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44 <br />DRAFT <br />Exhibit A <br />SESSION 2010 <br />AN ACT TO ENABLE THE TRANSITION <br />ALAMANCE COUNTY ALONG THEIR COMMO <br />TIME BY WHICH ORANGE AND ALAMANCE <br />REQUEST TO THE NORTH CAROLINA <br />ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OFFICIAL <br />COUNTIES. <br />OF THE AREAS OF ORANGE AND <br />[~ BOUNDARY LINE AND TO SET A <br />COUNTY SHALL SUBMIT A FORMAL <br />GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR THE <br />BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THE <br />Section 1. <br />The historic boundary line of Orange and Alamance County <br />was that line described in the 1849 survey and formally adopted <br />by the North Carolina General Assembly in approximately 1851. <br />Throughout the 170 years since that survey the exact location of <br />the surveyed line has become uncertain resulting in <br />unintentional modifications to the boundary line affecting <br />taxation, school attendance, zoning maps, etc., within and among <br />the two counties and the Town of Mebane, North Carolina. <br />Section 2. <br />(a) The 1849 survey line has, in 2008, been located by <br />survey of the North Carolina Geodetic Survey Division ("NCGSD") <br />of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural <br />Resources. <br />(b) Article VII Section I of the Constitution of the State <br />of North Carolina states "The General Assembly shall provide for <br />the organization and government and the fixing of boundaries of <br />counties.." <br />(c) Orange and Alamance Counties agree with and wish to <br />recommend the General Assembly fix and adopt approximately <br />sixty-one percent of the 2008 NCGSD survey line as the official <br />boundary line between the Counties. <br />(d) Orange and Alamance County and the Town of Mebane <br />desire to survey and modify approximately thirty-nine percent of <br />the 2008 NCGSD survey line, said thirty-nine percent to be <br />modified in accordance with local values and principles, and to <br />then formally submit to the 2011 Session of the General Assembly <br />an agreed upon boundary line for fixation and adoption. <br />(e) Any modification that may be made in the line submitted <br />to the General Assembly as set out in Section 2(d) shall only <br />impact properties adjacent to or split by the 2008 NCGSD survey <br />