It is the purpose of this subchapter to assist landowners to obtain municipal services by making the services reasonably available. However, nothing in this subchapter shall relieve a landowner from the obligation to pay regular fees and costs for connecting to services or from the obligation to pay the regular cost of the services.
(a) (1) A landowner or group of landowners seeking additional municipal services may have its land detached from the municipality in which it is located and annexed into another municipality that borders the land. (2) However, before annexation is allowed, the municipality in which the land is located shall have an opportunity to provide the […]
(a) In no event shall the provisions of this subchapter allow a municipality to be split in half or to have any of its land separately encircled, thereby creating an island of that city within the boundaries of another city. (b) Any detachment and annexation occurring that creates a split or island shall be void […]
(a) (1) The circuit courts of the state shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear all matters related to this subchapter. (2) The circuit court of the county in which the municipalities are located or, in the event that the municipalities are located in different counties or judicial districts, the circuit court of the county or […]
(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 […]
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 […]
