7-11-1107. Adoption of ordinance -- protest. (1) Upon receipt of a petition to enact an authorizing ordinance, the governing body of each jurisdiction may either adopt the substantive provisions of the petition as an ordinance or decline to adopt an authorizing ordinance for the district. The action on the petition is subject to the provisions of initiative and referendum as provided in 7-5-131 through 7-5-137.
     (2) (a) Upon adoption of a multijurisdictional service district authorizing ordinance, notice must be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the jurisdiction.
     (b) Each notice must set forth the text or substance of the ordinance and the text of subsection (2)(c).
     (c) Within 30 days of the publication of the notice, electors or property owners of each portion of the proposed district may submit written protests to the local government clerk. If more than 50% of the electors, or the owners of more than 50% of the taxable value of the property, in the affected portion of any one of the jurisdictions proposed for inclusion in the district protest the ordinance of that jurisdiction, the ordinance is void.

     History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 425, L. 1985.