§ 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 […]
§ 14-40-1211. 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 […]
§ 14-40-1212. 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 […]
§ 14-40-1213. 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 […]
§ 14-40-1802. Order for exclusion
(a) After hearing the petition, if the county court shall be satisfied that a majority of the qualified electors of the corporation are in favor of the exclusion of the territory mentioned in the petition from within its limits, or alternatively that the city council has resolved to request that the territory be excluded from […]
§ 14-40-1803. When effective — Limitation
(a) After the record shall have been filed and a copy forwarded to the Secretary of State, the territory shall cease to be a part of the municipal corporation. (b) The limits of cities of the first and second class shall not be reduced to an area less than they were on January 1, 1872.
§ 14-40-1201. Petition for consolidation
(a) (1) (A) Beginning July 1, 1995, when the inhabitants of any city or incorporated town adjoining or contiguous to another smaller municipal corporation of any class in the same county shall desire that the city or incorporated town annex to it or consolidate with it the smaller municipal corporation, they may apply, by a […]
§ 14-40-1202. Special election called
(a) (1) (A) Upon presentation of the petition to the county court by the authorized persons, the court shall at once order and call a special election, to be held in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq., in both of the municipal corporations on the question of the annexation and the name of the proposed […]
§ 14-40-1203. Election results
(a) At any election held under this subchapter, all qualified electors who are residents of either municipality shall be allowed to vote on the adoption or rejection of the proposed annexation or consolidation and the name of the proposed consolidated municipality. (b) (1) (A) (i) If a majority of the votes cast in each of […]