AN ACT to allow the town of river bend to annex and exercise Extraterritorial Jurisdiction as provided under general law.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section VI of the Charter of the Town of River Bend, being that Charter approved by the Municipal Board of Control and filed with the Secretary of State on January 14, 1981, as enacted by Chapter 26 of the Session Laws of 1987, and as rewritten by Section 1 of S.L. 1997‑363, is repealed.
SECTION 2.  This act does not invalidate any action taken by the Town of River Bend under subsection (c) of Section VI of the Charter of the Town of River Bend before the effective date of the repeal of Section VI of the Charter, as enacted by Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding Part 2 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, the Town of River Bend shall not involuntarily annex any of the areas described below:
(a)	All of Hidden Oaks Subdivision, as recorded in Plat Cabinet D, Slide 455 in the Craven County Registry.
(b)	All of the Governors Mill Subdivision, as recorded in Plat Cabinet D, Slides 776 and 776‑A in the Craven County Registry.
(c)	All of the Deerfield Subdivision, as recorded in Plat Cabinet D, Slides 718 and 777, Plat Cabinet F, Slides 282, 283, 321, and 333, and Plat Cabinet F, Slides 165‑G and 165‑H in the Craven County Registry.
(d)	All that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situated in Number Eight Township, Craven County, North Carolina, near River Bend Plantation and being more particularly described as follows:  Beginning at a point which lies the following courses and distances from the southeastern corner in the northern right-of-way line of U.S. Highway No. 17 of the property of (now or formerly) Miles A. Minges and Forrest E. Minges, Jr.; North 21 degrees 32 minutes West 276.7 feet and North 61 degrees 55 minutes West 1,457.5 feet. Said point of beginning lies in the western line of the property belonging (now or formerly) to Marshburn. Thence from this point of beginning so located North 87 degrees 31 minutes West 2,883.14 feet to a point; thence North 2 degrees 40 minutes West 700 feet to a point; thence South 87 degrees 31 minutes East 1,485 feet to a point in the eastern line of the property (now or formerly) of Miles A. Minges and Forrest E. Minges, Jr., said point being in the western line of the property belonging (now or formerly) to Marshburn; thence along and with the Marshburn line South 61 degrees 55 minutes East 1,620 feet to the point of beginning.
(e)	All area within three hundred feet (300') of the northern right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 17, between the Craven County‑Jones County line and the western right-of-way line of Shoreline Drive.
(f)	All area within three hundred feet (300') of the northern right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 17, between the Craven County - Jones  County line and the western right-of-way line of East Church Street.

SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of August, 2007.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives