Enrolled HB 121: Relating to consolidating or abolishing certain road service areas in certain second class boroughs; and providing for an effective date.
00Enrolled HB 121 01 Relating to consolidating or abolishing certain road service areas in certain second class 02 boroughs; and providing for an effective date. 03 _______________ 04 * Section 1. AS 29.35.450(c) is amended to read: 05 (c) If voters reside within a service area that provides road, fire protection, or 06 parks and recreation services, abolishment of the service area is subject to approval by 07 the majority of the voters residing in the service area who vote on the question. A 08 service area that provides road, fire protection, or parks and recreation services in 09 which voters reside may not be abolished and replaced by a larger service area unless 10 that proposal is approved, separately, by a majority of the voters who vote on the 11 question residing in the existing service area and by a majority of the voters who vote 12 on the question residing in the area proposed to be included within the new service 13 area but outside of the existing service area. A service area that provides road, fire 14 protection, or parks and recreation services in which voters reside may not be altered
01 or combined with another service area unless that proposal is approved, separately, by 02 a majority of the voters who vote on the question and who reside in each of the service 03 areas or in the area outside of service areas that is affected by the proposal. This 04 subsection does not apply to a proposed change to a service area that provides fire 05 protection services that would result in increasing the number of parcels of land in the 06 service area or successor service area if the increase is not [NO] more than six percent 07 and would add not [NO] more than 1,000 residents. This subsection does not apply 08 in a second class borough to abolishment of a road service area or consolidation 09 of two or more road service areas if 10 (1) taxes have not been levied in the service area for road 11 maintenance or construction during the last 12 months and there is no balance in 12 any account available to pay for these road services for the service area; 13 (2) during the last 12 months, the service area board has not met 14 with a quorum present and in accordance with law; or 15 (3) there are no road maintenance contracts in effect for the 16 service area or the existing road maintenance contracts fail to provide for 17 minimum road standards required by law that are necessary to protect the 18 borough from civil liability. 19 * Sec. 2. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).