Section 72.424

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

Chapter 72

Effective - 28 Aug 2000, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  72.424.  Owners of certain tracts of land located in certain cities (including Eureka and Wildwood) may, by agreement, choose to join one or the other, procedure — termination date. — Notwithstanding any other provisions of sections 72.400 to 72.423, any owner of a tract of land of thirty acres or less owned by a single owner and that is located within two or more municipalities, one municipality being a city of the fourth classification with a population between four thousand six hundred and five thousand, and the other municipality being a constitutional charter city with a population between sixteen thousand three hundred and seventeen thousand, and both municipalities located within a county of the first classification having a charter form of government and having a minimum population of nine hundred thousand, may elect which municipality to belong to by agreement of that municipality. Such owner's election shall occur within ninety days of August 28, 2000. Such agreement shall consist of the enactment by the governing body of the receiving municipality of an ordinance describing by metes and bounds the property, declaring the property so described to be detached and annexed, and stating the reasons for and the purposes to be accomplished by the detachment and annexation. A copy of said ordinance shall be mailed to the county clerk and to the city clerk and assessor of the contributing municipality before December fifteenth, with such transfer becoming effective the next January first. Such choice of municipalities shall be permanent. Thereafter, all courts of this state shall take notice of the limits of both municipalities as changed by the ordinances. This section shall only apply to boundary changes effected after January 1, 1990, and occurring by the incorporation of a municipality. This section shall expire and be of no force and effect on March 1, 2001.

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(L. 1999 S.B. 160 & 82, Repealed L. 2000 S.B. 1001 Revision,  A.L. 2000 H.B. 1238)

Expires 3-1-01