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2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 159G - Water Infrastructure › Article 2 - Water Infrastructure Loans and Grants Administered by Department. › § 159G-43 - Inspection of project.

§ 159G-43. Inspection of project.
(a) Authority. – The Department may inspect a project for which it awards a loan or grant under this Article to determine the progress made on the project and whether the construction of the project is consistent with the project described in the loan or grant application. The inspection may be performed by personnel of the Department or by a professional engineer licensed under Chapter 89C of the General Statutes.
(b) Disqualification. – An individual may not perform an inspection of a project under this section if the individual meets any of the following criteria:
(1) Is an officer or employee of the local government unit, nonprofit water corporation, or investor-owned drinking water corporation that received the loan or grant award for the project.
(2) Is an owner, officer, employee, or agent of a contractor or subcontractor engaged in the construction of the project for which the loan or grant was made. (2005-454, s. 3; 2011-145, s. 13.11A(d).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 159G - Water Infrastructure › Article 2 - Water Infrastructure Loans and Grants Administered by Department. › § 159G-44 - Rules.

§ 159G-44. Rules.
The Department may adopt rules to implement this Chapter. Chapter 150B of the General Statutes, the Administrative Procedure Act, governs the adoption of rules by the Department. A rule adopted to administer a loan or grant from the CWSRF or the DWSRF must be consistent with federal law. The Department must give a copy of the rules adopted to implement this Article without charge to a person who requests a copy. (2005-454, s. 3.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 159G - Water Infrastructure › Article 5 - State Water Infrastructure Authority. › § 159G-71 - State Water Infrastructure Authority; powers and duties.

§ 159G-71. State Water Infrastructure Authority; powers and duties.
The Authority has the following additional duties:
(1) After reviewing the recommendations for grants and loans submitted to it by the Division, to determine the rank of applications and to select the applications that are eligible to receive grants and loans, consistent with federal law.
(2) To establish priorities for making loans and grants under this Chapter, consistent with federal law.
(3) To review the criteria for making loans and grants under G.S. 159G-23 and make recommendations, if any, to the Department for additional criteria or changes to the criteria, consistent with federal law.
(4) To develop guidelines for making loans and grants under this Chapter, consistent with federal law.
(5) To develop a master plan to meet the State's water infrastructure needs.
(6) To assess and make recommendations on the role of the State in the development and funding of wastewater, drinking water, and stormwater infrastructure in the State.
(7) To analyze the adequacy of projected funding to meet projected needs over the next five years.
(8) To make recommendations on ways to maximize the use of current funding resources, whether federal, State, or local, and to ensure that funds are used in a coordinated manner.
(9) To review the application of management practices in wastewater, drinking water, and stormwater utilities and to determine the best practices.
(10) To assess the role of public-private partnerships in the future provision of utility service.
(11) To assess the application of the river basin approach to utility planning and management.
(12) To assess the need for a "troubled system" protocol. (2013-360, s. 14.21(b).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 159G - Water Infrastructure › Article 5 - State Water Infrastructure Authority. › § 159G-72 - State Water Infrastructure Authority; reports.

§ 159G-72. State Water Infrastructure Authority; reports.
No later than November 1 of each year, the Authority shall submit a report of its activity and findings, including any recommendations or legislative proposals, to the Environmental Review Commission, the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources, and the Fiscal Research Division with the report required by G.S. 159G-26(a) as a single report. (2013-360, s. 14.21(b); 2017-10, s. 4.17(b).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 159I - Solid Waste Management Loan Program and Local Government Special Obligation Bonds › §§ 159I-30: Reenacted, recodified and rewritten as G.S. 159-146 by Session Laws 2020-3, s. 4.30(a), effective retroactively to July 1, 2019.

§ 159I-30: Reenacted, recodified and rewritten as G.S. 159-146 by Session Laws 2020-3, s. 4.30(a), effective retroactively to July 1, 2019.
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 1 - Definitions and Statutory Construction. › § 160A-2 - Effect upon prior laws.

§ 160A-2. Effect upon prior laws.
Nothing in this Chapter shall repeal or amend any city charter in effect as of January 1, 1972, or any portion thereof, unless this Chapter or a subsequent enactment of the General Assembly shall clearly show a legislative intent to repeal or supersede all local acts. The provisions of this Chapter, insofar as they are the same in substance as laws in effect as of December 31, 1971, are intended to continue such laws in effect and not to be new enactments. The enactment of this Chapter shall not require the readoption of any city ordinance enacted pursuant to laws that were in effect before January 1, 1972, and are restated or revised herein. The provisions of this Chapter shall not affect any act heretofore done, any liability incurred, any right accrued or vested, or any suit or prosecution begun or cause of action accrued as of January 1, 1972. (1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 1 - Definitions and Statutory Construction. › § 160A-3 - General laws supplementary to charters.

