AN ACT to require the approval of the board of commissioners of chatham county before the towns of apex or cary may make an involuntary annexation into chatham county.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Neither the Towns of Apex nor Cary may adopt an annexation ordinance under Part 3 of Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes that applies to any territory located within Chatham County unless the Board of Commissioners of Chatham County has, prior to the adoption of the annexation ordinance, approved a resolution or ordinance consenting to that annexation.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies with respect to any annexation ordinance adopted after the date this act becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 2011.

	s/	 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Thom Tillis
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives