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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 358.5, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 1 2 1997, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 The board of supervisors to whom the petition is addressed 1 4 shall preside at the hearing provided for in section 358.4 and 1 5 shall continue the hearing in session, with adjournments from 1 6 day to day, if necessary, until completed, without being 1 7 required to give any further notice of the hearing. Proof of 1 8 the residences and qualifications of the petitioners as 1 9 eligible electors shall be made by affidavit or otherwise as 1 10 the board may direct. The board may consider the boundaries 1 11 of a proposed sanitary district, whether they shall be as 1 12 described in the petition or otherwise, and for that purpose 1 13 may alter and amend the petition and limit or change the 1 14 boundaries of the proposed district as stated in the petition. 1 15 The board shall adjust the boundaries of a proposed district 1 16 as needed to exclude land that has no reasonable likelihood of 1 17 benefit from inclusion in the proposed district. The 1 18 boundaries of a proposed district shall not be changed to 1 19 incorporate property not included in the original petition and 1 20 published notice until the owner of the property is given 1 21 notice of inclusion as on the original hearing. All persons 1 22 in the proposed district shall have an opportunity to be heard 1 23 regarding the location and boundaries of the proposed district 1 24 and to make suggestions regarding the location and boundaries, 1 25 and the board of supervisors, after hearing the statements, 1 26 evidence and suggestions made and offered at the hearing, 1 27 shall enter an order fixing and determining the limits and 1 28 boundaries of the proposed district and directing that an 1 29 election be held for the purpose of submitting to the 1 30 registered votersowning landresiding within the boundaries 1 31 of the proposed district the question of organization and 1 32 establishment of the proposed sanitary district as determined 1 33 bysaidthe board of supervisors. The order shall fix a date 1 34 for the election not more than sixty days after the date of 1 35 the order. 2 1 EXPLANATION 2 2 This bill corrects an internal conflict in Code section 2 3 358.5 by providing that all registered voters residing rather 2 4 than owning land within a proposed sanitary district may vote 2 5 on the question of whether to establish the sanitary district. 2 6 LSB 1689HC 77 2 7 sc/cf/24
Text: HSB00093 Text: HSB00095 Text: HSB00000 - HSB00099 Text: HSB Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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