§ 160A-3. General laws supplementary to charters.
(a) When a procedure that purports to prescribe all acts necessary for the performance or execution of any power, duty, function, privilege, or immunity is provided by both a general law and a city charter, the two procedures may be used as alternatives, and a city may elect to follow either one.
(b) When a procedure for the performance or execution of any power, duty, function, privilege, or immunity is provided by both a general law and a city charter, but the charter procedure does not purport to contain all acts necessary to carry the power, duty, function, privilege, or immunity into execution, the charter procedure shall be supplemented by the general law procedure; but in case of conflict or inconsistency between the two procedures, the charter procedure shall control.
(c) When a power, duty, function, privilege, or immunity is conferred on cities by a general law, and a charter enacted earlier than the general law omits or expressly denies or limits the same power, duty, function, privilege or immunity, the general laws shall supersede the charter. (1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 1 - Definitions and Statutory Construction. › § 160A-4 - Broad construction.

§ 160A-4. Broad construction.
It is the policy of the General Assembly that the cities of this State should have adequate authority to execute the powers, duties, privileges, and immunities conferred upon them by law. To this end, the provisions of this Chapter and of city charters shall be broadly construed and grants of power shall be construed to include any additional and supplementary powers that are reasonably necessary or expedient to carry them into execution and effect: Provided, that the exercise of such additional or supplementary powers shall not be contrary to State or federal law or to the public policy of this State. (1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 1 - Definitions and Statutory Construction. › § 160A-5 - Statutory references deemed amended to conform to Chapter.

§ 160A-5. Statutory references deemed amended to conform to Chapter.
Whenever a reference is made in another portion of the General Statutes or any local act, or any city ordinance, resolution, or order, to a portion of Chapter 160 of the General Statutes that is repealed or superseded by this Chapter, the reference shall be deemed amended to refer to that portion of this Chapter which most nearly corresponds to the repealed or superseded portion of Chapter 160. (1971, c. 698, s. 1; 1973, c. 426, s. 2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 2 - General Corporate Powers. › § 160A-11 - Corporate powers.

§ 160A-11. Corporate powers.
The inhabitants of each city heretofore or hereafter incorporated by act of the General Assembly or by the Municipal Board of Control shall be and remain a municipal corporation by the name specified in the city charter. Under that name they shall be vested with all of the property and rights in property belonging to the corporation; shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued; may contract and be contracted with; may acquire and hold any property, real and personal, devised, sold, or in any manner conveyed, dedicated to, or otherwise acquired by them, and from time to time may hold, invest, sell, or dispose of the same; may have a common seal and alter and renew the same at will; and shall have and may exercise in conformity with the city charter and the general laws of this State all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities of every name and nature whatsoever.
All documents required or permitted by law to be executed by municipal corporations will be legally valid and binding in this respect when a legible corporate stamp, which is a facsimile of its seal, is used in lieu of an imprinted or embossed corporate or common seal. (Code, ss. 704, 3117; 1901, c. 283; 1905, c. 526; Rev., s. 2916; 1907, c. 978; P.L. 1917, c. 223; C.S., s. 2623; Ex. Sess. 1921, c. 58; 1927, c. 14; 1933, c. 69; 1949, c. 938; 1955, c. 77; 1959, c. 391; 1961, c. 308; 1967, c. 100, s. 2; c. 1122, s. 1; 1969, c. 944; 1971, c. 698, s. 1; 1973, c. 170; c. 426, s. 7; 2011-284, s. 110.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 2 - General Corporate Powers. › § 160A-12 - Exercise of corporate power.

§ 160A-12. Exercise of corporate power.
All powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities of the corporation shall be exercised by the city council and carried into execution as provided by the charter or the general law. A power, function, right, privilege, or immunity that is conferred or imposed by charter or general law without directions or restrictions as to how it is to be exercised or performed shall be carried into execution as provided by ordinance or resolution of the city council. (Code, s. 703; Rev., s. 2917; C.S., s. 2624; 1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 3 - Contracts. › § 160A-16 - Contracts to be in writing; exception.

§ 160A-16. Contracts to be in writing; exception.
All contracts made by or on behalf of a city shall be in writing. A contract made in violation of this section shall be void and unenforceable unless it is expressly ratified by the council. (1917, c. 136, subch. 13, s. 8; C.S., s. 2831; 1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 3 - Contracts. › § 160A-17 - Continuing contracts.

§ 160A-17. Continuing contracts.
A city is authorized to enter into continuing contracts, some portion or all of which are to be performed in ensuing fiscal years. Sufficient funds shall be appropriated to meet any amount to be paid under the contract in the fiscal year in which it is made, and in each ensuing fiscal year, the council shall appropriate sufficient funds to meet the amounts to be paid during the fiscal year under continuing contracts previously entered into. (1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 3 - Contracts. › § 160A-17.1 - Grants from other governments.

§ 160A-17.1. Grants from other governments.
(a) Federal and State. – The governing body of any city or county is hereby authorized to make contracts for and to accept grants-in-aid and loans from the federal and State governments and their agencies for constructing, expanding, maintaining, and operating any project or facility, or performing any function, which such city or county may be authorized by general law or local act to provide or perform.
In order to exercise the authority granted by this section, the governing body of any city or county may:
(1) Enter into and carry out contracts with the State or federal government or any agency or institution thereof under which such government, agency, or institution grants financial or other assistance to the city or county;
(2) Accept such assistance or funds as may be granted or loaned by the State or federal government with or without such a contract;
(3) Agree to and comply with any lawful and reasonable conditions which are imposed upon such grants or loans;
(3a) Agree to and comply with minimum minority business enterprise participation requirements established by the federal government and its agencies in projects financed by federal grants-in-aid or loans, by including such minimum requirements in the specifications for contracts to perform all or part of such projects and awarding bids pursuant to G.S. 143-129 and 143-131, if applicable, to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders meeting these and any other specifications.
(4) Make expenditures from any funds so granted.
(b) Expired effective December 31, 2010. (1971, c. 896, s. 10; c. 937, ss. 1, 1.5; 1973, c. 426, s. 8; 1981, c. 827; 2007-91, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 3 - Contracts. › § 160A-17.2 - Security interests in United States Department of Agriculture loans.

§ 160A-17.2. Security interests in United States Department of Agriculture loans.
(a) A county or municipality may pledge a security interest in an escrow account funded with loan proceeds, or a certificate of deposit, to secure repayment of the loan, only if the loan is an interest-free loan agreement entered into with the United States Department of Agriculture or an authorized intermediary acting on behalf of the United States Department of Agriculture. Any such escrow account must be substantiated by a written escrow agreement, and the funds must be deposited in accordance with G.S. 159-30 and G.S. 159-31. Any certificate of deposit shall comply with the requirements of G.S. 159-30.
(b) An interest-free loan agreement entered into under this section is subject to approval by the Local Government Commission under Article 8 of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes, unless exempted in G.S. 159-148(b).
(c) No deficiency judgment may be rendered against any county or municipality in any action for breach of a contractual obligation authorized by this section. The taxing power of a county or municipality is not and may not be pledged directly or indirectly to secure any moneys due under a contract authorized by this section. (2015-207, s. 3.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 3 - Contracts. › § 160A-18 - Certain deeds validated.

§ 160A-18. Certain deeds validated.
(a) All deeds made, executed, and delivered by any city before July 1, 1970, for a good and valuable consideration are hereby in all respects validated, ratified, and confirmed notwithstanding any lack of authority to make the deed or any irregularities in the procedures by which conveyance of the land or premises described therein was authorized by the city council.
(b) All conveyances and sales of any interest in real property by private sale, including conveyances in fee and releases of vested or contingent future interests, made by the governing body of any city, school district, or school administrative unit before July 1, 1970, are hereby validated, ratified, and confirmed notwithstanding the fact that such conveyances or releases were made by private sale and not after notice and public outcry.
(b1) All conveyances of any interest in real property by private sale, including conveyance in fee, made by the governing body of any county before January 1, 1977, are hereby validated, ratified, and confirmed notwithstanding the fact that such conveyances were made by private sale, without advertisement, and not after notice and public outcry.
(c) Nothing in this section shall affect any action or proceeding begun before January 1, 1977. (Ex. Sess. 1924, c. 95; 1951, c. 44; 1959, c. 487; 1971, c. 698, s. 1; 1977, c. 1103.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 3 - Contracts. › § 160A-19 - Leases.

§ 160A-19. Leases.
A city is authorized to lease as lessee, with or without option to purchase, any real or personal property for any authorized public purpose. A lease of personal property with an option to purchase is subject to Article 8 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes. (1973, c. 426, s. 9.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 3 - Contracts. › § 160A-20.1 - Contracts with private entities; contractors must use E-Verify.

§ 160A-20.1. Contracts with private entities; contractors must use E-Verify.
(a) Authority. – A city may contract with and appropriate money to any person, association, or corporation, in order to carry out any public purpose that the city is authorized by law to engage in. A city may not require a private contractor under this section to abide by any restriction that the city could not impose on all employers in the city, such as paying minimum wage or providing paid sick leave to its employees, as a condition of bidding on a contract.
(b) Repealed by Session Laws 2015-294, s. 1(b), effective October 1, 2015, and applicable to contracts entered into on or after that date. (1985, c. 271, s. 1; 2013-413, s. 5(d); 2013-418, s. 2(b); 2014-119, s. 13(a); 2015-294, s. 1(b); 2016-3, 2nd Ex. Sess., s. 2.3; 2017-4, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4 - Corporate Limits. › § 160A-21 - Existing boundaries.

§ 160A-21. Existing boundaries.
The boundaries of each city shall be those specified in its charter with any alterations that are made from time to time in the manner provided by law or by local act of the General Assembly. (1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4 - Corporate Limits. › § 160A-22 - Map of corporate limits.

§ 160A-22. Map of corporate limits.
The current city boundaries shall at all times be drawn on a map, or set out in a written description, or shown by a combination of these techniques. This delineation shall be retained permanently in the office of the city clerk. Alterations in these established boundaries shall be indicated by appropriate entries upon or additions to the map or description made by or under the direction of the officer charged with that duty by the city charter or by the council. Copies of the map or description reproduced by any method of reproduction that gives legible and permanent copies, when certified by the city clerk, shall be admissible in evidence in all courts and shall have the same force and effect as would the original map or description. The council may provide for revisions in any map or other description of the city boundaries. A revised map or description shall supersede for all purposes the earlier map or description that it is designated to replace. (1971, c. 698, s. 1; 1973, c. 426, s. 10.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4 - Corporate Limits. › § 160A-23 - District map; reapportionment.

§ 160A-23. District map; reapportionment.
(a) If the city is divided into electoral districts for the purpose of electing the members of the council, the map or description required by G.S. 160A-22 shall also show the boundaries of the several districts.
(b) The council shall have authority to revise electoral district boundaries from time to time. If district boundaries are set out in the city charter and the charter does not provide a method for revising them, the council may revise them only for the purpose of (i) accounting for territory annexed to or excluded from the city, and (ii) correcting population imbalances among the districts shown by a new federal census or caused by exclusions or annexations. When district boundaries have been established in conformity with the federal Constitution, the council shall not be required to revise them again until a new federal census of population is taken or territory is annexed to or excluded from the city, whichever event first occurs. In establishing district boundaries, the council may use data derived from the most recent federal census and shall not be required to use any other population estimates. (1969, c. 629; 1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-29 - Map of annexed area, copy of ordinance and election results recorded in the office of register of deeds.

§ 160A-29. Map of annexed area, copy of ordinance and election results recorded in the office of register of deeds.
Whenever the limits of any municipal corporation are enlarged, in accordance with the provisions of this Article, it shall be the duty of the mayor of the city or town to cause an accurate map of such annexed territory, together with a copy of the ordinance duly certified, and the official results of the election, if conducted, to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county or counties in which such territory is situated and in the office of the Secretary of State. The documents required to be filed with the Secretary of State under this section shall be filed not later than 30 days following the effective date of the annexation ordinance. All documents shall have an identifying number affixed thereto and shall conform in size in accordance with rules prescribed by the Secretary. Failure to file within 30 days shall not affect the validity of the annexation. Any annexation shall be reported as part of the Boundary and Annexation Survey of the United States Bureau of the Census. (1947, c. 725, s. 6; 1973, c. 426, s. 74; 1987, c. 715, s. 6, c. 879, s. 3; 1989, c. 440, s. 7; 1991, c. 586, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-30 - Surveys of proposed new areas.

