368.17 - WHEN APPROVAL BARRED.

        368.17  WHEN APPROVAL BARRED.         The committee may not approve:         1.  An incorporation unless it finds that the city to be      incorporated will be able to provide customary municipal services      within a reasonable time.         2.  A discontinuance or severance if the city to be discontinued      or the territory to be severed will be surrounded by one or more      cities unless a petition for annexation of the same area is also      filed and approved.         3.  A discontinuance or severance unless it finds that the county      or another city will be able to provide necessary municipal services      to the residents.         4.  An annexation unless the territory is adjoining the city to      which it will be annexed, and the committee finds that the city will      be able to provide to the territory substantial municipal services      and benefits not previously enjoyed by such territory, and that the      motive for annexation is not solely to increase revenues to the city.         5.  A consolidation unless the cities are contiguous.         6.  An incorporation of territory, any part of which is within two      miles of an existing city, unless a petition for annexation of      substantially the same territory to such city has been dismissed,      disapproved, or voted upon unfavorably within the last five years.         7.  A city development action which creates an island.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [R60, § 1043; C73, § 430, 431; C97, § 610, 611, 615; S13, § 615;      C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 5612--5614; C46, 50, § 362.26, 362.28,      362.29; C54, § 362.26; C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 362.1, 362.26; C75, 77,      79, 81, § 368.17] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         91 Acts, ch 187, §4; 92 Acts, ch 1174, §5         Referred to in § 368.3, 368.16, 368.20