NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 478

HOUSE BILL 1045

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 160A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO ANNEXATION BY MUNICIPALITIES IN PAMLICO COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 160A-44 is hereby amended by adding a new sentence at the end of the first paragraph to read:

"No territory in Pamlico County may be annexed under the provisions of this Part by any town or city with a population of 1,000 or less according to the most recent federal decennial census."

Sec. 2. G.S. 160A-25 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph.

"No territory in Pamlico County may be annexed under the provisions of G.S. 160A-24 through G.S. 160A-30 by any town or city with a population of 1,000 or less, according to the most recent federal decennial census, unless the persons living in the area to be annexed vote in favor of annexation and the governing body shall not adopt an annexation ordinance until after a favorable vote has been obtained in the area to be annexed."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 160A-360 is amended by adding a new subsection (k) at the end thereof to read:

"(k)      No town or city in Pamlico County having a population of 1,000 or less, according to the most recent federal decennial census, shall exercise any extraterritorial jurisdiction or powers outside its corporate limits pursuant to the provisions of this Article."

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of June, 1977.