GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

 

 

SESSION LAW 2007-43

SENATE BILL 284

 

 

AN ACT allowing the city of sanford to annex by voluntary petition areas that are more than three miles from the city's primary corporate limits if the areas are contiguous to the city's satellite corporate limits, and prohibiting the city from annexing areas within chatham county.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A-58.1(b)(1) shall not apply to the City of Sanford if the area proposed for annexation is contiguous to the City's satellite corporate limits. For purposes of this act, the term "satellite corporate limits" means the corporate limits of any noncontiguous area annexed pursuant to Part 4 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes by the City of Sanford or pursuant to a local act enacted by the General Assembly authorizing or effecting noncontiguous annexations for the City of Sanford.

SECTION 2.  The City of Sanford shall not annex any areas pursuant to Part 4 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes that are located within Chatham County.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of May, 2007.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives