GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 605
HOUSE BILL 1591

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE CITY OF NEW BERN MAY NOT MAKE INVOLUNTARY ANNEXATIONS ACROSS THE TRENT RIVER, AND TO EXEMPT THAT CITY FROM LIMITATIONS ON THE TOTAL AREA OF SATELLITE ANNEXATIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The provisions of Part 3 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes do not apply to annexations by the City of New Bern of any area lying beyond the Trent River, that is, which lies south or southeast of that river.
Sec. 2.  Nothing in this act restricts the authority of the City of New Bern to make annexations under Parts 1 or 4 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.
Sec. 3.  G.S. 160A-58.1(b)(5) does not apply to the City of New Bern.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 1994.

─────────────────── 
Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

─────────────────── 
Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives