NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1232

SENATE BILL 795

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 160-453.12 AND G.S. 160-453.24, RELATING TO MUNICIPAL ANNEXATION, SO AS TO REMOVE FRANKLIN COUNTY THEREFROM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 160-453.12 and G.S. 160-453.24, as they appear in the 1967 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3D of the General Statutes, are hereby amended by deleting the word "Franklin" from each section.

Sec. 1 1/2. Any town board of commissioners in any incorporated town in Franklin County shall before undertaking to extend its present corporate limits adopt a resolution specifically designating the area proposed to be annexed and agree to a deadline for furnishing said area the services enumerated in G.S. 160-453.3. The commissioners of said town shall then call an election to determine if a majority of the qualified voters residing in the proposed area to be annexed are in favor of such annexation. The ballot in such election shall be in form as follows:

[ ]       FOR annexation

[ ]       AGAINST annexation

In the interest of time and economy, any town board of commissioners may, in lieu of an election after the provisions of the first sentence of this Section are complied with, annex an area upon receiving a petition properly signed by a majority of the qualified voters residing in the area proposed to be annexed. No area shall be annexed except as herein provided by a majority of those voting in favor of said annexation or by a majority of the qualified voters residing in a proposed area to be annexed signing a petition requesting such annexation.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1969.