A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning voluntary satellite annexation by 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, Newton, Sanford, Salisbury, and Southport, and the Towns of Apex, Bladenboro, Catawba, Fuquay‑Varina, Garner, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Leland, Maiden, Midland, Morrisville, Pine Level, Ranlo, Rolesville, Swansboro, Wallace, Warsaw, Wendell, and Zebulon."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.