GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 382
HOUSE BILL 482

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITY OF NEW BERN AND THE TOWN OF TRENT WOODS TO APPROVE CERTAIN SATELLITE ANNEXATIONS.

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 three 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, unless that other city consents to the annexation by ordinance adopted prior to the adoption of the annexation ordinance.  Such consent ordinance shall expire one year after its adoption unless the annexation ordinance is adopted prior to the expiration.
(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."
Sec. 2.  This act applies only to the City of New Bern and the Town of Trent Woods.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of June, 1989.