AN ACT authorizing the town of andrews to exercise extraterritorial planning jurisdiction within a mile of the town's corporate limits with the approval of the board of commissioners of cherokee county.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A‑360 reads as rewritten:
"§ 160A‑360.  Territorial jurisdiction.
(a)	All of the powers granted by this Article may be exercised by any city within its corporate limits. In addition, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, any city may exercise these powers within a defined area extending not more than one mile beyond its limits. With the approval of the board or boards of county commissioners with jurisdiction over the area, a city of 10,000 or more population but less than 25,000 may exercise these powers over an area extending not more than two miles beyond its limits and a city of 25,000 or more population may exercise these powers over an area extending not more than three miles beyond its limits. The boundaries of the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction shall be the same for all powers conferred in this Article. No city may exercise extraterritorially any power conferred by this Article that it is not exercising within its corporate limits. In determining the population of a city for the purposes of this Article, the city council and the board of county commissioners may use the most recent annual estimate of population as certified by the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Administration.
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SECTION 2.  This act applies to the Town of Andrews only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 2016.

	s/	 Daniel J. Forest
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Tim Moore
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives