annexation; county land;
restrictions
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Committee on Retirement & Government Operations |
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HB 2462 prohibits a city or town from annexing territory from the county that is a county owned park, a park operated on public lands by a county as part of a management agreement or land owned by a flood control district unless otherwise agreed to by the board of supervisors. Also, HB 2462 establishes a process for a county to initiate deannexation of a territory from a city or town that is a county owned park, a park operated on public lands by a county as part of a management agreement or land owned by a flood control district.
Current Status
HB 2462 was amended in the Public Institutions & Rural Affairs Committee to state that a city or town may annex territory that is a county owned park, a park operated on public lands by a county as part of a management agreement or land owned by a flood control district if otherwise agreed to by the board of supervisors. Additionally, the amendment removes the process by which a county can initiate deannexation of property as stated in the bill and places in a separate section of statute a process by which a city or town can return land to the county.
A.R.S. § 9-471 establishes the procedures that are required to extend and increase the boundaries of a city or town through annexation. The first step in annexation is creating a petition that contains a description and map of the area to be annexed. Thirty days after the petition has been filed with the county recorder, signatures must be collected of more than one-half of the owners of real and personal property and more than one-half of the owners of real and personal property in the proposed annexation. The signatures must be collected within one year after the last day of the thirty-day waiting period prior to obtaining signatures. Once the signatures have been collected, the governing board of the city or town can adopt an ordinance annexing the territory that becomes final 30 days later.
Additionally, current statute outlines a process by which one municipality can deannex property from another municipality. HB 2462 would extend the authority to deannex to counties if the territory is a county owned park, a park operated on public lands by a county as part of a management agreement or land owned by a flood control district.
· Prohibits a city or town from annexing territory that is a county owned park, a park operated on public lands by a county as part of a management agreement or land owned by a flood control district unless otherwise agreed to by the board of supervisors.
· Establishes a process for a county to initiate deannexation of a territory from a city or town that is a county owned park, a park operated on public lands by a county as part of a management agreement or land owned by a flood control district.
· States that a city or town may annex territory that is a county owned park, a park operated on public lands by a county as part of a management agreement or land owned by a flood control district if otherwise agreed to by the board of supervisors.
· Removes the process by which a county can initiate deannexation of property as stated in the bill and places in a separate section of statute a process by which a city or town can return land to the county.