Except as provided in division (C) below, no water service shall be provided to any property outside of the municipal limits of the Town, and no subdivision plat shall be recorded for any property outside the municipal limits for which water service will be provided or as may be required by § 50.059, except upon compliance with 1 of the following:
(A) If the property is contiguous to the municipal limits of the Town, or if it is not contiguous, but meets the requirements of G.S. §§ 160A-58 through 160A-58.6 (Satellite Annexations), prior to receiving water service or recording a subdivision plat, the property owners shall irrevocably petition for annexation of the property into the municipal limits of the Town.
(B) If the property is not contiguous to the municipal limits of the Town and satellite annexation cannot be done, the property owners shall enter into a binding written agreement with the Town for the annexation thereof at a future date, as the property shall be contiguous to the municipal limits of the Town, or meets the requirements of G.S. § 160A-58.6 (Satellite Annexation).
(C) Exceptions to these requirements are as follows:
(1) Individual single-family residential lots would require a non-contiguous or satellite annexation;
(2) Property more than 3 miles from any municipal limits of the Town, or from any boundaries deemed for any purpose to be municipal limits of the Town;
(3) Property within another municipality or covered by an annexation agreement with another municipality;
(4) Property that will receive the water through other water utilities; and
(5) Property owned by another governmental unit, and which is the tax situs of taxable personal property with a collective fair-market value in excess of $1,000,000.
(1989 Code, § 50.72) (Ord. passed 3-13-1984; Am. Ord. 474, passed 6-14-1994; Am. Ord. 928, passed 11-13-2001; Am. Ord. 1586, passed 10-13-2015; Am. Ord. 1942, passed 7-13-2021)