REFERENCE TITLE: municipal annexation; size; exception

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-first Legislature Second Regular Session 2014

HB 2126

Introduced by Representatives Pratt: Shope

 

AN ACT

 

Amending title 9, chapter 4, article 7, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 9-471.05; relating to municipal annexation.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 9, chapter 4, article 7, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 9-471.05, to read:

START_STATUTE9-471.05.  Municipal annexation; size; exception

Notwithstanding section 9‑471, subsection H, for the purposes of annexation, a territory is considered contiguous for the purposes of section 9‑471, subsection A, if:

1.  The territory adjoins the exterior boundary of the annexing city or town for at least three hundred feet.

2.  Ninety-five per cent of the territory is at least two hundred feet in width, excluding rights‑of‑way and roadways.

3.  The distance from the existing boundary of the annexing city or town where it adjoins the annexed territory to the furthest point of the annexed territory from that boundary is no more than twice the maximum width of the annexed territory. END_STATUTE