Hunter v. City of Asheville

WELLS, Judge.

The question dispositive of the rights and obligations of the parties to this appeal is whether the effective date of the annexation ordinance was 11 July 1983, the date the judgment of this Court holding the ordinance to be valid was certified, or whether the effective date of the ordinance was 6 December 1983, the date of our Supreme Court’s order dismissing plaintiffs’ appeal and denying discretionary review of our judgment.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-50 (1982) governs appeals from the enactment of annexation ordinances. Subsection (i) provides:

If part or all of the area annexed…