§ 14-40-2005. Filing
(a) All documents produced by landowners, municipalities, or others relating to detachment and annexation as enumerated in this subchapter shall be filed with the circuit clerk with copies served upon the municipality and landowners. (b) (1) The circuit clerk shall establish a system of filing for these matters upon action’s having been taken by a […]
§ 14-40-2006. Provision of municipal services
In a municipal services matter under this subchapter, if a city or incorporated town from which the inhabitants detached determines that the scheduled services are available or became available to the detaching inhabitants by the city or incorporated town to which the inhabitants were annexed into, the inhabitants shall automatically be detached and annexed back […]
§ 14-40-1210. Payment of existing debts
(a) (1) The debts of each municipality owing prior to or at the time of the consolidation shall be paid by the consolidated municipality by appropriating the revenues derived from year to year from the territory and the inhabitants of what was formerly the larger municipality to the payment of the debts of the larger […]
§ 14-40-2101. Simultaneous detachment and annexation by two cities
(a) When the boundaries of two (2) municipalities are contiguous to and adjoining one another, and one (1) municipality desires to detach and annex territory in another municipality, then the governing body of the municipality desiring to detach and annex territory may propose an ordinance calling for the simultaneous detachment of the lands from the […]
§ 14-40-1211. Prior debts not preferred
(a) Creditors of either municipal corporation, on account of obligations made prior to consolidation, shall not be paid sooner or shall not be permitted to enforce the collection of their debts sooner against the consolidated city or incorporated town than the separate municipality prior to consolidation could have paid its own debts or could have […]
§ 14-40-2201. Annexation and provision of scheduled services
(a) (1) Beginning March 1, 2014, and each successive year thereafter, the mayor or city manager of a city or incorporated town shall file annually with the city clerk or recorder, town recorder, and county clerk a written notice describing any annexation elections that have become final in the previous eight (8) years. (2) The […]
§ 14-40-1212. Rights of annexed territory to benefits of its revenues
(a) The wards formed out of the territory comprising the former territory of the smaller municipal corporation annexed under the provisions of this subchapter shall always receive betterments and improvements in an amount equal to the amount of revenue derived by the consolidated municipality from the territory and inhabitants of the smaller municipal corporation, after […]
§ 14-40-2202. Inhabitants of annexed area
(a) In all annexations under § 14-40-303 and in accordance with § 14-40-606, after the territory declared annexed is considered part of a city or incorporated town, the inhabitants residing in the annexed portion shall: (1) Have all the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of the annexing city or incorporated town; and (2) (A) […]
§ 14-40-1213. Franchises, contracts, and other obligations
No franchises, contracts, or other obligations of an extraordinary nature, or other than those necessary for the ordinary and usual running of the affairs of either municipal corporation, which have been granted, made, or created by either municipal corporation after the passage of an ordinance favoring annexation, and prior to the consummation of the annexation, […]
§ 14-40-1801. Proceedings generally
(a) Whenever any municipal corporation shall desire to throw any portion of the territory lying within its corporate limits outside of the limits and remit it back to the county in which the municipal corporation is situated, it shall be lawful for the council of the municipal corporation to submit the question to the qualified […]