___________________ moved that HB 1119 be amended as follows:
" Section 1. That § 9-3-1 be amended to read:
9-3-1. No municipality shall be incorporated which contains less than one hundred legal residents
or less than thirty voters. A municipality may not be incorporated unless it contains as least one
hundred legal residents and at least forty-five registered voters. For the purposes of this section, a
person is a legal resident in the proposed municipality if the person actually lives in the proposed
municipality for at least ninety days or is an active duty member of the armed forces whose home
of record is within the proposed municipality.
Section 2. That § 9-3-1.1 be amended to read:
9-3-1.1. No A municipality may not be incorporated if any part of such proposed municipality
lies within three miles of any point on the perimeter of the corporate limits of any incorporated
municipality, unless the incorporated municipality refuses or fails to annex a territory which is
contiguous to said incorporated municipality, and said contiguous territory has properly petitioned
said municipality to be annexed thereto, as provided by § 9-4-1. However, a proposed municipality
may be incorporated that is within three miles of an incorporated municipality if the territory to be
incorporated is in a different county and has a post office prior to incorporation.
Section 3. That § 9-3-2 be amended to read:
9-3-2. Persons making application for the organization of a proposed municipality shall first
cause an accurate survey and map to be made of the territory intended to be embraced within the
limits of such the proposed municipality showing the boundaries and area thereof and the accuracy
of which shall be verified by the affidavit of the surveyor.
Section 4. That § 9-3-3 be amended to read:
9-3-3. Any person making application for the organization of a proposed municipality shall cause
an accurate census to be taken of the landowners and the legal resident population of the proposed
municipality not more than thirty days previous to the time of presenting the application to the board
of county commissioners. The census shall exhibit the name of each landowner and person legal
resident residing in the proposed municipality and the number of persons belonging to each family
as of a certain date. The census shall be verified by the affidavit of the person taking the census.
Section 5. That § 9-3-4 be amended to read:
9-3-4. Such survey, map, and census when completed and verified shall be left at some
convenient place within such territory the proposed municipality for a period of not less than thirty
days for examination by those having an interest in such application.
Section 6. That § 9-3-5 be amended to read: