GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2003
SESSION LAW 2004-57
HOUSE BILL 1385
AN ACT to remove the cap on satellite annexations for various municipalities.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 160A-58.1(b)(5) reads as rewritten:
"(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, Gastonia, Locust, Mount Holly, Newton,
Randleman, Sanford, Salisbury, and Southport, and Washington and
the Towns of Bladenboro, Catawba, Creswell, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Holly
Ridge, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Leland, Maiden, Mayodan, Midland, Morrisville,
Pine Level, Ranlo, Rolesville, Swansboro, and Warsaw.Wallace,
Warsaw, Wendell, and Zebulon."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of July, 2004.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ Richard T. Morgan
Speaker of the House of Representatives