Amends SL 1983-659 (Article V of the Charter of the City of Southport [City]) to prevent the City from enforcing any ordinances regulating the removal, replacement, and preservation of trees on public or private property outside the City's contiguous corporate limits. Directs that the act should not be construed as prohibiting the City from adopting ordinances regulating the removal, replacement, and preservation of trees on public or private property within the City's contiguous corporate limits as authorized by law.