SECTIONS 4905-4911

4905.  Any portion of a district that will not be benefited byremaining in the district may be excluded as provided in thisarticle.4906.  A petition to exclude territory shall be signed by 50 or morefreeholders in the portion proposed to be excluded from thedistrict, or by a majority of the freeholders, if there are less thanone hundred freeholders in the portion proposed to be excluded. Thepetition shall request the exclusion of that territory from thedistrict on the ground that it will not be benefited by remaining inthe district.4906.1.  As an alternative to the procedure outlined in Section4906, the board may by resolution entered in its minutes fix a timefor a hearing on the question of the exclusion of any portion of adistrict which will not be benefited by remaining in the district.The time fixed for the hearing shall not be less than 15 or more than30 days from and after passage of the resolution.4907.  Upon receiving a petition to exclude territory the boardshall fix a time for hearing it and for hearing protests to thecontinuance of the remaining territory as a district. The time ofhearing shall not be less than fifteen nor more than thirty daysafter the receipt of the petition.4908.  At least ten days prior to the time fixed, the board shallpublish a notice of the hearing by one insertion in the newspapercirculated in the district that the board deems most likely to givenotice to the district's inhabitants of the proposed exclusion.4909.  Any person interested may appear at the hearing and object tothe exclusion of the territory from the district, or may object tothe continuance of the remaining territory as a district, and theboard shall consider all objections and shall pass upon them.4910.  If the board finds that the territory proposed to be excludedwill not be benefited by remaining in the district, and that theterritory not proposed to be excluded will be benefited by continuingas a district, it shall by resolution declare the districtre-established excluding therefrom the territory found not benefitedby remaining in the district.4911.  Upon the exclusion of any territory from the district allproperty acquired for the district shall remain vested in the countyand be used for the purposes of the district.