12-3913.   Same; procedure; resolution, publication;election, when; effective date; initial mill levy of new district.(a) The resolution creating a consolidated fire district as providedby this act, shall be published at least once each week for two consecutiveweeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the area subject to the proposedconsolidation. If within 60 days following the last publication of theresolution, a petition in opposition thereto, signed by not less than 5% of theregistered voters residing within each of the two or more areas proposed forconsolidation is filed with the county election officer, the board shall orderan election to be called and held within the areas proposed to be consolidatedwithin 90 days after the filing of such petition in the manner provided for thecalling and holding of elections under the general bond law. If a majority ofthe electors voting at such election shall approve the consolidation of suchareas the board of county commissioners, by resolution, shall provide for theconsolidation of such areas and define the boundaries of the area asconsolidated. Any such consolidation shall be made prior to July 1 of any yearto take effect on January 1 of the succeeding year.

      (b)   Any resolution creating a consolidated fire district shall provide forthe dissolution or disorganization of the fire districts as they existed priorto the effective date of the creation of a consolidated fire district. Theresolution creating a consolidated fire district also shall fix the amount oftax, not to exceed 15 mills, that may be levied by the governing body of theconsolidated fire district.

      History:   L. 1996, ch. 226, § 4;L. 2008, ch. 163, § 17; July 1.