A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT adding certain described navigable waters and the unincorporated portion of the rachel carson reserve to the corporate limits of the town of beaufort and authorizing the municipalities in carteret county to regulate navigable waters within their corporate boundaries.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  The following described property is added to the corporate limits of the Town of Beaufort:
AREA #1
The waters from the most southwesterly point of the Town's existing extraterritorial jurisdiction boundary, following the extraterritorial jurisdiction boundary northeasterly around Pivers Island, through Bulkhead Channel (Range 6), then continuing to follow the extraterritorial jurisdiction boundary northwesterly to the point where parcel number 730601053225000 meets parcel number 730601267487000.
AREA #2
Beginning at the point where the Town's existing corporate boundary in Taylors Creek meets the Town's existing extraterritorial jurisdiction boundary, then following the extraterritorial jurisdiction boundary eastward through Taylors Creek to its mouth, then turning southwesterly at the point where the extraterritorial jurisdiction boundary turns north, arching around the east end of Carrot Island, and connecting with the most southeasterly point of the Town's existing corporate boundary.
SECTION 1.(b)  The property described in Section 1(a) of this act is navigable waters and other property (unincorporated portion of the Rachel Carson Reserve) belonging to the State of North Carolina, and therefore is exempt from taxation by the Town of Beaufort as provided in G.S. 105‑278.1.
SECTION 2.  In addition to the Town of Beaufort, the provisions of Chapter 710 of the 1981 Session Laws shall also apply to the Towns of Atlantic Beach, Bogue, Cape Carteret, Cedar Point, Emerald Isle, Indian Beach, Morehead City, Newport, Peletier, and Pine Knoll Shores.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.