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24 <br /> § 160A-58.54. Character of area to be annexed. <br /> (a) A municipal governing board may extend the municipal corporate limits to include any area <br /> that meets all of the following criteria: <br /> (1) It shall be adjacent or contiguous to the municipality's boundaries at the time the <br /> annexation proceeding is begun, except if the entire territory of a county water and <br /> sewer district created under G.S. 162A-86(bl) is being annexed, the annexation shall <br /> also include any noncontiguous pieces of the district as long as the part of the district <br /> with the greatest land area is adjacent or contiguous to the municipality's boundaries at <br /> the time the annexation proceeding is begun. <br /> (2) At least one-eighth of the aggregate external boundaries of the area shall coincide with <br /> the municipal boundary. <br /> (3) No part of the area shall be included within the boundary of another incorporated <br /> municipality. <br /> (4) The total area to be annexed shall meet the requirements of any of the following: <br /> a. Part or all of the area to be annexed must be developed for urban purposes at <br /> the time of approval of the report provided for in G.S. 160A-58.53. The area <br /> of streets and street rights-of-way shall not be used to determine total acreage <br /> under this subdivision. An area developed for urban purposes is defined as <br /> any area which meets any one of the following standards: <br /> 1. Has a total resident population equal to at least two and three-tenths <br /> persons for each acre of land included within its boundaries. <br /> 2. Has a total resident population equal to at least one person for each <br /> acre of land included within its boundaries, and is subdivided into lots <br /> and tracts such that at least sixty percent (60%) of the total acreage <br /> consists of lots and tracts three acres or less in size and such that at <br /> least sixty-five percent(65%) of the total number of lots and tracts are <br /> one acre or less in size. <br /> 3. Is so developed that at least sixty percent (60%) of the total number <br /> of lots and tracts in the area at the time of annexation are used for <br /> residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, or governmental <br /> purposes, and is subdivided into lots and tracts such that at least sixty <br /> percent(60%) of the total acreage, not counting the acreage used at the <br /> time of annexation for commercial, industrial, governmental, or <br /> institutional purposes, consists of lots and tracts three acres or less in <br /> size. <br /> 4. Is the entire area of any county water and sewer district created under <br /> G.S. 162A-86(bl), if all of the following apply: <br /> I. The municipality has provided in a contract with that district <br /> that the area is developed for urban purposes. <br /> II. The contract provides for the municipality to operate the sewer <br /> system of that county water and sewer district. <br /> IIl. The municipality is annexing in one ordinance the entire <br /> territory of the district not already within the corporate limits of <br /> a municipality. <br />