§ 163-288.1. Activating voters for newly annexed or incorporated areas. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 163‑288.1. Activating voters for newly annexed or incorporated areas.

(a)        Whenever any new city or special district is incorporated orwhenever an existing city or district annexes any territory, the city orspecial district shall cause a map of the corporate or district limits to beprepared from the boundary descriptions in the act, charter or other documentcreating the city or district or authorizing or implementing the annexation.The map shall be delivered to the county or municipal board of electionsconducting the elections for the city or special district. The board ofelections shall then activate for city or district elections each votereligible to vote in the city or district who is registered to vote in thecounty to the extent that residence addresses shown on the county registrationcertificates can be identified as within the limits of the city or specialdistrict. Each voter whose registration is thus activated for city or specialdistrict elections shall be so notified by mail. The cost of preparing the mapof the newly incorporated city or special district or of the newly annexedarea, and of activating voters eligible to vote therein, shall be paid by thecity or special district. In lieu of the procedures set forth in this section,the county board of elections may use either of the methods of registration ofvoters set out in G.S. 163‑288.2 when activating voters pursuant to theincorporation of a new city or election of city officials or both underauthority of an act of the General Assembly or when activating voters after anannexation of new  territory by a city or special district under Chapter 160A,Article 4A, or other general or local law.

(b)        Each voter whose registration is changed by the county ormunicipal board of elections in any manner pursuant to any annexation orexpunction under this subsection shall be so notified by mail.

(c)        The State Board of Elections shall have authority to adoptregulations for the more detailed administration of this section. (1971, c. 835, s. 1; 1973, c. 793, s. 88; 1977, c.752, s. 1.)