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Code · Kentucky · Kentucky Revised Statutes

81A.470 Map and certified copy of ordinance that changed city's boundaries to be

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recorded -- Preparation of map and description -- Taxation of residents or
property in new territory by annexing city prohibited prior to compliance.
(1)Within sixty
(60)days of the enlargement or reduction of a city's boundaries, the
city shall cause to be recorded in the office of the Secretary of State:
(a)A duly certified paper or electronic copy of the final ordinance that changed
the city's boundaries;
(b)A map and a description prepared by a professional land surveyor depicting
the parcel annexed, transferred, or severed as a closed geometric figure on a
plat annotated with bearings and distances or sufficient curve data to describe
each line. The professional land surveyor shall clearly state on the documents
the location of the existing municipal boundary, any physical feature with
which the proposed municipal boundary coincides, and a statement of the
recorded deeds, plats, right-of-way plans, or other resources used to develop
the documents depicting the municipal boundary, in paper or electronic form;
and
(c)An electronic file containing a closed geometric figure depicting the territory
being added or removed that is referenced to a Kentucky State Plane
Coordinate System zone in any one
(1)of the following formats:
1. AutoDesk AutoCAD DWG or DXF;
2. Bentley MicroStation DGN; or
3. ESRI ArcGIS Shapefile.
If the electronic file is attached to an e-mail communication, the e-mail and all
files attached to that e-mail communication cumulatively shall not exceed
fifteen
(15)megabytes in size.
(2)No city which has annexed unincorporated or accepted transfer of incorporated
territory may levy any tax upon the residents or property within the annexed or
transferred area until the city has complied with the provisions of subsection
(1)of
this section, and of KRS 81A.475.
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