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5 <br /> ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> IN ACCORDANCE WITH G.S. 105-321 <br /> State of North Carolina <br /> County of Orange <br /> ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> IN ACCORDANCE WITH G.S. 105 — 373 and 105— 321 <br /> To: Nancy T. Freeman <br /> Tax Collector of Orange County, Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and <br /> Mebane, City of Durham, and applicable Fire Districts <br /> You are hereby authorized, empowered, and commanded to collect the taxes remaining unpaid <br /> as set forth in the 2015 through 2024 tax records filed in the office of the Tax Collector, and in <br /> the tax receipts herewith delivered to you in the amounts and from the taxpayers likewise <br /> therein set forth. You are further authorized, empowered, and commanded to collect the 2015 <br /> through 2025 taxes charged and assessed as provided by law for adjustments, changes, and <br /> additions to the tax records and tax receipts delivered to you which are made in accordance <br /> with law. Such taxes are hereby declared to be a first lien on all real property of the respective <br /> taxpayers in Orange County, Town of Carrboro, Town of Chapel Hill, Town of Hillsborough, <br /> Town of Mebane, City of Durham, Fire Districts of Orange Rural, Efland, South Orange, New <br /> Hope, Eno, Orange Grove, Greater Chapel Hill, Little River, Cedar Grove, Southern Triangle, <br /> Damascus, and White Cross, and Special Districts of Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools and Chapel <br /> Hill Downtown Service District, and this order shall be a full and sufficient authority to direct, <br /> require and enable you to levy on and sell any real and personal property, and attach wages <br /> and/or other funds, of such taxpayers, for and on account thereof, in accordance with law. <br /> You are further authorized to call upon the Sheriff to levy upon and sell personal property under <br /> execution for the payment of taxes. <br /> Within available funds in the budget ordinance and personnel positions established, the Tax <br /> Collector may hire employees, and they shall have the authority to perform those functions <br /> authorized by the Machinery Act of Chapter 105 of North Carolina General Statutes and other <br /> applicable laws for current and previous years' taxes. County personnel presently in the Tax <br /> Collector's office will continue to serve in their respective collection positions. <br /> Witness my hand and official seal, this 26t" day of August, 2025. <br /> Jamezetta Bedford <br /> Chair, Board of County Commissioners <br /> Attest: <br /> Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners <br />