37-1038. Dissolution of district
A. At any time after five years following the organization of a district, any twenty-five owners of land or not less than twenty per cent of the owners of land lying within the boundaries of the district may file a petition with the commissioner praying that the operations of the district be terminated and its existence discontinued. The commissioner shall conduct such public meetings and hearings upon the petition as may be necessary to assist in the consideration thereof.
B. Within sixty days after filing of the petition, the commissioner shall give notice of the holding of a referendum, and shall supervise the referendum and issue appropriate regulations governing the conduct thereof. The question shall be submitted by ballots upon which the propositions, " For terminating the existence of the (name of district)" and " against terminating the existence of the (name of district), " shall be printed, with a square after each proposition and an instruction to mark an X in the square following the proposition for which the voter desires to vote. Only owners of lands lying within the boundaries of the district shall be eligible to vote on the referendum. No informality in the conduct of the referendum or in any matter relating thereto shall invalidate the referendum or the result thereof, if due notice thereof has been given substantially as provided in this chapter and the referendum has been fairly conducted.
C. If sixty-five per cent of the landowners voting thereon vote to terminate the existence of a district, the commissioner shall advise the supervisors to conclude the affairs of the district. The supervisors shall dispose of all property belonging to the district at public auction and shall transmit the proceeds of the sale to the state treasurer for deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147.
D. The supervisors shall thereupon file a verified application with the secretary of state for discontinuance of the district, together with the certificate of the commissioner setting forth the determination of the commissioner that the continued operation of the district is not administratively feasible. The application shall recite that the property of the district has been disposed of and the proceeds paid over as provided in this section, and shall include a full accounting of the properties and the proceeds of the sale. The secretary of state shall issue to the supervisors a certificate of dissolution, and shall record the certificate in his office.
E. The commissioner shall not entertain a petition for the discontinuance of any district, nor conduct a referendum thereon, nor make any determination pursuant thereto, more than once in five years.
Structure Arizona Revised Statutes
§ 37-102 - State land department; powers and duties
§ 37-103 - Seal of state land department
§ 37-104 - Power to make and accept conveyances of real property
§ 37-106 - Federal reclamation trust fund
§ 37-108 - Court actions related to natural resources projects; remedies; account; definition
§ 37-109 - Alternative payment methods
§ 37-110 - Due diligence fund; exemption; reversion
§ 37-131 - State land commissioner; appointment; term; removal; compensation
§ 37-132.01 - Performance and restoration account; agreements with public and private entities
§ 37-133 - Decisions of commissioner; filing; notice to persons in interest
§ 37-172 - Resource analysis division; administrator; employees; compensation; state cartographer
§ 37-176 - Revolving fund; source of monies; claims
§ 37-177 - Arizona geographic information council
§ 37-178 - Geospatial data sharing
§ 37-201 - Examination and selection duties of commissioner
§ 37-204 - Advances for survey; repayment
§ 37-205 - Due diligence costs related to disposition of land
§ 37-212 - Classification of lands selected; reclassification
§ 37-214 - Board of appeals; approval of participation contracts; appeal
§ 37-215 - Appeal from decision of commissioner or board of appeals
§ 37-221 - Sale or lease of state lands for public education purposes
§ 37-232 - Application to purchase state lands or for reimbursement for improvements; deposit
§ 37-233 - Sale of state lands; restriction on sale of timber land; expense of sale
§ 37-234 - Sale of agricultural lands without application; limitation on sales of agricultural lands
§ 37-235 - Subdivision of state lands for sale; size and price limitations
§ 37-236 - Order by department of sale of lands; sale at auction; cancellation of sale; appeal
§ 37-236.01 - Sale of lands suitable for conservation purposes and other purposes at single auction
§ 37-237 - Notice required for sale of lands or lands and improvements; publication
§ 37-238 - Procedure for sale; report of sale
§ 37-239 - Participation contracts; planning and disposition proposals
§ 37-240 - Limitations on amount of land one person may purchase
§ 37-241 - Terms of sale of state land; payment; interest rate
§ 37-243 - Payment of rent in arrears; payment for use of land
§ 37-244 - Certificate of purchase; conditions
§ 37-245 - Rights conferred by certificate of purchase; recording of certificate
§ 37-249 - Actions to rescind sales
§ 37-250 - Replacement of lost or destroyed certificate of purchase
§ 37-251 - Issuance of patents for state lands
§ 37-252 - Taxation of lands sold
§ 37-254 - Cancellation of tax assessment on lands reverting to state
§ 37-256 - Application of provisions; east half of dry bed of Colorado river
§ 37-257 - Application for sale
§ 37-258 - Sale of rights in dry riverbed
§ 37-258.01 - Sale of development rights
§ 37-259 - Application as offer to settle dispute
§ 37-260 - Selling and administrative expenses
§ 37-261 - Authority to auction reversion rights
§ 37-281 - Lease of state lands for certain purposes without advertising; terms and conditions
§ 37-281.01 - Lease of state lands for grazing purposes; notice
§ 37-281.02 - Leasing state lands for commercial purposes for more than ten years
§ 37-281.04 - Default of lease of state land; assignment to cities and towns
§ 37-282.01 - Mass appraisals; notice; procedure; definitions
§ 37-283 - Subleases by grazing lessee; limitation upon grazing use; sublease surcharge
§ 37-284 - Conflicting short-term lease applications; preference rights
§ 37-286 - Execution of leases by land department; covenants; assignment of lease by lessee
§ 37-286.01 - Duty to exclude unauthorized livestock bond; damages; injunction
§ 37-287 - Reservation of rights in state land leases
§ 37-289 - Procedure on cancellation of lease; notice, default, hearing and appeal
§ 37-291 - Preferred rights to renewal of lease; exceptions; notification
§ 37-294 - Recovery of lands unlawfully held
§ 37-295 - Disposition of long-term commercial lease prepayments; prepayment fund
§ 37-301 - Procedure for protesting auctions
§ 37-312 - Nominating and classifying trust land as suitable for conservation purposes
§ 37-312.01 - Access to and use and enjoyment of private lands
§ 37-313 - Conservation lease of trust lands suitable for conservation; definition
§ 37-314 - Conveyance of title to trust lands suitable for conservation purposes
§ 37-317 - Subordination to constitution and enabling act
§ 37-321.01 - Rights to water used on state land; definition
§ 37-322.02 - Payment by purchaser or succeeding lessee for improvements on auctioned land
§ 37-322.04 - Accounting for improvements which become property of state
§ 37-323 - Permission required for construction on floodplains; criteria
§ 37-324 - Development or secondary plan; effect
§ 37-331.01 - Designation of state lands as urban lands on request
§ 37-331.02 - Urban land planning oversight committee
§ 37-332 - Urban lands; notice; hearing; requirements; classification; state general plan
§ 37-334 - Designation of lands; development or secondary plan; requirements; approval
§ 37-334.01 - Development plan for a master plan area
§ 37-335 - Sale or lease of state lands for development
§ 37-335.01 - Compensation and reimbursement of lessee upon cancellation of lease
§ 37-335.02 - Off-site improvement of urban lands
§ 37-335.04 - Liens not liabilities of state
§ 37-335.06 - Agreements to fund, install and reimburse costs of infrastructure on trust lands
§ 37-336 - Rules; review and approval by legislature; duties of commissioner
§ 37-338 - Selection of application for development planning permit or secondary permit
§ 37-341 - Preliminary investigation of projects for reclamation of state lands
§ 37-371 - Definition of acquired entitlement land
§ 37-372 - Payments to local governments with respect to acquired entitlement lands
§ 37-411 - Rights of entrymen under federal laws to possession and enjoyment of land
§ 37-412 - Limitation on claims; marking boundaries of claim; notice; recording of notice
§ 37-443 - Improvements as state property
§ 37-444 - Offset against rent due from trust beneficiaries; substituting trust designations
§ 37-461 - Grants of rights-of-way and sites for public uses
§ 37-481 - Conservation and administration of products of state lands
§ 37-483 - Program to remove vegetative natural products; hazardous vegetation; definition
§ 37-501 - Trespass on state lands; classification
§ 37-503 - Disposition of personal property unlawfully abandoned on state land
§ 37-521 - Permanent state school fund; composition; use
§ 37-522 - Universities land fund; composition; use
§ 37-523 - Normal schools land fund; composition; use
§ 37-525 - Other land funds; composition; use
§ 37-526 - Central Arizona project municipal and industrial repayment fund
§ 37-527 - Trust land management fund
§ 37-601 - Authorization to exchange
§ 37-603 - Method of exchange; appraisal
§ 37-604 - Exchange of state land; procedure; limitation and exceptions; definition
§ 37-604.01 - Exchange of state subsurface rights and interests
§ 37-605 - Title; reservations, restrictions and encumbrances
§ 37-606 - Protest; public hearing; judicial review
§ 37-607 - Method of exchange; valuation
§ 37-608 - Supplemental authority
§ 37-609 - Exchange of sovereign lands
§ 37-610 - Disposition of surplus floodplain lands
§ 37-611 - Acquisition of lands by United States for penal purposes
§ 37-613 - Power of state to serve process upon land ceded United States for penal purposes
§ 37-615 - Exchange of road rights-of-way on state land; procedure; limitation and exceptions
§ 37-616 - Protest; public hearing; judicial review
§ 37-617 - Method of exchange; valuation
§ 37-618 - Supplemental authority
§ 37-620.01 - Concurrent jurisdiction over veterans administration properties; acceptance
§ 37-620.02 - State consent to acquisition of land by the United States for exclusive jurisdiction
§ 37-620.03 - National monuments; catalog; attorney general; litigation
