Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2167

Relating to local government, providing for annexation by mutual agreement
ARTICLE 1 - ANNEXATIONProviding for annexation by townships or municipalities of
unincorporated areas by joint resolution, specifying certain annexation plan
requirements; prescribing procedures, specifying prior notice requirements,
requiring opportunity for review of and comment on the annexation proposal,
requiring filing of the joint resolution with the secretary of state, the
commissioner of revenue, the state demographer, the county auditor, the
metropolitan council for annexations in the metropolitan area and persons
requesting notice, providing for the effective date of annexations; authorizing
and providing for annexation by ordinance as an alternative to formulating a
service contract under order of the pollution control agency (PCA), specifying
ordinance filing requirements and providing for the effective date ARTICLE 2 -
CONFORMING AMENDMENTSMaking conforming amendments to certain statutory
provisions relating to land within an agricultural preserve, pollution control
agency (PCA) cooperation by contract orders, precinct boundaries, the division
of cities into urban and rural service districts, taconite tax relief and
metropolitan areas fiscal disparities, the municipal board, community based or
comprehensive land use planning and aid to cooperating and combining local
government units; repealing certain provisions relating to annexation by order
of the municipal board or an arbitration panel and by ordinance (ra)