CHAPTER NUMBER: 678
File Code: Municipal Corporations
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 534/97 - CGM
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 317
- Sponsored By:
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Delegates Conroy, Dembrow, Faulkner, Getty, Hubbard, Mandel,
Morgan, Palumbo, Patterson, Pitkin, Rudolph,
Snodgrass, Benson, Clagett, DeCarlo, and
Kagan
- Entitled:
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Municipal Corporations - Incorporation Process
Altering the process by which a group of at least 300 residents of an
unincorporated area may become a municipal corporation; requiring an
organizing community to obtain the minimum number of required
signatures on a petition to incorporate within 18 months; requiring a
county governing body to appoint a county liaison after verifying a
petition to incorporate; requiring an organizing committee to hold a
public meeting and present a specified report to a county governing
body within 90 days of verification of a petition to incorporate; etc.
House Action
- 1/23
- First Reading Commerce and Government Matters
- 1/28
- Hearing 2/5 at 1:15 p.m.
- 2/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Commerce and Government Matters
- 2/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/20
- Third Reading Passed (123-9)
- 4/2
- Return Passed
- 5/21
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 678
Senate Action
- 2/23
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 4/3
- Favorable Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 4/6
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/7
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
- Delegate Virginia P. Clagett, District 30
- Delegate Diane DeCarlo, District 6
- Delegate Dana Lee Dembrow, District 20
- Delegate Patricia Anne Faulkner, District 14A
- Delegate Joseph M. Getty, District 5
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate Cheryl C. Kagan, District 17
- Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
- Delegate John S. Morgan, District 13B
- Delegate Richard A. Palumbo, District 22A
- Delegate Obie Patterson, District 26
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 35B
- Delegate Louise V. Snodgrass, District 3
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ATTORNEY GENERAL
- CHARTERS
- COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
- COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
- COUNTY COUNCILS
- ELECTIONS -see also- BALLOTS; CAMPAIGN FINANCING; VOTING
- HEARINGS
- INCOME TAX
- MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
- PETITIONS
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- ZONING AND PLANNING
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 23A Corporations - Municipal
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- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 306066/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 17, 1998 at:
10:11 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- February 20, 1998: Third Reading Passed (123-9)
- Senate
- April 7, 1998: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
