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ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Fifth Legislature, First Regular Session

 

AMENDED

FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1336

 

vehicle impoundment; exceptions; storage charges.

(NOW: annexation; unincorporated territory; applicability)  

                      As passed by the Senate, S.B. 1336 increased, from $15 to $25, the daily storage fee for an immobilized or impounded vehicle, and modified requirements and exemptions relating to the removal and immobilization or impoundment of vehicles.

                      The House of Representatives adopted a strike-everything amendment that does the following:

Purpose

An emergency measure that exempts municipal annexations which were approved by the State Selection Board prior to August 25, 2020, from the prohibition on a municipal annexation resulting in territory that is completely surrounded by the annexing city or town or a combination of the city or town and other cities or towns.

Background

                      A city or town may extend or increase the corporate limits of the city or town by annexing contiguous territory. To be considered contiguous and proper for annexation, a territory must: 1)  adjoin the exterior boundary of the annexing city or town for at least 300 feet; 2) be at least 200 feet wide at all points; and 3) have a distance between the location where the annexed territory adjoins the annexing city or town and the farthest point of the annexed territory that is no more than twice the maximum width of the annexed territory. A city or town may not annex territory if it would result in an unincorporated territory that is completely surrounded by the annexing city or town or a combination of other cities or towns (A.R.S.   9-471).

                      The State Selection Board consists of the Governor, the Attorney General and the State Treasurer and must do all things necessary to comply with Arizona and federal laws in securing title to the lands granted to Arizona in quantity or as indemnity by the enabling act, or to any other lands which may be granted to the state. If state land is included in a proposed corporate limit of a municipality, the selection board may render a determination approving or rejecting the inclusion of state land in the proposed corporate limit at request of the State Land Commissioner (A.R.S.   37-202).

There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.

Provisions

1.   Exempts municipal annexations which were approved by the State Selection Board prior to August 25, 2020, from the prohibition on a municipal annexation resulting in territory that is completely surrounded by the annexing city or town or a combination of the city or town and other cities or towns.

2.   Contains an emergency clause.

3.   Makes technical changes.

4.   Becomes effective on the signature of the Governor, if the emergency clause is enacted.

Amendments Adopted by the House of Representatives

  Adopted the strike-everything amendment relating to annexation.

House Action

TRANS                     3/11/21           W/D                      

GE                                     3/17/21           DPA/SE           13-0-0-0

3^rd Read                   3/31/21                                                   57-1-2

Prepared by Senate Research

April 1, 2021

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