General Municipal Law 702 — Legislation

Legislation Search OpenLegislation Statutes Search Term Search icon Search previous SECTION 701 Definitions up ARTICLE 17 Municipal Annexation Law next SECTION 703 Petition by residents or property owners to initiate annexation of territory Viewing most recent revision (from 2014-09-22) View historical revision as of: -- Choose a Date -- 2014-09-22 Share Facebook Email SECTION 702 Legislative intent General Municipal (GMU) CHAPTER 24, ARTICLE 17 § 702. Legislative intent. It is the intention of the legislature by the enactment of this article to provide a municipal annexation law pursuant to the provisions of the bill of rights for local governments in subdivision (d) of section one of article nine of the constitution, which provisions specify basic prerequisites to the annexation of territory from one local government to another including (1) the consent of the people, if any, of a territory proposed to be annexed and (2) the consent of the governing board of each local government, the area of which is affected, upon the basis of its determination that the annexation is in the over-all public interest, and which provisions require the legislature to provide, where such consent of a governing board is not granted, for adjudication and determination, on the law and the facts, in a proceeding initiated in the supreme court, of the issue of whether the annexation is in the over-all public interest.