4.9.400 Initiation Procedures.
A. An annexation proposal for the contiguous territory proposed to be annexed may be initiated by petition in compliance with one of the following initiation procedures:
1. All of the owners of land in the contiguous territory proposed to be annexed and not less than 50 percent of the electors, if any, residing in the territory, consent in writing to the annexation of their land in the territory and file a statement of their consent with the City;
2. A majority of the electors registered in the contiguous territory proposed to be annexed consent in writing to the annexation and the owners of more than half of the land in that territory consent in writing to the annexation of their land and those owners and electors file a statement of their consent with the City; or
3. More than half the owners of land in the contiguous territory proposed to be annexed, who also own more than half the land in the contiguous territory and of real property therein representing more than half the assessed value of all real property in the contiguous territory, consent in writing to the annexation of their land in the territory and file a statement of their consent with the City.
B. Statements of consent to annexation which are filed within any one-year period are effective and are deemed to be submitted with the petition required in subsection (A) of this section, unless a separate written agreement waiving the one-year period or prescribing some other period of time has been entered into between an owner of land or an elector and the City.
C. An annexation proposal may be initiated by City Council resolution. The Council may terminate proceedings under this section at any time.
D. An annexation proposal may be initiated pursuant to the State law health hazard abatement annexation process. [Ord. NS-2302, 2018]