GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
SESSION LAW 2002-19
SENATE BILL 1288
AN ACT allowing the town of bethel to extend its extraterritorial jurisdiction over an area extending two miles beyond its limits subject to the approval of the pitt county board of commissioners.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding G.S. 160A-360, the Town of Bethel may exercise the extraterritorial jurisdiction powers granted by Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes within a defined area extending not more than two miles beyond the corporate limits, provided that the Pitt County Board of Commissioners shall have final approval authority of any extraterritorial jurisdiction beyond one mile.
SECTION 2. This act applies to the Town of Bethel and to Pitt County only.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 2002.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives