§ 776 — Public hearings on proposed dissolution plan

§ 776. Public hearings on proposed dissolution plan. 1. The governing\nbody of the local government entity to be dissolved shall set a time and\nplace or places for one or more public hearings on the proposed\ndissolution plan. The hearing or hearings shall be held no less than\nthirty-five days and no more than ninety days after commencement of\ndissolution proceedings pursuant to section seven hundred seventy-four\nof this title. Any interested person shall be given a reasonable\nopportunity to be heard on any aspect of the proposed dissolution.\n 2. The public hearing or hearings shall be held on notice of at least\nten days, but not more than twenty days, published in a newspaper or\nnewspapers having general circulation within the local government entity\nto be dissolved and displayed on a website maintained by the entity or\notherwise on a website maintained by the village, town and/or county in\nwhich the entity is located. The notice of the hearing or hearings shall\nprovide a descriptive summary of the proposed dissolution plan and a\nreference to the public place or places within the entity where a copy\nof such plan may be examined.\n 3. After completion of the final hearing, the governing body of the\nlocal government entity to be dissolved may amend the proposed\ndissolution plan, provided that the amended version complies with the\nprovisions of subdivision two of section seven hundred seventy-four of\nthis title and is publicized pursuant to subdivision four of this\nsection, and/or approve a final version of the dissolution plan, or\ndecline to proceed further with dissolution proceedings. Any approval by\nthe governing body of a final version of the dissolution plan must occur\nwithin one hundred eighty days of the final hearing.\n 4. No later than five business days after amending the proposed\ndissolution plan, the governing body of the entity to be dissolved\nshall:\n (a) cause a copy of the amended version of the proposed dissolution\nplan, along with a descriptive summary thereof, to be displayed and\nreadily accessible to the public for inspection in a public place or\nplaces within the entity; and\n (b) cause the amended version of the proposed dissolution plan, along\nwith a descriptive summary thereof and a reference to the public place\nor places within the entity where a copy thereof may be examined, to be\ndisplayed on a website maintained by the entity or otherwise on a\nwebsite maintained by the village, town and/or county in which the\nentity is located.\n