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 A Grassroots Effort to End forced Annexation Abuse in North Carolina

"We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience." --Thomas Jefferson

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Enacted Session Laws affecting annexation:

Local Vote restored:

ETJ

  • H1083v4.pdf

Satellite Annex
The UNC School of Government publishes a review of each Legislative Session since 1996:

  • 1996 Session Review

  • 1997 Session Review

  • 1998 Session Review

  • 1999 Session Review

  • 2000 Session Review

  • 2001 Session Review

  • 2002 Session Review

  • 2003 Session Review

  • 2004 Session Review

  • 2005 Session Review

  • 2006 Session Review

Introduced Legislation; Not enacted:

(I will be adding more information as I continue researching annexation in NC)

 When the 1959 Annexation Laws were passed, a number of counties were exempted from the law and retained the right of the property owner to vote on a "city initiated" annexation.
(See the 1959 News & Observer article listing those Counties HERE)

Those Counties exempted were Columbus, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Halifax, Harnett, Iredell, Nash, Pender, Perquimans, Person, & Randolph.

Over the years, many of the Counties originally exempted passed local legislation that removed the exemption and took away the right to vote on "city initiated" annexations.
Did the voters realize that they were giving up their right to vote?

To view the legislation that removed the exemptions, use the links below: