GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SECOND EXTRA SESSION 1996

CHAPTER 3
HOUSE BILL 4

AN ACT EXTENDING RIGHTS TO PETITION FOR VOLUNTARY NONCONTIGUOUS ANNEXATION INTO THE CITY OF HENDERSON.

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, unless the other city consents to the same by 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."
Sec. 2.  This act applies to the City of Henderson only.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of July, 1996.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives