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H.B. 540 Municipal Incorporation Modifications (2025)

Did not passWritten by Rep. Mike L. Kohler · carried in the Senate by Sen. Ronald M. Winterton

  1. Introduced
  2. House committee
  3. House vote
  4. Senate committee
  5. Senate vote (stopped here)
  6. Signed into law

What this bill does

The bill stops anyone from starting a new request to incorporate an area as a preliminary municipality after February 15, 2025, though requests filed on or before that date may continue. It also bars preliminary municipalities from annexing unincorporated land, bars cities from annexing areas included in an incorporation request, and requires landowners to pay the county in full for damage to county property before a preliminary municipality can become a town.

Plain-English summary written by AI from the official description. Check the official text below.

Official description
  • provides that:
  • a person may not apply to incorporate an area as a preliminary municipality after February 15, 2025
  • a person who applies to incorporate an area as a preliminary municipality by filing a feasibility request on or before February 15, 2025, may proceed in accordance with Title 10, Chapter 2a, Part 5, Incorporation of a Preliminary Municipality, after February 15, 2025
  • a preliminary municipality may not annex an unincorporated area
  • a municipality may not annex an area if the area was included in a feasibility request to incorporate the area into a preliminary municipality
  • requires:
  • a proposed preliminary municipality to agree that initial landowners will fully compensate the county for damages to county property or infrastructure before the preliminary municipality can transition into a town
  • a preliminary municipality located in the fourth through sixth class to comply with terms, conditions, or restrictions that were established in a development agreement between the initial landowners and the county before the feasibility request was filed
  • a preliminary municipality to comply with county standards for infrastructure
  • that a petition to transition a preliminary municipality into a town shall certify that damages to county property or infrastructure have been paid in full
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