67-4918. INCLUSION OF PROPERTY PETITIONED — HEARING — ORDER. The boundaries of any district organized under the provisions of this act may be changed in the manner herein prescribed, but the change of boundaries of the district shall not impair or affect its organization or its rights in or to property, or any of its rights or privileges whatsoever, except that no district organized prior to January 1, 1987, shall ever have the power to levy and collect property taxes, even though the boundaries of the district may be adjusted to reduce the population of the district to less than one hundred thousand (100,000); nor shall it affect or impair or discharge any contract, obligation, lien or charge for or upon which it might be liable or chargeable had any such change of boundaries not been made; and provided further, no auditorium district established after July 1, 2001, shall levy or impose a type of tax not authorized in the petition.
History:
[67-4918, added 1959, ch. 137, sec. 18, p. 299; am. 1987, ch. 70, sec. 11, p. 136; am. 2001, ch. 258, sec. 7, p. 931.]