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Forced Annexation in N.C.: A question-and-answer guide

by Daren Bakst
posted on in City & County Government, Property Rights, Spending & Taxes

Forced annexation is a kind of city-initiated annexation that allows municipalities unilaterally to force citizens living in unincorporated areas into the municipalities.

North Carolina has an extreme annexation law even among states classified by recent studies as forced-annexation states.


Forced Annexation in N.C.: A question-and-answer guide

Daren Bakst is the Research Fellow in Agricultural Policy at the Heritage Foundation.  In this position, Bakst studies and writes about agricultural and environmental policy and property rights, among other issues.  He has done extensive work on the farm bill… ...

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