AI-assisted research summary: Municipalities may withdraw from or join an authority, but they must follow notice, hearing, resolution, and filing steps, and withdrawal is limited if the authority has outstanding obligations.
1. One or more of the member municipalities may withdraw from the authority, except that a municipality shall not withdraw after any obligations have been incurred by the authority unless satisfactory provision has been made by the withdrawing municipality for the payment of its portion of the outstanding obligations. If an authority has been created pursuant to this chapter, a municipality which did not join in the original agreement may subsequently join the authority with the approval of the member municipalities. 2. A municipality wishing to withdraw from or to become a member of an existing authority shall signify its intention by resolution and shall publish the resolution at least one time in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality giving notice of a hearing to be held on the question of withdrawing or joining and its intention to withdraw or join. The resolution shall be published at least fourteen days prior to the date of the hearing. A withdrawing municipality shall state in the resolution how it intends to pay its portion of the outstanding obligations of the authority, if any. A joining municipality shall state in the resolution the information required in section 330A.6. A copy of the resolution shall be certified to the authority by the municipality at least fourteen days in advance of the hearing. The board shall by resolution indicate whether a satisfactory provision has been made for the payment of the outstanding obligations of the authority, as required under subsection 1. After the hearing and if the outstanding obligations of the authority have been adequately provided for by the municipality, the municipality may enact an ordinance to withdraw from or join the authority. 3. An application to withdraw or join shall be submitted to the authority and shall in all cases be executed by the proper officers of the withdrawing or incoming municipality under its municipal seal and accompanied by a certified copy of the authorizing ordinance, and shall be joined in by the proper officers of the governing body of the authority. 4. A municipality that joins initially or subsequently or withdraws shall file notice of such joining or withdrawal with the secretary of state and the county recorder in which such municipality is located. Upon its creation, the authority shall file with the secretary of state and with the county recorder wherein each municipality or part thereof is located a copy of the agreement creating the authority. [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §330A.7] 89 Acts, ch 182, §6