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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 368.11, Code 1999, is amended by adding 1 2 the following new subsection: 1 3 NEW SUBSECTION. 14. Plans for extending municipal 1 4 services to be provided by the annexing city to the annexed 1 5 territory within three years of completion of the annexation 1 6 process, which date is established pursuant to section 368.20. 1 7 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 368.25 FAILURE TO PROVIDE MUNICIPAL 1 8 SERVICES. 1 9 If a city fails to provide municipal services to territory 1 10 involuntarily annexed within three years after the annexation 1 11 process is completed, the city development board shall 1 12 initiate proceedings to sever the annexed territory from the 1 13 city. A petition for severance filed pursuant to this section 1 14 shall be filed and acted upon in the same manner as a petition 1 15 under section 368.11. For purposes of this section and 1 16 section 368.11, subsection 14, "municipal services" includes, 1 17 but is not limited to, water supply, sewer disposal, solid 1 18 waste collection, and police and fire protection. 1 19 Sec. 3. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to annexations 1 20 approved at an election held on or after the effective date of 1 21 this Act, regardless of the date an annexation petition was 1 22 filed. 1 23 EXPLANATION 1 24 This bill requires the city development board to initiate 1 25 an action for severance of territory which had been 1 26 involuntarily annexed to a city if the city fails to provide 1 27 municipal services to the territory within three years of the 1 28 date the annexation is completed. A petition for severance 1 29 filed by the board under these circumstances is to be acted 1 30 upon in the same manner as an involuntary petition, and is 1 31 subject to approval by the committee of board and local 1 32 representatives and is subject to approval at an election. 1 33 The bill also requires a city to include in its petition 1 34 for involuntary annexation the city's plans for providing 1 35 municipal services to territory proposed to be annexed. 2 1 The bill applies to annexations approved at elections held 2 2 on or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of the 2 3 date the petitions were filed. 2 4 LSB 1187HH 78 2 5 sc/cf/24
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