North Carolina Annexation Law, 2024 Edition, provides a definitive overview of municipal annexation in North Carolina. Frayda Bluestein and David Lawrence have substantially revised the previous three-volume edition, reorganizing, updating, and consolidating it into a single volume supplemented with additional resources to help local government officials navigate the processes involved in annexation. Readers will find information on a variety of topics, including: * the four types of annexation authorized by North Carolina statutes; * statutory law and case law as they have applied to annexation, historically and currently; * the standards and procedures for annexation petitions, area descriptions, annexation ordinances, and other elements of annexation procedure; * the annexation of economically distressed areas; * and the effects of annexation on utilities, municipal services, development regulation, public and private service providers, and electoral districts.