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Attachment 2 <br />E:] <br />GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA <br />SESSION 2011 <br />SESSION LAW 2012 -108 <br />HOUSE BILL 1090 <br />AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE REMAINING NINE PERCENT OF THE COMMON <br />BOUNDARY BETWEEN ALAMANCE COUNTY AND ORANGE COUNTY NOT <br />ADDRESSED BY SESSION LAW 2011 -88 AND AS AUTHORIZED BY THE <br />GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY SESSION LAW 2010 -61 ENABLING THE CHANGES IN <br />THE HISTORIC ORANGE COUNTY- ALAMANCE COUNTY BOUNDARY LINE AS <br />DESCRIBED IN THE 1849 SURVEY ESTABLISHING ALAMANCE COUNTY. <br />The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: <br />SECTION 1. The historic boundary line forming Alamance County from Orange <br />County was described and surveyed in 1849. In the subsequent 160 years, this line became <br />uncertain, resulting in unintentional modifications to the boundary line affecting taxation, <br />school attendance, zoning maps, and elections, within and among Alamance County, Orange <br />County, and the Town of Mebane, North Carolina. Pursuant to G.S. 153A -18(a) entitled <br />"Uncertain or Disputed Boundary ", both county boards of commissioners passed resolutions <br />(Alamance County, December 17, 2007 and Orange County, January 18, 2008) to request that <br />North Carolina Geodetic Survey perform a preliminary resurvey and present a proposed map <br />for consideration by both counties. <br />SECTION 2. In the 2011 session, the General Assembly, through S.L. 2011 -88, <br />ratified and adopted ninety -one percent (91%) of the boundary line between Alamance County <br />and Orange County. Also in the 2011 session, the General Assembly, through S.L. 2011 -87, <br />authorized the boards of commissioners of Alamance County and Orange County to determine <br />the most appropriate location for the remaining nine percent (9 %) of the boundary line. <br />SECTION 3. The General Assembly recognizes the difficulties in addressing the <br />issues associated with adopting a county boundary line and authorizes Alamance County and <br />Orange County to maintain the current taxing, elections, education and any other recognized <br />government functions in place in the transition areas affected by this act, if so needed, until July <br />1, 2013. <br />SECTION 4.(a) Except as otherwise provided in this act, on and after January 1, <br />2013, all papers, documents, and instruments required or permitted to be filed or registered, <br />involving residents and property in areas affected by the resurvey of the boundary line, which <br />previously may have been recorded in the adjoining counties, shall be recorded in the county to <br />which the property has been reassigned by this act. <br />SECTION 4.(b) On and after January 1, 2013, all real and personal property in <br />areas affected by the resurvey of the boundary line that was subject to ad valorem taxation on <br />January 1, 2013, shall be subject to ad valorem taxes in the county to which the property is <br />reassigned for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, to the same extent as it would have been <br />had it been correctly recognized by the tax departments of each county on March 1, 2013, <br />except as hereinafter provided with respect to classified registered motor vehicles. On <br />September 1, 2012, the adjoining county tax administrators shall commence the transfer to the <br />respective county tax assessors the ad valorem tax listings and valuations for all real and <br />personal property subject to ad valorem taxation in areas affected by the resurvey of the <br />boundary line, except classified motor vehicles which were registered in the adjoining counties <br />prior to July 1, 2012. For the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2012, all real and personal property <br />in areas affected by the resurvey of the boundary line, which was subject to ad valorem taxation <br />in that area on January 1, 2013, shall be assessed and taxed as follows: <br />(1) The ad valorem property taxes assessed on all classified registered motor <br />vehicles registered or listed in adjoining counties between January 1, 2012, <br />11111 111 111 111 11111 111111111 11111111111 11111111 <br />