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Ezhibit A BILL DRAFT 2011 1 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH NINETY-ONE PERCENT (91%) OF THE COMMON 2 BOUNDARY BETWEEN ALAMANCE COUNTY AND ORANGE COUNTY 3 SUBSEQUENT TO THE 2010/2011 RESURVEY OF THE HISTORIC ORANGE COUNTY 4 ALAMANCE COUNTY BOUNDARY LINE AS DESCRIBED IN THE 1849 SURVEY 5 ESTABLISHING ALAMANCE COUNTY 6 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 7 SECTION 1. The historic boundary line forming Alamance County from Orange 8 County was described and surveyed in 1849. In the subsequent 160 years, this line became 9 uncertain resulting in unintentional modifications to the boundary line affecting taxation, 10 school attendance, zoning maps, and elections, within and among Alamance County, Orange 11 County and the Town of Mebane, North Carolina. Pursuant to NC Gen. Stat.153A-18(a) 12 entitled `Uncertain or Disputed Boundary', both county commissions passed resolutions 13 (Alamance County, December 17, 2007 and Orange County, January 18, 2008) to request that 14 North Carolina Geodetic Survey (NCGS) perform a preliminary re-survey and present a 15 proposed map for consideration by both counties. 16 SECTION 2. The Alamance County Board of Commissioners agreed, by vote on April 17 21, 2008 and Orange County on May 20, 2008 to approve authorizing NCGS to conduct the 18 preliminary survey and the placing of monuments by NCGS consistent with their research to 19 form a boundary baseline. On July 8, 2010 the North Carolina General Assembly enacted 20 Session Law 2010-61, which enabled Alamance County and Orange County to transition 21 properties between the two counties for the purpose of recommending to the North Carolina 22 General Assembly a mutually agreed upon boundary line between the two counties. 23 SECTION 3. Section 3 of Session Law 2010-61 is Amended as follows: In the 160 24 years since the initial survey of the Alamance County Orange County Boundary Line 25 Alamance and Orange County have entered multiple taxing agreements, which have resulted in 26 properties being taxed in one county by the adjoining county. Other situations have arisen in 27 which children of one county attend school in the adjoining county and voters in one county 28 have voted in the adjoining county. The General Assembly recognizes the difficulties in 29 addressing these issues and authorizes Alamance County and Orange County to maintain the 30 current taxing, elections, education and any other recognized government function in place 31 until July 1, 2012. 32 SECTION 4. Section 4 of Session Law 2010-61 is Amended as follows: 33 SECTION 4.(a) On and after July 1, 2011, all papers, documents, and 34 instruments required or permitted to be filed or registered, involving residents and property in 35 areas affected by the resurvey of the boundary line, which previously may have been recorded 5