 18
Washington Acres Road (SR 1582) and the eastern right-of-way line of US 17; thence 19

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running in a westerly direction approximately 100 feet to the western right-of-way line of 1
US 17 to a point; said point being the joint property corner of Eugenia K. Dail and Terry 2
Lyle Finley and Bertha E.; thence running in a westerly direction along the boundary line 3
between said properties for a distance of 500 feet to a point, said point being the 4
intersection of the Southern and Western lines of the proposed city limits; thence turning 5
and running parallel to and 500 feet west of the western right-of-way line of US 17 for a 6
distance of approximately 5.5 miles to a point, said point being the intersection of the 7
Western and Northern lines of the proposed city limits; thence turning and running south 8
41 degrees 41 minutes 50 seconds east 500 feet to the western right-of-way line of US 17; 9
thence running on the same bearing approximately 100 feet to a point in the eastern right-10
of-way line of US 17, said point being the intersecting line of the eastern right-of-way of 11
US 17 and the northern right-of-way line of Sloop Point Loop Road (SR 1563); thence 12
running along the northern right-of-way line of Sloop Point Loop Road (SR 1563) for 13
approximately 1.6 miles to a point; said point being 90 degrees from the intersection of 14
the northern right-of-way line of Sloop Point Loop Road (SR 1563) and the northern 15
right-of-way line of Hickory Point Road (SR 1607); thence running in an eastern 16
direction along the northern right-of-way line of Hickory Point Road approximately 0.4 17
miles to the end of said road, thence continuing on the same bearing of Hickory Point 18
Road approximately 300 feet to the western boundary of the Intracoastal Waterway, said 19
point being the intersection of the Northern and Eastern lines of the proposed city limits; 20
thence turning and running in a southerly direction along the ICW for approximately 5.6 21
miles to a point located at the intersection of the ICW and a line extended on the same 22
bearing from the southern right-of-way line of Washington Acres Road (SR 1582), said 23
point being the intersection of the Eastern and Southern lines of the proposed city limits; 24
thence turning and running in a northwesterly direction, at the same bearing as the 25
southern right-of-way line of Washington Acres Road (SR 1582), for approximately 450 26
feet to the most eastern end of said road; thence continuing along the southern right-of-27
way line of Washington Acres Road (SR 1582) approximately 1.8 miles to the point of 28
beginning. 29
"CHAPTER III. 30
"GOVERNING BODY. 31
"Section 3.1. Structure of the Governing Body; Number of Members. The 32
governing body of the Town of Hampstead shall be the Town Council, which shall have 33
five members. 34
"Section 3.2. Manner of Election of the Council. Except for the temporary officers 35
provided for in Section 3.3 of this Charter, the members of the Town Council shall be 36
elected to two-year terms and shall be elected at large by all the qualified voters of the 37
Town. 38
"Section 3.3. Temporary Officers. Until the regular municipal election in 39
November, 1999, Elaine Myers, Billie Oliver, Rose Schenker, Charles Jones, and Charles 40
Watson shall serve on the Town Council for the Town of Hampstead and they shall 41
possess and may exercise the powers granted to the Town Council until their successors 42
are elected and qualified. 43

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"Section 3.4. Election of Ma