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Committee approves cleanup to annexation law removing railroad consent in narrow cases
Summary
House Bill 10 58, amended to remove subsections A and B and to clarify that municipalities cannot annex railroad track or right-of-way itself, passed the Local Government committee 11-0 after testimony from agricultural, municipal and railroad representatives.
The Local Government committee passed House Bill 10 58 as amended, eliminating a requirement that municipalities obtain railroad consent when property adjacent to a municipality is separated only by railroad tracks or right-of-way.
Representative Stuart Wall (presenting the amended bill) told the committee the measure does not change ownership of railroad right-of-way or track and does not alter other annexation rules; it simply…
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