§ 37-620.11 - Enactment of compact
§ 37-620.21 - Holistic resource management program
§ 37-620.31 - Arizona resource advisory council; membership; duties; report
§ 37-701 - Acceptance of Carey land acts; state agency
§ 37-704 - Contract; contents; bond of contractor
§ 37-708 - Water rights appurtenant to lands; lien; foreclosure and redemption
§ 37-709 - Maps of project; right of easement reserved
§ 37-710 - Reservation of mineral rights in school lands sold
§ 37-723 - Distribution of money received from United States; appropriations to counties
§ 37-724 - Receipts from lease of public lands
§ 37-725 - Receipts from grazing district fees; district treasurer; duties
§ 37-726 - Expenditure of grazing fees of district; purposes authorized
§ 37-801 - Duty to disclose names of persons having a beneficial interest in real property
§ 37-803 - Disposition of real property by state agency
§ 37-804 - Payment of outstanding taxes, penalties and interest on acquiring property
§ 37-902 - Public lands; public policy; state land department
§ 37-903 - State land commissioner; powers; duties
§ 37-905 - Appeal of commissioner's decision; board of review; procedures; decision; further appeal
§ 37-906 - Public lands; disposal; use; written authorization required
§ 37-907 - Federal lands acquired without legislative consent; placement on tax rolls
§ 37-908 - Powers and duties of attorney general
§ 37-909 - State payments to counties
§ 37-931 - Claims of right-of-way under revised statute 2477
§ 37-1001 - Declaration of policy
§ 37-1011 - Division of natural resource conservation
§ 37-1012 - State natural resource conservation commissioner
§ 37-1013 - Powers and duties of commissioner
§ 37-1014 - State financial assistance; application; criteria
§ 37-1015 - Environmental special plate fund; distribution
§ 37-1031 - Petition for creation of district
§ 37-1032 - Hearing on petition; notice
§ 37-1033 - Determination by commissioner
§ 37-1034 - Referendum; election of supervisors
§ 37-1035 - Proclamation of result of referendum and election; terms of supervisors
§ 37-1036 - Proceedings to organize district; certificate of organization
§ 37-1037 - Addition of territory
§ 37-1038 - Dissolution of district
§ 37-1039 - Status following dissolution
§ 37-1040 - Change in boundaries; combination or division of districts; change in name of districts
§ 37-1051 - District supervisors; term of office; biennial election
§ 37-1052 - Organization of supervisors; vacancies
§ 37-1053 - Powers and duties of supervisors
§ 37-1054 - Powers of district
§ 37-1055 - Limitation of powers
§ 37-1056 - Cooperation between districts
§ 37-1057 - Cooperation by state agencies
§ 37-1121 - Arizona navigable stream adjudication commission
§ 37-1122 - General powers and duties of the commission
§ 37-1123 - Receiving and compiling evidence and records
§ 37-1124 - Compiling evidence and records by department
§ 37-1128 - Determination of navigability
§ 37-1131 - Notice to landowners; quiet title action
§ 37-1132 - Refunds to record title owners
§ 37-1151 - Petition to release public trust status
§ 37-1152 - Auction and sale of released public trust lands
§ 37-1153 - Permit to use public trust lands
§ 37-1154 - Public improvements in beds of navigable watercourses; definition
§ 37-1155 - Prior use of public trust lands
§ 37-1156 - Riparian trust fund; acquisition and management of riparian lands
§ 37-1201 - Declaration of policy
§ 37-1221 - Military airport land exchange section; purpose; employees; compensation
§ 37-1222 - Military airport land exchange proposal application; agreement
§ 37-1223 - Powers and duties of the section; limitations
§ 37-1224 - Military airport land exchange fund
§ 37-1303 - Suppression of wildfires; powers and duties of state forester; entry on private lands
§ 37-1304 - Forestry administrative districts; equipment and personnel
§ 37-1306 - Cooperative forestry fund; purpose; exemption
§ 37-1309 - Nonnative vegetation species eradication fund; department duties; grants; annual report
§ 37-1310 - Emergency medical services on federal lands; payment; requirements; definition
§ 37-1361 - Enactment of compact
§ 37-1381 - Office of the state fire marshal; purpose; assistant director; qualifications
§ 37-1382 - Deputy fire marshals and assistants; appointment; duties; recovery of costs
§ 37-1383 - Powers and duties; arson investigators
§ 37-1384 - Inspection; consent; search warrant
§ 37-1385 - School protection; definition
§ 37-1386 - Construction of article; hazardous materials; electronic filing
§ 37-1387 - Arson detection reward fund; administration; purpose; receipts and disbursements
§ 37-1388 - Fire protection systems; definitions
§ 37-1389 - Substitute refrigerants; approval by administrator
§ 37-1390 - Safety standards in fire training
§ 37-1391 - Cease and desist order; law enforcement procedures; violation; civil penalty
§ 37-1402 - Test method and performance standard; civil penalty; reports
§ 37-1403 - Certification; product change; fee
§ 37-1404 - Markings; requirements; office of the state fire marshal approval
§ 37-1405 - Civil penalties; seizure
§ 37-1406 - Implementation; rulemaking; inspection of cigarettes; definitions
§ 37-1408 - Sale outside of state
§ 37-1421 - Definition of trampoline court
§ 37-1423 - Registration; renewal
§ 37-1424 - Trampoline court owners and operators; requirements; denial of entry; rules