GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 166

HOUSE BILL 804

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE ALAMANCE COUNTY AND BURLINGTON CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The boundary lines of the Burlington City School Administrative Unit shall embrace all territory within the existing municipal corporate boundaries of the City of Burlington on the effective date of this act.

Sec. 2.  The boundaries of the Burlington City School Administrative Unit shall not hereafter be extended to include additional territory outside the corporate boundaries of the City of Burlington.

Sec. 3.  No sooner than nine months and no later than one year after the effective date of any annexation of additional territory to the municipal corporate boundaries of the City of Burlington, the Alamance County Board of Elections shall conduct an election by the duly qualified voters entitled to vote in a general election residing in the newly annexed territory of the City of Burlington to determine whether such territory shall remain as part of the Alamance County School Administrative Unit, or become a part of the Burlington City School Administrative Unit, and the majority of those voting in such election shall determine which administrative unit such territory shall be a part of, effective on the first day of July next following certification of the results of such election.  In case the number of votes shall be equally divided, the territory shall remain in the Alamance County School Administrative Unit.

Sec. 4.  Chapter 642, Session Laws of 1979, is repealed.

Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1985.