GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-151
SENATE BILL 529

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ANNEXATION OF NONCONTIGUOUS AREAS BY THE TOWNS OF HOPE MILLS AND WEAVERVILLE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 160A-58.1(b)(5) reads as rewritten:
"(5)	The area within the proposed satellite corporate limits, when added to the area within all other satellite corporate limits, may not exceed twenty percent (20%) of the area within the primary corporate limits of the annexing city."
Section 2.  G.S. 160A-58.1(b)(5) reads as rewritten:
"(5)	The area within the proposed satellite corporate limits, when added to the area within all other satellite corporate limits, may not exceed twenty-three percent (23%) of the area within the primary corporate limits of the annexing city."
Section 3.  Section 1 of this act applies only to the Town of Hope Mills.
Section 4.  Section 2 of this act applies only to the Town of Weaverville.
Section 5.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 1997.
s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives