GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

SESSION LAW 2009-371

SENATE BILL 53

AN ACT allowing the town of burgaw to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction over an area extending two miles from its limits.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding the population provisions in G.S. 160A-360(a), the Town of Burgaw may exercise the extraterritorial jurisdiction powers granted in Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes within a defined area extending not more than two miles beyond its corporate limits. Except as otherwise provided by this act, the extension of extraterritorial jurisdiction by the Town of Burgaw is subject to the provisions of G.S. 160A-360.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29^th day of July, 2009.

                                                                    s/  Marc Basnight

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives