DIGEST
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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP ORT DIGEST
HB 577 2015 Regular Session Jackson
Keyword and oneliner of the instrument as it left the House
MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to extension or contraction of corporate limits of municipalities by
means of petition and ordinance
Report adopts Senate amendments to:
1. Delete an exception to proposed law that authorizes a municipality that does not own the
land subject to a municipal annexation to challenge or otherwise seek to invalidate an
ordinance to enlarge the boundaries if the area to be annexed meets certain conditions.
Report amends the bill to:
1. Adds requirement that proposed law be given prospective application only.
Digest of the bill as proposed by the Conference Committee
Present law provides relative to annexation by municipalities. Authorizes the governing body of any
municipality other than the city of New Orleans to, by ordinance, enlarge the boundaries of the
municipality to include territory within which all of the land is owned by a state agency, political
subdivision, or public body. Provides that such annexation requires petition of the governing body
of the agency, political subdivision, or public body owning the land which is to be so included.
Proposed law retains present law and specifies that only the state agency, political subdivision, or
public body that owns the land subject to such a municipal annexation may challenge or otherwise
seek to invalidate an ordinance to enlarge the boundaries of the municipality. Also requires that
proposed law be given prospective application only.
(Adds R.S. 33:180(D))