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Exhibit B <br />BILL DRAFT 2011 <br />1 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE ALAMANCE COUNTY AND ORANGE COUNTY TO <br />2 RECOMMEND. THE LOCATION OF NINE PERCENT (9%) OF THE COMMON <br />3 BOUNDARY BETWEEN ALAMANCE COUNTY AND ORANGE COUNTY <br />4 SUBSEQUENT TO THE 2010/2011 RESURVEY OF THE HISTORIC ORANGE COUNTY <br />5 ALAMANCE COUNTY BOUNDARY LINE AS DESCRIBED IN THE 1849 SURVEY <br />6 ESTABLISHING ALAMANCE COUNTY <br />7 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: <br />8 SECTION 1. The historic boundary line forming Alamance County from Orange <br />9 County was described and surveyed in 1849. In the subsequent 160 years, this line became <br />10 uncertain resulting in unintentional modifications to the boundary line affecting taxation, <br />11 school attendance, zoning maps, and elections, within and among Alamance County, Orange <br />12 County and the Town of Mebane, North Carolina. Pursuant to NC Gen. Stat.153A-18(a) <br />13 entitled `Uncertain or Disputed Boundary', both` county commissions passed resolutions <br />14 (Alamance County, December 17, 2007 and Orange County, January 18, 2008) to request that <br />15 North Carolina Geodetic Survey (NCGS) perform a preliminary re-survey and present a <br />16 proposed map for consideration by both counties. <br />17 SECTION 2. The Alamance County Board of Commissioners agreed, by vote on April <br />18 21, 2008 and Orange County. on May 20, 2008 to approve authorizing NCGS to conduct the <br />19 preliminary survey and the placing of monuments by NCGS consistent with their research to <br />20 form a boundary baseline. On July 8, 2010 the North Carolina General Assembly enacted <br />21 Session Law 2010-61, which enabled Alamance County and Orange County to transition <br />22 properties between the two. counties'' for the purpose of recommending to the North Carolina <br />23 General Assembly a mutually agreed upon boundary line between the two counties. <br />24 SECTION 3. Following an extended process pursuant to the terms of Session Law <br />25 2010-61 Alamance County. and Orange County Have agreed upon and have recommended the <br />26 North Carolina General Assembly, through separate Local Act, establish and adopt ninety-one <br />27 percent (91%) of the boundary line separating Alamance County and Orange County. <br />28 SECTION 4. The Alamance County and Orange County Boards of Commissioners <br />29 require further time to determine the most appropriate location of the final nine percent (9%) of <br />30 the boundary line separating Alnmance County and Orange County in order to make a final <br />31 recommendation to the North Carolina General Assembly. A description of the nine percent <br />32 (9%) area is attached as Exhibit A to this Act. <br />33 SECTION 5. The Alamance County and Orange County Boards of Commissioners are <br />34 authorized to review the remaining nine percent (9%) of the boundary separating the two <br />35 counties and shall determine, in their discretion, the most appropriate location for a boundary <br />10 <br />