(1) Ensure sound urban development and accommodation to growth.
(2) Establish uniform legislative standards throughout the state for the adjustment of municipal boundaries.
(3) Ensure the efficient provision of urban services to areas that become urban in character.
(4) Ensure that areas are not annexed unless municipal services can be provided to those areas.
History.—s. 1, ch. 74-190.
Structure Florida Statutes
Chapter 171 - Local Government Boundaries
Part I - Municipal Annexation or Contraction (Ss. 171.011-171.094)
171.022 - Preemption; effect on special laws.
171.0413 - Annexation procedures.
171.042 - Prerequisites to annexation.
171.043 - Character of the area to be annexed.
171.044 - Voluntary annexation.
171.045 - Annexation limited to a single county.
171.046 - Annexation of enclaves.
171.051 - Contraction procedures.
171.052 - Criteria for contraction of municipal boundaries.
171.061 - Apportionment of debts and taxes in annexations or contractions.
171.062 - Effects of annexations or contractions.
171.071 - Effect in Miami-Dade County.
171.081 - Appeal on annexation or contraction.
171.093 - Municipal annexation within independent special districts.