Title: H728 [Edition 1]
Category: Introduced Bill 2003

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA	SESSION 2003

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2003
H	1
HOUSE BILL 728

Short Title:	Thomasville Satellite Annexation. | (Local)
Sponsors: | Representative Holliman.
Referred to: | Finance.
March 27, 2003

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT EXTENDING the power of the city of thomasville to make a voluntary satellite annexation.
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 five 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 either as set forth in subsection (b2) of this  section or if the other city consents by annexation to the ordinance, and a copy of the ordinance is attached to the petition at the time of its submission to the city.
(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."
SECTION 2.  This act applies to the City of Thomasville only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

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