Section 64.900

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

Chapter 64

Effective - 07 Apr 1988, see footnote   

  64.900.  Termination or continuation of county planning, zoning — election. — 1.  Upon receipt of a petition signed by a number of voters in the county equal to five percent of the total vote cast in the county at the next preceding election for governor requesting the submission of the question of continuation or termination, the county commission in any county which has adopted a program of county planning, county zoning or county planning and zoning shall make an order to submit to the voters of the county the question to continue or to terminate the program.

  2.  The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:

Shall (county planning, county zoning, or county planning and zoning) be continued?
☐ YES	☐ NO

  3.  If a majority of those voting on the question vote yes for continuation, the program shall be continued unless and until terminated by a vote of the qualified voters voting thereon; if a majority of those voting on the question vote no for the termination of the program, the county commission shall declare the program terminated and shall discharge any commission appointed thereunder.  Any resolution, ordinance or regulation adopted under the program pursuant to the provisions of sections 64.800 to 64.905 shall be void and of no effect from and after the termination of the program as provided in this section.

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(L. 1965 p. 178 § 21, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1988 H.B. 923)

Effective 4-07-88