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5 <br />Office of the County <br />Attorney <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />P.O. BOX 8181 <br />200 S. CAMERON STREET <br />HILLSBOROUGH, NC 27278 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: .John Roberts, County Attorney <br />FROM: Sahana Ayer, Staff Attorney <br />DATE: November 1, 2011 <br />\~ ~ a a`% <br />RE: Orange County Ordinances -Republication <br />This memorandum is written to identify the specific technical revisions to Orange County ordinances for <br />purposes of incorporation into and republication of the General Code of Ordinances. <br />The manner of arrangement, classification and indexing of the Orange County ordinances is currently <br />incomplete and inadequate to meet the needs of the County and the general public. Pursuant to the <br />authority granted by N.C. Gen. Statute §153A-49, the Board of County Commissioners ("Board") <br />instructed the County Attorney to codify and compile the existing ordinances and incorporate the said <br />ordinances into a General Code of Ordinances. <br />Since July 2009, the Orange County Attorney's Office has been editing, proofreading and preparing all <br />Orange County Ordinances (excluding the Orange County Unified Development Ordinance) for <br />republication by the MuniCode Corporation. During this process, the ordinances have been reformatted <br />and renumbered in accordance with the MuniCode numbering and formatting guidelines. Each ordinance <br />(excluding the Unified Development Ordinance) has been reviewed to ensure typographical and <br />grammatical correctness, rectify conflicts and inconsistences between the ordinances and state statues and <br />ensure accuracy of state law references, internal cross-references and historical notes. Additionally, the <br />names of the following federal, state and Orange .County Departments and personnel designations have <br />been changed as indicated below: <br />Former Name Revision <br />Chairperson Chair <br />County of Orange Orange County <br />Department of Emergency Management Department of Emergency Services <br />Department of Inspections Department of Planning and Inspections <br />