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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="4-406" title_number="4" title_name="In General" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Annexation">
  <level label="a">
    <text>After an annexation resolution is introduced, the chief executive and administrative officer of the municipality shall publish notice in accordance with the requirements of this section that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>briefly and accurately describes the proposed annexation and the applicable conditions and circumstances; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>specifies the date, time, and place that the legislative body sets for the public hearing on the proposed annexation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>After an annexation resolution is introduced, the chief executive or the administrative officer of the municipality shall notify commercial property owners in the area to be annexed of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>all personal property taxes and fees imposed by the municipality; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the date, time, and place that the legislative body sets for the public hearing on the proposed annexation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Public notice of the annexation resolution shall be published:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <level label="1">
          <text>at least four times; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>if the total area of the proposed annexation is 25 acres or less, at least two times;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at not less than weekly intervals; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the municipality and the area to be annexed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The public hearing shall be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>set no sooner than 15 days after the final required publication of the public notice; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>held in the municipality or the area to be annexed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Immediately after the first publication of the public notice, the municipality shall provide a copy of the public notice to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the governing body of the county in which the municipality is located; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any regional or State planning agency with jurisdiction in the county.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The county and any regional or State planning agency with jurisdiction in the county has the right to be heard before the public at the hearing on the proposed annexation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The public hearing may be rescheduled for or continued to a later date not more than 30 days after:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the date when the hearing was originally scheduled; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the date on which the hearing began but was not completed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the hearing is rescheduled or continued, public notice shall be published:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>at least 7 days before the date of the rescheduled or continued hearing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality and the area to be annexed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The public notice shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>briefly and accurately describe the area to be annexed; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>specify the date, time, and place of the rescheduled or continued public hearing.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>If a municipality is seeking to annex land that is located in a different legislative district than the legislative district in which the municipality or any part of the municipality is located, after the annexation resolution is introduced, the municipality shall provide written notice to the members of the General Assembly for the district in which the land is located and for the district to which the land is being annexed by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>electronic communication; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>United States Postal Service.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
