9-471.03

9-471.03. Return of certain land to county; procedures

A. Notwithstanding any other law, territory may be deannexed, severed and returned to the county by a city or town if the territory is a county owned park, a park operated on public lands by a county as part of a management agreement or land owned by a flood control district.

B. The governing body of a city or town that intends to return the territory to the county shall set forth by ordinance the legal description of the territory and shall declare the deannexation and return of the territory contingent on the fulfillment of the conditions of this section.

C. The board of supervisors of the county that intends to receive the returned territory shall set forth by ordinance the legal description of the territory and shall declare the return of the territory contingent on fulfillment of the conditions of this section.

D. The board of supervisors shall set a public hearing not less than thirty nor more than sixty days after the date the ordinance is filed. On the holding of the public hearing, the board of supervisors may order that the territory be returned as specified in the ordinance authorized by the city or town.