173.795 Annexation of counties to district.

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Counties outside of any existing district, and contiguous thereto, may be annexed to the district in the following manner:

(1)Upon filing with the fiscal court of a duly certified petition of fifty-one percent

(51%) of the duly qualified voters voting at the last general election, the fiscal court

of each county in the district and each county proposed to be annexed shall adopt a

resolution annexing the territory to the district. A certified copy of the order of the

fiscal court shall be filed with the county clerk within the next thirty

(30)days.

(2)The petition shall be in substantially the following form: "The following duly

qualified voters of (insert name of county or counties) petition their respective fiscal

courts to annex the following described territory (here describe the territory) to the

(name district) public library district with the authority to levy an ad valorem tax of

(state exact amount) on each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of property subject

to local taxation in the above stated territory."