§ 160A-30. Surveys of proposed new areas.
The governing bodies of the cities and towns after five days' written notice to the owner of record or persons in possession of the premises are hereby authorized to enter upon any lands to make surveys or examinations as may be necessary in carrying out the mapping requirements of proposed annexations under any provision of Article 4A of Chapter 160A; provided, the city or town authorizing such entry shall make reimbursement for any damage resulting from such activity. (1947, c. 725, s. 7; 1973, c. 426, s. 74; 1975, c. 312.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-31.1 - Assumption of debt.

§ 160A-31.1. Assumption of debt.
(a) If the city has annexed under this Part any area which is served by a rural fire department and which is in:
(1) An insurance district defined under G.S. 153A-233;
(2) A rural fire protection district under Article 3A of Chapter 69 of the General Statutes; or
(3) A fire service district under Article 16 of Chapter 153A of the General Statutes,
then beginning with the effective date of annexation the city shall pay annually a proportionate share of any payments due on any debt (including principal and interest) relating to facilities or equipment of the rural fire department, if the debt was existing at the time of submission of the petition for annexation to the city under this Part. The rural fire department shall make available to the city not later than 30 days following a written request from the city, information concerning such debt. The rural fire department forfeits its rights under this section if it fails to make a good faith response within 45 days following receipt of the written request for information from the city, provided that the city's written request so states by specific reference to this section.
(b) The annual payments from the city to the rural fire department on such shared debt service shall be calculated as follows:
(1) The rural fire department shall certify to the city each year the amount that will be expended for debt service subject to be shared by the city as provided by subsection (a) of this section; and
(2) The amount determined under subdivision (1) of this subsection shall be multiplied by the percentage determined by dividing the assessed valuation of the area of the district annexed by the assessed valuation of the entire district, each such valuation to be fixed as of the date the annexation ordinance becomes effective.
(c) This section does not apply in any year as to any annexed area(s) for which the payment calculated under this section as to all annexation ordinances adopted under this Part by a city during a particular calendar year does not exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(d) The city and rural fire department shall jointly present a payment schedule to the Local Government Commission for approval and no payment may be made until such schedule is approved. The Local Government Commission shall approve a payment schedule agreed upon between the city and the rural fire department in cases where the assessed valuation of the district may not readily be determined, if there is a reasonable basis for the agreement. (1989, c. 598, s. 2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › §§ 160A-49.1: Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.57 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 2, effective July 1, 2011.

§ 160A-49.1: Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.57 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 2, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › §§ 160A-49.2: Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.58 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 3, effective July 1, 2011.

§ 160A-49.2: Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.58 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 3, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › §§ 160A-49.3: Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.59 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 4, effective July 1, 2011.

§ 160A-49.3: Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.59 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 4, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › §§ 160A-51: Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.61 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 5, effective July 1, 2011.

§ 160A-51: Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.61 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 5, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › §§ 160A-52: Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.62 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 6, effective July 1, 2011.

§ 160A-52: Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.62 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 6, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58 - Definitions.

§ 160A-58. Definitions.
The words and phrases defined in this section have the meanings indicated when used in this Part unless the context clearly requires another meaning:
(1) "City" means any city, town, or village without regard to population, except cities not qualified to receive gasoline tax allocations under G.S. 136-41.2.
(2) "Primary corporate limits" means the corporate limits of a city as defined in its charter, enlarged or diminished by subsequent annexations or exclusions of contiguous territory pursuant to Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this Article or local acts of the General Assembly.
(3) "Satellite corporate limits" means the corporate limits of a noncontiguous area annexed pursuant to this Part or a local act authorizing or effecting noncontiguous annexations. (1973, c. 1173, s. 2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.2 - Public hearing.

§ 160A-58.2. Public hearing.
Upon receipt of a petition for annexation under this Part, the city council shall cause the city clerk to investigate the petition, and to certify the results of his investigation. If the clerk certifies that upon investigation the petition appears to be valid, the council shall fix a date for a public hearing on the annexation. Notice of the hearing shall be published once at least 10 days before the date of hearing.
At the hearing, any person residing in or owning property in the area proposed for annexation and any resident of the annexing city may appear and be heard on the questions of the sufficiency of the petition and the desirability of the annexation. If the council then finds and determines that (i) the area described in the petition meets all of the standards set out in G.S. 160A-58.1(b), (ii) the petition bears the signatures of all of the owners of real property within the area proposed for annexation (except those not required to sign by G.S. 160A-58.1(a)), (iii) the petition is otherwise valid, and (iv) the public health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the city and of the area proposed for annexation will be best served by the annexation, the council may adopt an ordinance annexing the area described in the petition. The ordinance may be made effective immediately or on any specified date within six months from the date of passage. (1973, c. 1173, s. 2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.2A - Assumption of debt.

