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Municipal annexation is the legal process by which a city or other municipality acquires land as its jurisdictional territory (as opposed to simply owning the land the way individuals do). [1] The annexed land is typically not part of any other municipality.
A map of Los Angeles County with the city of Los Angeles in red, showing the Shoestring Strip annexation, which reaches south to the San Pedro area and the Port of Los Angeles. A "shoestring annexation" is a term used for an annexation by a city , town or other municipality in which it acquires new territory that is contiguous to the existing ...
The Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli was the conflict in which the territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli passed from Portuguese rule to independent rule, with Indian allegiance, in 1954. Dadra and Nagar Haveli were small undefended Portuguese overseas territories , part of Portuguese India ever since they were handed over by the Maratha ...
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Dec. 7—North Augusta City Council voted unanimously to approve the first reading of an ordinance to add almost 44 acres of land to the city. The parcel of land, located in Edgefield County off ...
The city government also entered into a settlement with the DeKalb County government to settle a dispute, paving the way for the annexation. [ 34 ] Due to the taxable revenue involved, there was a dispute over whether the area would remain in the DeKalb County School District or transition to Atlanta Public Schools . [ 35 ]
The proposed annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction era, initiated by United States President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, to annex Santo Domingo (as the Dominican Republic was commonly known) as a United States territory, with the promise of eventual statehood.
A city council veto over deannexations, introduced in 1977, was abolished in 1997. [31] The San Fernando Valley, the scene of deannexation efforts since the 1920s, lost a vote to separate from Los Angeles in 2002. [32] The deannexation vote won a bare majority of 50.7% in the Valley, but failed by a wide margin in the city as a whole.