Special districts-exclusion of property.

WORKING DRAFT
2012
STATE OF
WYOMING
12LSO-0291

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0101

Special districts-exclusion of property.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Ross and Representative(s) Illoway, Lockhart and Lubnau

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
special districts; providing for exclusion of property not benefited by the services of the district; repealing a sunset date; providing for continued levy of taxes for indebtedness;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 22
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29
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307 is amended to read:

22
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29
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307.

Change in boundaries of districts; exclusion of property from district.

Any owner of property that is subject to assessment and payment of tax by a special district, but who
,

is precluded by applicable state or federal law, rule or regulation from
using

at the time of
filing
the
petition
,
does not take, use or benefit from
the services provided by the district, may file with the board of county commissioners a petition praying that such lands be excluded from assessment by said district. Petitions shall describe the property which the petitioners desire to have excluded. Such petition must be accompanied by a deposit of money sufficient to pay all costs of the exclusion proceedings. The county commissioners shall cause a notice of filing of such petition to be published, which notice shall state the filing of such petition, the name of petitioners, description of the property mentioned in said petition, and the prayer of said petitioners; and it shall notify all persons interested to appear at the office of said board at the time named in said notice, showing cause in writing, if any they have, why said petition should not be granted. The board at the time and place mentioned in the notice, or at the times to which the hearing of said petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition and all objections thereto, presented in writing by any person showing cause why the prayer of the petition should not be granted. The filing by such petition shall be deemed and taken as an assent by each and all such petitioners to the exclusion from the district of the property mentioned in
the petition or any part thereof. The exclusion shall be allowed if an owner of assessed property
is precluded by applicable state or federal law, rule, or regulation from using

does not
at the time of
filing
the
peti
tion
take, use or benefit from
the services provided by the district.
This section shall be applicable only to petitions filed in accordance with the provisions of this section on or before March 31, 1999.

Real property excluded from a district pursuant to this section shall continue to be subject to the levy of taxes for the payment of the property’s proportionate share of indebtedness of the district’s general obligation bonds outstanding at the time of the exclusion.

Section 2.
This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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