§ 160A-58.2A. Assumption of debt.
(a) If the city has annexed under this Part any area which is served by a rural fire department and which is in:
(1) An insurance district defined under G.S. 153A-233;
(2) A rural fire protection district under Article 3A of Chapter 69 of the General Statutes; or
(3) A fire service district under Article 16 of Chapter 153A of the General Statutes,
then beginning with the effective date of annexation the city shall pay annually a proportionate share of any payments due on any debt (including principal and interest) relating to facilities or equipment of the rural fire department, if the debt was existing at the time of submission of the petition for annexation to the city under this Part. The rural fire department shall make available to the city not later than 30 days following a written request from the city, information concerning such debt. The rural fire department forfeits its rights under this section if it fails to make a good faith response within 45 days following receipt of the written request for information from the city, provided that the city's written request so states by specific reference to this section.
(b) The annual payments from the city to the rural fire department on such shared debt service shall be calculated as follows:
(1) The rural fire department shall certify to the city each year the amount that will be expended for debt service subject to be shared by the city as provided by subsection (a) of this section; and
(2) The amount determined under subdivision (1) of this subsection shall be multiplied by the percentage determined by dividing the assessed valuation of the area of the district annexed by the assessed valuation of the entire district, each such valuation to be fixed as of the date the annexation ordinance becomes effective.
(c) This section does not apply in any year as to any annexed area(s) for which the payment calculated under this section as to all annexation ordinances adopted under this Part by a city during a particular calendar year does not exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(d) The city and rural fire department shall jointly present a payment schedule to the Local Government Commission for approval and no payment may be made until such schedule is approved. The Local Government Commission shall approve a payment schedule agreed upon between the city and the rural fire department in cases where the assessed valuation of the district may not readily be determined, if there is a reasonable basis for the agreement. (1989, c. 598, s. 3.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.3 - Annexed area subject to city taxes and debts.

§ 160A-58.3. Annexed area subject to city taxes and debts.
From and after the effective date of the annexation ordinance, the annexed area and its citizens and property are subject to all debts, laws, ordinances and regulations of the annexing city, and are entitled to the same privileges and benefits as other parts of the city. Real and personal property in the newly annexed territory on the January 1 immediately preceding the beginning of the fiscal year in which the annexation becomes effective is subject to municipal taxes as provided in G.S. 160A-58.10. If the effective date of annexation falls between June 1 and June 30, and the privilege licenses of the annexing city are due on June 1, then businesses in the annexed area are liable for privilege license taxes at the full-year rate. (1973, c. 1173, s. 2; 1975, c. 576, s. 5; 1977, c. 517, s. 7.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.4 - Extraterritorial powers.

§ 160A-58.4. Extraterritorial powers.
Satellite corporate limits shall not be considered a part of the city's corporate limits for the purposes of extraterritorial land-use regulation pursuant to G.S. 160D-202 or abatement of public health nuisances pursuant to G.S. 160A-193. However, a city's power to regulate land use pursuant to Chapter 160D of the General Statutes or to abate public health nuisances pursuant to G.S. 160A-193, shall be the same within satellite corporate limits as within its primary corporate limits. (1973, c. 1173, s. 2; 2022-62, s. 46.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.5 - Special rates for water, sewer and other enterprises.

§ 160A-58.5. Special rates for water, sewer and other enterprises.
For the purposes of G.S. 160A-314, provision of public enterprise services within satellite corporate limits shall be considered provision of service for special classes of service distinct from the classes of service provided within the primary corporate limits of the city, and the city may fix and enforce schedules of rents, rates, fees, charges and penalties in excess of those fixed and enforced within the primary corporate limits. A city providing enterprise services within satellite corporate limits shall annually review the cost thereof, and shall take such steps as may be necessary to insure that the current operating costs of such services, excluding debt service on bonds issued to finance services within satellite corporate limits, does not exceed revenues realized therefrom. (1973, c. 1173, s. 2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.6 - Transition from satellite to primary corporate limits.

§ 160A-58.6. Transition from satellite to primary corporate limits.
An area annexed pursuant to this Part ceases to constitute satellite corporate limits and becomes a part of the primary corporate limits of a city when, through annexation of intervening territory, the two boundaries touch. (1973, c. 1173, s. 2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.7 - Annexation of municipal property.

