A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT adding certain described property to the corporate limits of the town of huntersville.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  The following described property is added to the corporate limits of the Town of Huntersville:
BEGINNING at a point of intersection of the centerlines of Westmoreland Road and Mayes Road and running in an east‑southeasterly direction in a straight line for approximately 4,810 feet to a point of intersection with the centerlines of Mayes Road and Sam Furr Road (NC 73); thence in an easterly direction following the centerline of Sam Furr Road to its intersection with the centerline of Davidson‑Concord Road (NC 73); thence in a southeasterly direction along the centerline of Davidson‑Concord Road (NC#73) for a distance of approximately 12,700 feet to the Mecklenburg‑Cabarrus County line; thence in a southerly direction along the Mecklenburg County line approximately 18,750 feet to its intersection with the northerly right‑of‑way line of Eastfield Road; thence in a westerly direction following the northerly right‑of‑way line for Eastfield Road to its intersection with the northerly right‑of‑way line of Alexanderana Road; thence in a northwesterly direction along the northerly right‑of‑way line of Alexanderana Road to its intersection with the primary corporate limits of Huntersville at the southwesterly corner of the property identified as Tax Parcel #01913105; thence continuing in a northerly direction following the primary corporate limits of Huntersville to the intersection of the centerlines of Westmoreland Road and Mayes Road herein described as the beginning point of this area.
SECTION 1.(b)  From and after the effective date of the annexation of the property described in subsection (a) of this section:
(1)	The property and the citizens in the area annexed shall be subject to all the debts, laws, ordinances, and regulations enforced within the Town and shall be entitled to the same privileges and benefits as property and citizens in other parts of the Town's primary corporate limits.
(2)	The property annexed shall receive services provided by the Town on substantially the same basis, in the same manner, and according to the same policies as the services are provided within the Town's primary corporate limits prior to the effective date of the annexation.
SECTION 1.(c)  If any of the property described in subsection (a) of this section is subject to the present‑use value appraisal as provided in G.S. 160A‑49(f1) on the effective date of the annexation, the annexation of the property shall become effective on the date and for the purposes provided in G.S. 160A‑49(f2).  However, the Town may enter into interlocal agreements with Mecklenburg County, on terms agreed to by both the Town and the County, for the Town's police department to provide protection services to the property subject to present‑use value appraisal.
SECTION 1.(d)  To the extent that any of the property described in subsection (a) of this section includes property that is within the Town's satellite corporate limits as provided in Part 4 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, that property shall, upon the effective date of the annexation of the property, become a part of the Town's primary corporate limits.
SECTION 2.  Nothing in this act shall be as interpreted as preventing the owners of any property described in subsection (a) of this section from voluntarily seeking annexation of their property by the Town pursuant to G.S. 160A‑31 or Part 4 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes prior to the effective date of the annexation of the property described in subsection (a) of this section. The voluntary annexation of any of the property described in subsection (a) of this section shall not have any effect on the annexation of the remaining property described in subsection (a) of this section, which shall be conducted as provided in this act.
SECTION 3.  Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as annexing any of the land described as the "McGuire Nuclear Station Property" in S.L. 1997‑266.
SECTION 4.  The Mayor of the Town shall cause an accurate map of the property described in subsection (a) of this section to be recorded in the Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds Office following the effective date of the annexation of the property, but the Mayor shall not be required to file an ordinance notwithstanding the requirements of G.S. 160A‑51.
SECTION 5.  Section 1 of this act becomes effective July 1, 2008. The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law.