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Official Survey Base.
§ 102‑1. Name anddescription.
The official survey base forthe State of North Carolina shall be a system of plane coordinates to be knownas the "North Carolina Coordinate System," said system being definedas a Lambert conformal projection of Clarke's spheroid of 1866, having acentral meridian of 79º- 00' west from Greenwich and standard parallels oflatitude of 34º- 20' and 36º-10' north of the equator, along which parallelsthe scale shall be exact. All coordinates of the system are expressed in feet,the x coordinate being measured easterly along the grid and the y coordinatebeing measured northerly along the grid. The origin of the coordinates ishereby established on the meridian 79º- 00' west from Greenwich at theintersection of the parallels 33º- 45' north latitude, such origin being giventhe coordinates x=2,000,000 feet, y=0 feet. The precise position of said systemshall be as marked on the ground by triangulation or traverse stations ormonuments established in conformity with the standards adopted by the UnitedStates Coast and Geodetic Survey for first‑ and second‑order work,whose geodetic positions have been rigidly on the North American datum of 1927,and whose plane coordinates have been computed on the system defined. (1939,c. 163, s. 1.)
