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