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, 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, 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