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35 6. Smoking Regulations -Support legislation to allow Boards of Public Health, upon request of Boards of County Commissioners, to adopt a rule or regulation regulating smoking in places of public accommodation. Intergovernmental Relations 1. Transportation Funding -Oppose legislation shifting the state's existing responsibility for funding transportation construction and maintenance projects to county governments. (See also Item #1 S of Orange County's Legislative Matters Resolution) 2. Modernize Annexation Laws -Support legislation modernizing the annexation laws as follows: • Requiring the development of joint utility service plans for urbanizing areas; • Requiring cities to reimburse counties for the loss of sales tax due to an annexation + Increasing the degree of urbanization required to annex property; • Requiring a referendum on proposed involuntary annexations in areas where public services -water and sewer and solid waste -are already in place; and + Requiring the direct provision of municipal water and sewer services to customers within three years of an annexation. • Providing that counties have the option of continuing to provide utilities to annexed areas. • Setting the effective date for involuntary annexations to be June 30 following the date of adoption or final resolution of an appeal. (See also Item #33 of Orange County's Legislative Matters Resolution) Orange County believes many of the issues that arise during the annexation process could be reduced or eliminated if state law encouraged or required the implementation of long- range planning agreements between towns and counties. 3. Collective Bargaining for Public Employees -Oppose legislation authorizing local governments to enter into collective bargaining agreements with public employees, or mandating dues check-off programs. Orange County neither supports nor opposes this position. 4. Workers' Compensation Reform -Support legislation to reform North Carolina's Workers' Compensation system to reduce disability findings and open-ended streams of payment, to address the trend in favor of long-term disability findings, to diminish control over these findings on the part of claimants and their legal representatives, and to curtail adoption of rules that limit return-to-work efforts. Orange County neither supports nor opposes this position. 5. Rural Transportation Planning Organizations - Support legislation providing continued funding of rural transportation planning organizations (RPOs), enabling increased participation in transportation planning for the state's non-urban areas by local governments. Long-range transportation plans drafted by RPOs or MPOs should be