§ 160A-58.7. Annexation of municipal property.
(a) The city council may initiate annexation of property not contiguous to the primary corporate limits and owned by the city by adopting a resolution stating its intent to annex the property, in lieu of filing a petition. The property must satisfy the requirements of G.S. 160A-58.1. The resolution shall contain an adequate description of the property and fix a date for a public hearing on the question of annexation. Notice of the public hearing shall be published once at least 10 days before the date of the hearing. At the hearing, any resident of the city may appear and be heard on the question of the desirability of the annexation. If the council finds that annexation is in the public interest, it may adopt an ordinance annexing the property. The ordinance may be made effective immediately or on any specified date within six months from the date of passage.
(b) A city has no authority to adopt a resolution or petition itself under this Part for annexation of property it does not own or have any legal interest in. For the purpose of this subsection, a city has no legal interest in a State-maintained street unless it owns the underlying fee and not just an easement. (1987, c. 562, s. 2; 2011-57, s. 2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.8 - Recording and Reporting.

§ 160A-58.8. Recording and Reporting.
Annexations made under this part shall be recorded and reported in the same manner as under G.S. 160A-29. (1987, c. 879, s. 4.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.9 - Effective date of certain annexation ordinances adopted from January 1, 1987, to August 3, 1987.

§ 160A-58.9. Effective date of certain annexation ordinances adopted from January 1, 1987, to August 3, 1987.
(a) In the case of any annexation ordinance adopted during the period beginning January 1, 1987, and ending on August 3, 1987, if the effective date of the annexation under the ordinance is during 1988, the governing board of the municipality may, notwithstanding G.S. 160A-37(j) or G.S. 160A-49(j), amend the ordinance to provide for an effective date of December 31, 1987. The board must give notice by publication of its intent to consider adoption of such ordinance, such notice to be published at least 10 days before the meeting at which the ordinance is adopted. Copies of the adopted ordinance shall be recorded in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 160A-39 or G.S. 160A-51, as applicable.
(b) This section applies only to territory located in counties with a population of 55,000 or over, according to the 1980 decennial federal census. (1987, c. 715, s. 2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.9A - Effective date of certain annexation ordinances adopted under Article 4A of Chapter 160A.

§ 160A-58.9A. Effective date of certain annexation ordinances adopted under Article 4A of Chapter 160A.
(a) No annexation ordinance adopted under Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes may become effective during the period beginning November 1, 1989, and ending January 1, 1990. If because of the operation of G.S. 160A-37.1(h), G.S. 160A-37.3(g), G.S. 160A-38, G.S. 160A-58.57(h), G.S. 160A-58.59(g), G.S. 160A-50, the order of any court, or the operation of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, an annexation ordinance is to become effective during the period beginning November 1, 1989, and ending January 1, 1990, it shall instead become effective on a date during the period beginning January 2, 1990, and ending December 31, 1990, set by ordinance of the governing board of the city.
(b) If the final date upon which an annexation ordinance adopted under Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, may be made effective occurs during the period beginning November 1, 1989, and ending January 1, 1990, the effective date of the annexation may be set in the annexation ordinance as any date during the period beginning January 2, 1990, and ending December 31, 1990, in addition to any date permitted by law before November 1, 1989.
(c) This section applies to territory located in counties with a population of 55,000 or over, according to the 1980 decennial federal census, and to territory located in all other counties subject to Part 2 of Article 12A of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes, pursuant to G.S. 163-132.6. (1987, c. 715, s. 3; 1989, c. 440, s. 6; 2017-6, s. 3; 2018-146, ss. 3.1(a), (b), 6.1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.10 - Tax of newly annexed territory.

