The Towns of Newport and Morehead City are authorized, by a local bill of the General Assembly entitled "S.L. 1997-185, House Bill 604", adopted June 16, 1997 to exercise extraterritorial planning jurisdiction not to exceed two miles from the corporate limits of the town except where Morehead City overlaps. The dividing line shall begin where the run of Hull Swamp Creek enters into the Newport River, then runs with the run of Hull Swamp Creek to the northwest corner of the property of Merritt-Williams Ford in the southern right-of-way margin of U.S. Highway 70, then northwestward with the southern margin of U.S. Highway 70 to the north westernmost corner of the property of Paul Wysocki (Tax Parcel Number 634608990762), and thence with the Wysocki northwest line in a southwestern direction to the north property line of Mamie Murdoch (Tax Parcel Number 634704708233), and thence westward and southward with the north and west lines of the Murdoch property back to the run of Hull Swamp Creek and shown on the "Official Zoning Map for the Town of Newport".

(Ord. 2021-02, passed 6-14-2021)