80-1111. Same; determination by board of county commissioners; resolution of intent; public hearings; petition opposing disorganization; resolution disorganizing township. Whenever the board of county commissioners of any such county shall determine that it is in the best interests of the inhabitants of any township or townships located within such county to disorganize the same, such board shall adopt a resolution stating its intentions to disorganize such township or townships and the attachment of the territory of the same to another township or townships within the county. Such resolution shall fix a time, which shall be not more than 40 days after the date of the last publication of such resolution, and a place, within such township or townships or at such other place within such county as shall be designated by the board of county commissioners, for the holding of a hearing or hearings upon the question of disorganizing such township or townships. Such resolution shall also contain a statement that unless a petition, signed by a majority of the electors of any township proposed to be disorganized opposing the disorganization of such township, is filed in the office of the county clerk within 30 days after the date of the last publication of such resolution, such township or townships will be disorganized. Such resolution shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the township or townships proposed to be disorganized and a copy thereof sent to the clerk of the township board of such township or townships.

If a petition in opposition is not filed in compliance with the provisions of this section, then the board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution disorganizing such township, attaching the same or portions thereof as herein provided and make such order or orders as are authorized by this act.

History: L. 1969, ch. 471, § 2; L. 2008, ch. 163, § 33; July 1.