§ 160A-58.9A. Effective date of certain annexation ordinances adopted under Article 4A of Chapter 160A. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 160A‑58.9A. Effective date of certain annexation ordinances adopted under Article 4A ofChapter 160A.

     (a)No annexation ordinance adopted under Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the GeneralStatutes may become effective during the period beginning November 1, 1989, andending January 1, 1990.  If because of the operation of G.S. 160A‑37.1(h),G.S. 160A‑37.3(g), G.S. 160A‑38, G.S. 160A‑49.1(h), G.S. 160A‑49.3(g),G.S. 160A‑50, the order of any court, or the operation of Section 5 ofthe Voting Rights Act of 1965, an annexation ordinance is to become effectiveduring the period beginning November 1, 1989, and ending January 1, 1990, itshall instead become effective on a date during the period beginning January 2,1990, and ending December 31, 1990, set by ordinance of the governing board ofthe city.

(b)        If the final date upon which an annexation ordinance adoptedunder Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, may be made effectiveoccurs during the period beginning November 1, 1989, and ending January 1,1990, the effective date of the annexation may be set in the annexationordinance as any date during the period beginning January 2, 1990, and endingDecember 31, 1990, in addition to any date permitted by law before November 1,1989.

(c)        This section applies to territory located in counties with apopulation of 55,000 or over, according to the 1980 decennial federal census,and to territory located in all other counties subject to Article 12A ofChapter 163 of the General Statutes, pursuant to G.S. 163‑132.6. (1987, c. 715, s. 3; 1989, c. 440, s. 6.)