00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 133                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to regulations of the Local Boundary Commission to provide standards                                   
02 and procedures for municipal incorporation, reclassification, dissolution, and certain                                  
03 municipal boundary changes; and providing for an effective date."                                                       
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1.  AS 44.33.812(a) is amended to read:                                                                  
06            (a)  The Local Boundary Commission shall                                                                     
07                 (1)  make studies of local government boundary problems;                                                
08                 (2)  adopt regulations providing standards and procedures for municipal                                 
09       incorporation, annexation, detachment, merger, consolidation, reclassification, and                               
10       dissolution; standards and procedures provided for under this paragraph are                                   
11       subject to other statutes;                                                                                    
12                 (3)  consider a local government boundary change requested of it by the                                 
13       legislature, the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development,                                   
14       or a political subdivision of the state; and                                                                      

01                 (4)  develop standards and procedures for the extension of services and                                 
02       ordinances of incorporated cities into contiguous areas for limited purposes upon                                 
03       majority approval of the voters of the contiguous area to be annexed and prepare                                  
04       transition schedules and prorated tax mill levies as well as standards for participation                          
05       by voters of these contiguous areas in the affairs of the incorporated cities furnishing                          
06       services.                                                                                                         
07    * Sec. 2.  The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                         
08 read:                                                                                                                   
09       APPLICABILITY.  A municipal incorporation, annexation, detachment, merger,                                        
10 consolidation, reclassification, or dissolution proposal that has not taken effect on or before                         
11 the effective date of this Act and that has been initiated or considered under regulations that                         
12 do not meet the requirements of AS 44.33.812(a)(2), as amended in sec. 1 of this Act, is void.                          
13 The proposal may be initiated again under regulations that do meet the requirements of                                  
14 AS 44.33.812(a)(2).                                                                                                     
15    * Sec. 3.  This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).