If a city fails to provide municipal services to territory involuntarily annexed, according to the plan filed pursuant to section 368.11, within three years after city taxes are imposed in the annexed territory, the city development board shall initiate proceedings to sever the annexed territory from the city. However, a city may appeal to the board for an additional three years to provide municipal services if good cause is shown. A petition for severance filed pursuant to this section shall be filed and acted upon in the same manner as a petition under section 368.11. For purposes of this section, "municipal services" means services selected by a landowner to be provided by the city, including, but not limited to, water supply, sewage disposal, street and road maintenance, and police and fire protection, if the provision of such services is within the legal authority of the annexing city.
2002 Acts, ch 1132, § 10, 11; 2002 Acts, ch 1175, §32
Applicability of section; 2002 Acts, ch 1132, § 11
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