Report of the Joint Annexation Study Committee of the North Carolina Association of the County Commissioners and the North Carolina League of Municipalities

This is the former of two formal studies of the annexation law during the 1980s. This study, by the state League of Municipalities and state Association of County Commissioners, was undertaken during the first months of 1980. The joint committee made three recommendations for change, two quite minor, and a third which would have set up a process under which cities could be forced to annex adjacent areas that had become urban and were in need of city services. The minor changes made their way into the report of the second 1980s study and from there into law, but nothing has come of the proposal for mandated annexation.