GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2003

SESSION LAW 2003-204

HOUSE BILL 774

AN ACT concerning satellite annexations by the Town of beaufort.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A-58.1(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      A noncontiguous area proposed for annexation must meet all of the following standards:

(1) The nearest point on the proposed satellite corporate limits must be not more than three miles from the primary corporate limits of the annexing city.

(2) No point on the proposed satellite corporate limits may be closer to the primary corporate limits of another city than to the primary corporate limits of the annexing city, except as set forth in subsection (b2) of this section.

(3)       The area must be so situated that the annexing city will be able to provide the same services within the proposed satellite corporate limits that it provides within its primary corporate limits.

(4)       If the area proposed for annexation, or any portion thereof, is a subdivision as defined in G.S. 160A-376, all of the subdivision must be included.

(5) The area within the proposed satellite corporate limits, when added to the area within all other satellite corporate limits, may not exceed ten percent (10%) of the area within the primary corporate limits of the annexing city.

This subdivision does not apply to the Cities of Claremont, Concord, Conover, Newton, Sanford, Salisbury, and Southport, and the Towns of Catawba, Maiden, Midland, Swansboro, and Warsaw.

(6) The area must be east of a line that runs from the confluence of Taylor's Creek and Gallant's Channel northwardly with Gallant's Channel to Town Creek, then northwestwardly from Town Creek to the Intracoastal Waterway in Newport River, then northwardly with the Intracoastal Waterway to a point where an extension of SR 1162 would intersect the Waterway of the Intracoastal Waterway, and Beaufort municipal sewer must be available within the area."

SECTION 2.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit or be limited by any provisions of Chapter 432 of the 1997 Session Laws or any other existing laws or ordinances.

SECTION 3.  This act applies to the Town of Beaufort only.

SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17^th day of June, 2003.

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives