GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2003
SESSION LAW 2003-321
SENATE BILL 452
AN ACT concerning satellite annexations by municipalities in union county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 160A-58(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1)
"City" means any city, town, or village without regard to population.
population, except cities not qualified to receive gasoline tax allocations
under G.S. 136-41.2."
SECTION 2. 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 two
miles from the primary corporate limits of the annexing city. city
or must be contiguous to the satellite 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.section
and except that this subdivision does not apply if the area proposed for
annexation is contiguous to the satellite corporate limits.
(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%)twenty
percent (20%) 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."
SECTION 3. This act applies in Union County only.
SECTION 4. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 2003.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Richard T. Morgan
Speaker of the House of Representatives