§ 160A-58.10. Tax of newly annexed territory.
(a) Applicability of Section. – Real and personal property in territory annexed pursuant to this Article is subject to municipal taxes as provided in this section.
(b) Prorated Taxes. – Real and personal property in the newly annexed territory on the January 1 immediately preceding the beginning of the fiscal year in which the annexation becomes effective is subject to prorated municipal taxes levied for that fiscal year as provided in this subsection. The amount of municipal taxes that would have been due on the property had it been within the municipality for the full fiscal year shall be multiplied by the following fraction: the denominator shall be 12 and the numerator shall be the number of full calendar months remaining in the fiscal year, following the day on which the annexation becomes effective. The product of the multiplication is the amount of prorated taxes due. The lien for prorated taxes levied on a parcel of real property shall attach to the parcel taxed on the listing date, as provided in G.S. 105-285, immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the annexation becomes effective. The lien for prorated taxes levied on personal property shall attach on the same date to all real property of the taxpayer in the taxing unit, including the newly annexed territory. If the annexation becomes effective after June 30 and before September 2, the prorated taxes shall be due and payable on the first day of September of the fiscal year for which the taxes are levied. If the annexation becomes effective after September 1 and before the following July 1, the prorated taxes shall be due and payable on the first day of September of the next succeeding fiscal year. The prorated taxes are subject to collection and foreclosure in the same manner as other taxes levied for the fiscal year in which the prorated taxes become due.
(c) Taxes in Subsequent Fiscal Years. – In fiscal years subsequent to the fiscal year in which an annexation becomes effective, real and personal property in the newly annexed territory is subject to municipal taxes on the same basis as is the preexisting territory of the municipality.
(d) Transfer of Tax Records. – For purposes of levying prorated taxes the municipality shall obtain from the county a record of property in the area being annexed that was listed for taxation on the January 1 immediately preceding the fiscal year for which the prorated taxes are levied. In addition, if the effective date of annexation falls between January 1 and June 30, the municipality shall, for purposes of levying taxes for the fiscal year beginning July 1 following the date of annexation, obtain from the county a record of property in the area being annexed that was listed for taxation as of said January 1. (1977, c. 517, s. 9.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.21 - Purpose.

§ 160A-58.21. Purpose.
It is the purpose of this Part to authorize cities to enter into binding agreements concerning future annexation in order to enhance orderly planning by such cities as well as residents and property owners in areas adjacent to such cities. (1989, c. 143, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.22 - Definitions.

§ 160A-58.22. Definitions.
The words defined in this section shall have the meanings indicated when used in this Part:
(1) "Agreement" means any written agreement authorized by this Part.
(2) "Annexation" means any extension of a city's corporate limits as authorized by this Article, the charter of the city, or any local act applicable to the city, as such statutory authority exists now or is hereafter amended.
(3) "Participating city" means any city which is a party to an agreement. (1989, c. 143, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.23 - Annexation agreements authorized.

§ 160A-58.23. Annexation agreements authorized.
Two or more cities may enter into agreements in order to designate one or more areas which are not subject to annexation by one or more of the participating cities. The agreements shall be of reasonable duration, not to exceed 20 years, and shall be approved by ordinance of the governing board and executed by the mayor of each city and spread upon its minutes. (1989, c. 143, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.25 - Effect of agreement.

§ 160A-58.25. Effect of agreement.
From and after the effective date of an agreement, no participating city may adopt an annexation ordinance as to all or any portion of an area in violation of the agreement. (1989, c. 143, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.26 - Part grants no annexation authority.

§ 160A-58.26. Part grants no annexation authority.
Nothing in this Part shall be construed to authorize the annexation of any area which is not otherwise subject to annexation under applicable law. (1989, c. 143, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.28 - Effect on prior local acts.

§ 160A-58.28. Effect on prior local acts.
This Part does not affect Chapter 953, Session Laws of 1983, Chapter 847, Session Laws of 1985 (1986 Regular Session), or Chapters 204, 233, or 1009, Session Laws of 1987, authorizing annexation agreements, but any city which is authorized to enter into agreements by one of those acts may enter into future agreements either under such act or this Part. (1989, c. 143, s. 1; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 1030, s. 48.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 160A - Cities and Towns › Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits. › § 160A-58.50 - Declaration of policy.

§ 160A-58.50. Declaration of policy.
It is hereby declared as a matter of State policy:
(1) That sound urban development is essential to the continued economic development of North Carolina.
(2) That municipalities are created to provide the governmental services essential for sound urban development and for the protection of health, safety, and welfare in areas being intensively used for residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and governmental purposes or in areas undergoing such development.
(3) That municipal boundaries should be extended in accordance with legislative standards applicable throughout the State to include such areas and to provide the high quality of governmental services needed therein for the public health, safety, and welfare.
(4) That areas annexed to municipalities in accordance with such uniform legislative standards should receive the services provided by the annexing municipality.
(5) That the provision of services to protect the health, safety, and welfare is a public purpose.
(6) That it is essential for citizens to have an effective voice in annexations initiated by municipalities. (2011-396, s. 9.)