AN ACT removing certain restrictions on satellite annexations for THE TOWN OF FRANKLIN AND THE CITY OF ARCHDALE AND TO REMOVE CERTAIN DESCRIBED PROPERTY FROM THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF MURPHY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.(a)  G.S. 160A‑58.1(b)(4) is repealed.
SECTION 1.(b)  This section applies to the Town of Franklin and the City of Archdale only.
SECTION 2.(a)  G.S. 160A‑58.1(b)(5) reads as rewritten:
"§ 160A‑58.1.  Petition for annexation; standards.
(b)	A noncontiguous area proposed for annexation must meet all of the following standards:
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(5)	The area within the proposed satellite corporate limits, when added to the area within all other satellite corporate limits, may not exceed ten percent (10%) of the area within the primary corporate limits of the annexing city.
	This subdivision does not apply to the Cities of Belmont, Claremont, Concord, Conover, Durham, Elizabeth City, Gastonia, Greenville, Hickory, Kannapolis, Locust, Marion, Mount Airy, Mount Holly, New Bern, Newton, Oxford, Randleman, Roanoke Rapids, Rockingham, Sanford, Salisbury, Southport, Statesville, and Washington and the Towns of Ahoskie, Angier, Apex, Ayden, Benson, Bladenboro, Bridgeton, Burgaw, Calabash, Catawba, Clayton, Columbia, Columbus, Cramerton, Creswell, Dallas, Dobson, Four Oaks, Franklin, Fuquay‑Varina, Garner, Godwin, Granite Quarry, Green Level, Grimesland, Harrisburg, Holly Ridge, Holly Springs, Hookerton, Huntersville, Jamestown, Kenansville, Kenly, Knightdale, Landis, Leland, Lillington, Louisburg, Maggie Valley, Maiden, Mayodan, Maysville, Middlesex, Midland, Mocksville, Morrisville, Mount Pleasant, Nashville, Oak Island, Ocean Isle Beach, Pembroke, Pine Level, Princeton, Ranlo, Richlands, Rolesville, Rutherfordton, Shallotte, Smithfield, Spencer, Stem, Stovall, Surf City, Swansboro, Taylorsville, Troutman, Troy, Wallace, Warsaw, Watha, Waynesville, Weldon, Wendell, Windsor, Yadkinville, and Zebulon."
SECTION 2.(b)  This section applies to the Town of Franklin only.
SECTION 3.(a)  The following described property is removed from the corporate limits of the Town of Murphy:
All that certain tract or parcel of land containing 41,817.60 square feet, more or less, designated as Lot 2 of Lover's Leap Properties, Murphy Township, Cherokee County, North Carolina and being more particularly described according to a plat of survey dated June 26, 1991, revised November 30, 1993, by Donald L. Cordell, R.L.S. and from said plat described as follows:
BEGINNING on a 1/2" rebar set in the North boundary line of the herein described lot, said beginning corner being situate South 24 deg 37' West 251.38 feet from a 4X4 concrete monument designated TVA HR‑318‑6, said monument having grid coordinates (NAD 27) X‑419.715.0 and Y‑528.283.0 and runs thence from said beginning corner North 65 deg 05' East a distance of 213.68 feet to a 1/2" rebar set and North 65 deg 05' East a distance of 16.11 feet to a point; thence running with a line common to lands owned now or formerly by Davis, South 01 deg 26' West a distance of 105.38 feet to a 1/2" rebar set, South 01 deg 26' West a distance of 7.32 feet and South 24 deg 05' West a distance of 37.06 feet to a point; thence running with a line common to Lot 3, Lover's Leap, South 76 deg 02' West a distance of 69.33 feet to a 1/2" rebar set, South 76 deg 02' West a distance of 116.53 feet to a 1/2" rebar set and South 76 deg 02' West a distance of 159.05 feet to a point in the centerline of said existing access road and running with a line common to Lot 1 of Lover's Leap North 30 deg 18' West a distance of 9.68 feet, North 31 deg 54' West a distance of 57.26 feet, North 07 deg 50' West a distance of 18.11 feet and North 39 deg 56' East a distance of 11.45 feet to a point in said road centerline; thence turning and leaving said road and continuing with the line of Lot 1, North 00 deg 20' East a distance of 21.73 feet to a 1/2" rebar set; thence running with a line common to adjoining lands of Dickey North 81 deg 02' East a distance of 176.32 feet to the BEGINNING.
SECTION 3.(b)  This section has no effect upon the validity of any liens of the Town of Murphy for ad valorem taxes or special assessments outstanding before the effective date of this section. Such liens may be collected or foreclosed upon after the effective date of this section as though the property described in Section 3(a) of this act were still within the corporate limits of the Town of Murphy.
SECTION 3.(c)  This section becomes effective June 30, 2015.
SECTION 4.  Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of June, 2015.

	s/	 Daniel J. Forest
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Tim Moore
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives