GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1997 SESSION

 

 

S.L. 1997-185

HOUSE BILL 604

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE TOWNS OF MOREHEAD CITY AND NEWPORT TO EXERCISE EXTRATERRITORIAL PLANNING JURISDICTION OVER AN AREA EXTENDING NOT MORE THAN TWO MILES FROM THEIR CORPORATE LIMITS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Towns of Morehead City and Newport may exercise extraterritorial planning jurisdiction as provided in Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes within an area extending not more than two miles beyond their respective corporate limits. In the area where the Towns' extraterritorial planning jurisdiction overlaps, the dividing line shall begin where the run of Hull Swamp Creek empties into the Newport River, and then runs with the run of Hull Swamp Creek to the northwest corner of the property of Merritt-Williams Ford in the southern right-of-way margin of U.S. Highway 70, thence northwestwardly with the southern margin of U.S. Highway 70 to the northwesternmost corner of the property of Paul Wysocki (tax parcel number 634608990762), and thence with the Wysocki northwest line in a southwestern direction to the North property line of Mamie Murdoch (tax parcel number 634704708233), and thence westwardly and southwardly with the north and West lines of the Murdoch property back to the run of Hull Swamp Creek.

Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 1997.

s/   Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

s/   Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives